Research Catalog

Title

Japan : economic success and legal system / edited by Harald Baum.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Baum, Harald.
• Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung
• Conference on "Japan: Economic Success and Legal System" (1995 : Berlin, Germany)

Description

xx, 401 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai
• Commercial law > Japan > Congresses
• Justice, Administration of > Japan > Congresses
• Contracts > Japan > Congresses
• Business enterprises > Law and legislation > Japan > Congresses
• Trade regulation > Japan > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses (form)
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Proceedings of a conference held at the Japanese-German Center, Berlin, November 22-24, 1995.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Emulating Japan? / Harald Baum -- Pt. 1. Lawyers, Mediators, and Legal Culture -- Ch. 1. The Role of Lawyers in Japan / Dan Fenno Henderson -- Ch. 2. Judges and Mediators in Japan: The Administration as Motionless Mediator? / Toshiyuki Kono -- Ch. 3. Historical Trends of Civil Litigation in Japan, Arizona, Sweden, and Germany: Japanese Legal Culture in the Light of Judicial Statistics / Christian Wollschlager -- Pt. 2. Law and Contract in Japanese Business -- Ch. 4. Use and Non-Use of Contracts in Japanese Business Relations: A Comparative Analysis / Zentaro Kitagawa -- Ch. 5. Relational Contracting: Does Community Count? / John O. Haley -- Ch. 6. Law, Contract, and Society in Japan: A Personal View / Guntram Rahn -- Ch. 7. Contract Law and Practice in Japan: An Antipodean Perspective / Luke R. Nottage -- Pt. 3. Aspects of the Japanese Enterprise -- Ch. 8. Changes in the Japanese Enterprise Groups? / Eiji Takahashi -- Ch. 9. Shareholders in Japan: Attitudes, Conduct, Legal Rights, and their Enforcement / Masaru Hayakawa -- Ch. 10. Law as an Agent of Change? Governmental Efforts to Reduce Working Hours in Japan / Daniel H. Foote -- Pt. 4. The Bureaucracy in Japanese Economic and Legal Affairs -- Ch. 11. Finance Bureaucracy and the Regulation of Financial Markets in Japan / Hideki Kanda -- Ch. 12. Virtual Reality In Japan's Regulatory Agencies / E. B. Keehn -- Ch. 13. Bureaucracy and the Protection of National Interests in Japan: Exemplified for Intellectual Property and Competition Law / Christopher Heath -- Ch. 14. The "Old Boy" Network and Government-Business Relationships in Japan / Ulrike Schaede -- Pt. 5. Discussion and Concluding Remarks -- Ch. 15. Informality, Flexibility, and the Rule of Law: A Report of the Discussion / Dorte Liebrecht -- Ch. 16. Concluding Remarks / Peter Rodatz.

ISBN

311015160X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96045041^

OCLC

35657982

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library