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“One Size Can Fit All” – On The Mass Production Of Legal Transplants, Ralf Michaels
“One Size Can Fit All” – On The Mass Production Of Legal Transplants, Ralf Michaels
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Law reformers like the World Bank sometimes suggest that optimal legal rules and institutions can be recognized and then be recommended for law reform in every country in the world. Comparative lawyers have long been skeptical of such views. They point out that both laws and social problems are context-specific. What works in one context may fail in another. Instead of “one size fits all,” they suggest tailormade solutions.
I challenge this view. Drawing on a comparison with IKEA’s global marketing strategy, I suggest that “one size fits all” can sometimes be not only a successful law reform strategy, but …
Reforming Labor Law For The New Century, Lance Liebman
Reforming Labor Law For The New Century, Lance Liebman
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The two articles that follow are the first published fruit of a conversation that was initiated in 1998 under the auspices of "Labor Law Reform for Developed Countries in the 21st Century," several years of conferences leading to the May 2000 Tokyo Conference of the International Industrial Relations Association. This project has had generous support from the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation and from the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law at Columbia Law School.
The participants have been labor law professors from Europe, Japan, and the United States. The group has focused its research and …