Power to the legal professionals: Is there an Americanization of European law?

Regulation and Governance

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 197-216

  Van Waarden, Frans ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adversarial legalism; Conflict resolution; Legal systems; Liberalization; Litigation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350110459     PISSN: 17485983     EISSN: 17485991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5991.2009.01056.x     Document Type: Article

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