Pages 430–472, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avaf021
Since the 1970s, comparative law scholars have studied “legal transplants”: legal institutions that emerged in one location and then were moved to (or forced upon) another. This research agenda offers little traction on one of today’s most pressing questions of global legal change.
Pages 384–429, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avaf001
This Article investigates the interaction between transplanted law and society after legal transplants, focusing on a case study of the changing meaning of geographical indications (GIs) after this legal concept was transplanted from Europe to China.
Pages 337–383, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avaf006
How do courts function in an environment of political polarization? This Article aims to gain insight into this question through a comparative case study of three countries—India, Brazil, and Israel—examining the challenges that political polarization posed to their supreme courts and the way each of them chose to respond to them.
Pages 279–335, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avaf009
Conventional wisdom pinpoints the origins of East Asia’s World War II redress movement in 1990, with the emergence of the “comfort women” issue and subsequent transnational litigation. This Article challenges that narrative by excavating a series of lawsuits, filed by Taiwanese citizens in Japanese courts from the 1970s.
Pages 236–278, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avaf011
In this Article, we look at how these texts have been employed by courts, regardless of—and often contrary to—their formal legal status and the political expectations of constitution-makers.
Pages 215–235, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avaf028
Constitutionalism “with adjectives” is now a common part of the comparative constitutional law vocabulary. But scholars often use the same adjectives in different ways, and suggest that different “constitutionalisms” are alternatives, when in fact they overlap in complex ways.
Pages 170–234, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avad040
When courts seek to strengthen their own institutional power, they often need to be strategic. In many fraught political contexts, judiciaries lack a history of asserting authority against powerful political actors.
Pages 109–169, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avae011
In 2010, the United Kingdom issued the world’s first stewardship code. Since then, stewardship codes have been issued in many of the world’s leading economies and now exist in twenty jurisdictions on six continents, with more jurisdictions considering adopting them.
Pages 75–108, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avae015
Tax administrations have long grappled with the question of how noncompliant taxpayers should be allowed to correct their tax affairs voluntarily.
Pages 33–74, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avae013
This Article develops a framework to analyze the laws that bear on working conditions in global value chains (GVCs), a production structure based on hierarchical international firm networks.