Institutional Competition between Common Law and Civil Law Theory and Policy /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schmiegelow, Michèle (Editor), Schmiegelow, Henrik (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Law.; Globalization.; Markets.; Law > Philosophy.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Law and economics.; Development economics.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Law and Economics.; Development Economics.; Emerging Markets/Globalization.; Fundamentals of Law.

This book addresses two countervailing challenges to theory and policy in law and economics. The first is the rise of legal origins theory, which denies the comparative law view of convergence between common law and civil law by the assertion of an economic superiority of common law. The second is t...