The paradox of legal harmonization

Public Choice

Volumn 132, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 367-400

  Carbonara, Emanuela ^a   Parisi, Francesco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Legal change; Legal harmonization; Legal transplantation; Transnational contracts

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547798582     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-007-9162-0     Document Type: Article

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