Adapting legal cultures / edited by David Nelken and Johannes Feest.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

part 1. Theorising legal adaptation -- Towards a sociology of legal adaptation / David Nelken -- What "legal transplants"? / Pierre Legrand -- Is there a logic of legal transplants? / Roger Cotterrell -- Some comments on Cotterrell and legal transplants / Lawrence Friedman -- State formation and legal change: on the impact of international politics / Alex Jettinghoff -- From globalisation of law to law under globalisation / Wolf Heydebrand -- part 2. Case-studies of legal adaptation -- The still-birth and re-birth of product liability in Japan / Luke Nottage -- The empty space of the modern in Japanese law discourse / Takao Tanase -- Comparative law and legal transplantation in South East Asia / Andrew Harding -- Marketisation, public service and universal service / Tony Prosser -- The import and export of law and legal institutions: international strategies in national palace wars / Yves Dezalay, Bryant Garth -- The Vultures fly east: the creation and globalisation of the distressed debt market / John Flood.