Law for sale a philosophical critique of regulatory competition
Dissertation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2016
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Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford University Press
2019
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Dissertation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2016 Cover; LAW FOR SALE; Copyright; CONTENTS; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation; Introduction; 1. Regulatory Competition; A. A Competitive Law Market; 1. Law as a Market Good: Product or Service, Public or Private?; 2. The Competitive Cycle: Supply and Demand; 3. Structural Preconditions; (a) Legal diversity; (b) Physical mobility; (c) Legal mobility; 4. Incentives; (a) Political incentives; (b) Economic incentives; 5. Dimensions of Regulatory Competition: Proactive versus Passive; B. Regulatory Competition as a Real World Phenomenon; 1. Tax Law; 2. Corporate Law (A) Origins of the debate: charter competition in the US(b) The race to Europe: Limited, GmbH, and UG; (c) Corporate governance issues: employee representation; 3. Contract Law; 4. Labour Law; 5. Insolvency Law; 6. Dispute Resolution; (a) Judicial services; (b) Adjudication versus alternative dispute resolution; C. Conclusion; 2. The Economic Case for Regulatory Competition; A. Promises of Regulatory Competition; 1. Discovery of Efficient Legislative Solutions; 2. Acceleration of Law Reform; 3. Taming of the Leviathan State; B. Dysfunctional Regulatory Competition 1. Market Failure and Externalities(a) The 'race to the bottom'; (b) Externalities; (c) The selection principle; 2. Asymmetrical Influence of Interest Groups; 3. Bundling and the Price Mechanism; C. Conclusion; 3. Regulatory Competition and Utilitarianism; A. Regulatory Competition as an Imperative of Utilitarian Politics; 1. Subjectivist Welfare; 2. Legal Utilitarianism; 3. Regulatory Competition as a Means to Preference Satisfaction; B. Philosophical Arguments against Political Utilitarianism; 1. Illegitimate Preferences and Individual Rights; 2. Insensitivity to Distributive Justice 3. Lack of Regard for Special Relationships and Past CommitmentsC. Arguments against Particular Instances of Regulatory Competition; 1. Tax Competition and Redistribution; 2. Residual Debt Discharge in Insolvency Law; D. Conclusion; 4. Political Values under Competitive Pressure; A. Regulatory Competition and Democracy; 1. Demand Rule versus Majority Rule; (a) Open conflict between market demands and majority view; (b) Indirect erosion of majority rule; (c) Devolutionary erosion of majority rule; 2. Democracy and Equality; B. Regulatory Competition and State Autonomy 1. Autonomy as a Political Concept(a) Autonomy as an ideal; (b) Autonomy versus self-sufficiency; 2. State Autonomy under Competitive Pressure; (a) Choice of law opportunities and formal state autonomy; (b) Substantive state autonomy under competitive pressure; 3. State Autonomy and Democracy; C. Regulatory Competition and Political Authority; 1. The Legitimacy of Political Authority; 2. Perfectionist Authority and Regulatory Competition; (a) Perfectionist authority versus personal autonomy; (b) Diverging conceptions of human flourishing Explores the philosophical underpinnings, problems and consequences of regulatory competition and forum shopping |
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| Beschreibung: | xiv, 210 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780198839491 978-0-19-883949-1 |