03580nam 22006493u 450 991045478190332120210114071534.00-520-92469-X1-59734-858-9(CKB)111056485640928(EBL)224359(OCoLC)475931086(SSID)ssj0000235056(PQKBManifestationID)11202859(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000235056(PQKBWorkID)10246891(PQKB)10018970(MiAaPQ)EBC224359(EXLCZ)9911105648564092820130418d2000|||| u|| |engtxtccrRegulatory Encounters[electronic resource] Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial LegalismBerkeley University of California Press20001 online resource (447 p.)The California series in law, politics, and society Regulatory encountersDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-22287-3 Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1. How Much Do National Styles of Law Matter?; 2. Poles Apart; 3. Industrial Effluent Control in the United States and Japan; 4. Investigation and Remediation of Contaminated Manufacturing Sites in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands; 5. Siting Solid Waste Landfills; 6. The Air Pollution Permit Process for U.S. and German Automobile Assembly Plants; 7. Employee Termination Practices in the United States and Canada; 8. Credit Card Debt Collection and the Law9. Obtaining and Protecting Patents in the United States, Europe, and Japan 10. Licensing Biologics in Europe and the United States; 11. New Chemical Notification Laws in Japan, the United States, and the European Union; 12. The Consequences of Adversarial Legalism; List of Contributors; IndexThis work reports on a path-breaking study of how government regulation of business in the United States differs in practice from regulation in other economically advanced democracies.In each of ten in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume compare a particular multinational corporation's experience with parallel regulatory regimes in the United States and in Japan, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, and the European Union, noting precisely which regulatory precautions were actually implemented in each country.Adversary system (Law)International business enterprisesInternational business enterprises-- Law and legislation-- United StatesInternational business enterprisesLaw and legislationUnited StatesInternational business enterprisesLaw and legislationAdversary system (Law)Electronic books.Adversary system (Law).International business enterprises.International business enterprises-- Law and legislation-- United States.International business enterprisesLaw and legislationInternational business enterprisesLaw and legislationAdversary system (Law)343.7307346.73/066Axelrad Lee1963-912471Kagan Robert A143173AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910454781903321Regulatory Encounters2043724UNINA