LEADER 03547nam 22006373u 450 001 9910780081903321 005 20230422042348.0 010 $a0-520-92469-X 010 $a1-59734-858-9 035 $a(CKB)111056485640928 035 $a(EBL)224359 035 $a(OCoLC)475931086 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000235056 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11202859 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000235056 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10246891 035 $a(PQKB)10018970 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224359 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485640928 100 $a20130418d2000|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRegulatory encounters$b[electronic resource] $emultinational corporations and American adversarial legalism 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (447 p.) 225 0 $aThe California series in law, politics, and society Regulatory encounters 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-22287-3 327 $aPreliminaries; 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 Law 327 $a9. 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; Index 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aAdversary system (Law) 606 $aInternational business enterprises 606 $aInternational business enterprises-- Law and legislation-- United States 606 $aInternational business enterprises$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aInternational business enterprises$xLaw and legislation 606 $aAdversary system (Law) 615 4$aAdversary system (Law). 615 4$aInternational business enterprises. 615 4$aInternational business enterprises-- Law and legislation-- United States. 615 0$aInternational business enterprises$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aInternational business enterprises$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aAdversary system (Law) 676 $a343.7307 676 $a346.73/066 700 $aAxelrad$b Lee$f1963-$01530738 701 $aKagan$b Robert A$0143173 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780081903321 996 $aRegulatory encounters$93776003 997 $aUNINA