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Record Nr.

UNINA9910438344903321

Titolo

National legal systems and globalization : new role, continuing relevance / / Pierre Larouche, Peter Cserne, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

The Hague, : T.M.C. Asser Press, 2013

ISBN

1-283-86551-3

90-6704-885-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LarouchePierre

CsernePeter

Disciplina

320.9049

Soggetti

Law

Globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Convergence and divergence : the continuing relevance of national legal systems -- pt. II. New institutions, common principles -- pt. III. New models for national legal systems in a global world -- pt. IV. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

For the researchers involved in this book, the prospects of national law seemed less dire than is usually acknowledged. The project team shows that globalization, instead of threatening national legal systems, puts them in a new role and gives them continuing relevance. First of all, once one takes a more functional view of the law, based on law and economics and comparative law literature, harmonization or unification of national legal systems is no longer a foregone conclusion. Secondly, fundamental constitutional principles continue to bear in the era of multi-level and transnational governance: they become governance principles, divorced from specific institutional settings. Finally, looking beyond regulatory competition and comparative law, legal emulation provides a rich and fruitful model to explain the interplay between legal systems. This book explores these three themes, both at a theoretical level and in the light of specific examples. It sheds a new light on the fate of national legal systems, with a more optimistic outlook. Researchers and practitioners alike will experience how this research



project brings us a step forward in the understanding of the evolution of national legal systems in the globalization era.  The research for this book, in which a team of experts in comparative law and law and economics took part, was commissioned and funded by HiiL (The Hague, the Netherlands), as a project named Convergence and divergence of national legal systems: coping with the challenges of globalization. It was carried out at the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) of Tilburg University (the Netherlands) under the direction of Pierre Larouche.  Pierre Larouche is Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg University and a founding director of TILEC. Péter Cserne is now Senior Lecturer in law, University of Hull (United Kingdom) and an extramural fellow of TILEC.