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Trends In International Business Law: Towards A New Ethnocentricity?, Detlev F. Vagts
Trends In International Business Law: Towards A New Ethnocentricity?, Detlev F. Vagts
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
Many legal practitioners and academicians who are sensitive to changes within the area of international business law have sighted signals of a trend toward greater ethnocentricity in the United States. Whether such a trend exists is not an issue that can be disposed of categorically, for the signals must be interpreted in light of the institution in question and the sector of economic activity involved. Moreover, an accurate resolution of the issue requires a comparison of the current signals with those of previous periods. Indeed, the post-Smoot-Hawley Tariff era of the late 1930's and the older mercantilist epoch were periods …