Regulatory encounters : multinational corporations and American adversarial legalism

Regulatory encounters : multinational corporations and American adversarial legalism / edited by Robert A. Kagan and Lee Axelrad.

This 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 corporatio...

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Other Authors: Axelrad, Lee, 1963-, Kagan, Robert A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.
Series:California series in law, politics, and society ; 1.
Subjects:
International business enterprises > Law and legislation > United States.
International business enterprises > Law and legislation.
Adversary system (Law)
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
International business enterprises > Law and legislation
Internationale ondernemingen.
Rechtsstelsels.
Bewijslast.
Entreprises multinationales > Droit > Etats-Unis > Etudes comparatives.
Système accusatoire et système inquisitoire > Etats-Unis > Etudes comparatives.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • How much do national styles of law matter? / Robert A. Kagan
  • Poles apart : industrial waste management regulation and enforcement in the United States and Japan / Kazumasu Aoki and John W. Cioffi
  • Industrial effluent control in the United States and Japan / Kazumasu Aoki, Lee Axelrad, and Robert A. Kagan
  • Investigation and remediation of contaminated manufacturing sites in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands / Lee Axelrad.
  • Siting solid waste landfills : the permit process in California, Pennsylvania, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands / Holly Welles and Kirsten Engel
  • The air pollution permit process for U.S. and German automobile assembly plants / John P. Dwyer, Richard W. Brooks and Alan C. Marco
  • Employee termination practices in the United States and Canada / Laura Beth Nielsen
  • Credit card debt collection and the law : Germany and the United States / Charles Ruhlin
  • Obtaining and protecting patents in the United States, Europe, and Japan / Deepak Somaya.
  • Licensing biologics in Europe and the United States / Martine Kraus
  • New chemical notification laws in Japan, the United States, and the European Union / Lori A. Johnson, Tatsuya Fujie, and Marius Aalders
  • The consequences of adversarial legalism / Robert A. Kagan.
  • Union / Lori A. Johnson, Tatsuya Fujie, and Marius Aalders
  • The consequences of adversarial legalism / Robert A. Kagan.

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