Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Paulius Jurčys , Poul F. Kjaer and Ren Yatsunami -- Introduction / Poul F. Kjaer -- Observing (the) Law: The “Epistemological Turn” in Public Law and the Evolution of Global Administrative Law / Ino Augsberg -- Of Round Pegs and Square Holes: International Law and the Private Sector / Jan Klabbers -- Law and Legal Pluralism: Hybridity in Transnational Governance / Peer Zumbansen -- Regulatory Hybridization in International Intellectual Property Law / Paulius Jurčys -- Regulation of Internet Jurisdiction for B2B Commercial Transactions: EU and US Compared / Faye Fangfei Wang -- Dynamics of International Harmonization and Divergence of Safety Standards: The Regulatory Hybridization of Automobile and Food Safety / Hideaki Shiroyama -- Are Expert Networks Driving the Trend towards Soft Transnational Coordination? / Nina Boeger and Joseph Corkin -- Transnational Regulatory Networks / Mark Fenwick -- Rules of Recognition: A Legal Constructivist Approach to Transnational Private Regulation / Harm Schepel -- The Concept of Participation in the Making of Transnational Law: Legitimization and Normativity in the Transnational Sphere / Andreas Maurer -- State Immunity and Breaches of Fundamental Human Rights / Adeline Chong -- The Impact of Transnational Customs on Private International Law / Ren Yatsunami -- Does Transnational Family Law Exist? Should Adult Relationships be Freed from National Protective Norms? / Maebh Harding -- Between Integration and Compatibility: The Reconfiguration of Cognitive and Normative Structures in Transnational Hybrid Law / Poul F. Kjaer -- Index / Paulius Jurčys , Poul F. Kjaer and Ren Yatsunami.

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Hybridization has become a defining feature of regulatory frameworks. The combined forces of globalization and privatization together with increased reliance on self-regulation have resulted in the emergence of a multitude of regulatory arrangements which combine elements from several legal orders. This book offers a conceptual framework as well as numerous empirical explorations capable of increasing our understanding of regulatory hybridization. A number of central dichotomies are deconstructed: national vs. transnational law; international vs. transnational law; convergence vs. divergence; soft law vs. hard law; territorial vs. non-territorial, ‘top-down’ vs. ‘bottom-up’ globalization and national vs. global just as the implications of regulatory hybridization for the question of choice of court and conflict of laws are analyzed. Contributors include: Poul Fritz Kjaer, Ino Augsberg, Jan Klabbers, Peer Zumbansen, Paulius Jurčys, Faye Fangfei Wang, Hideaki Shiroyama, Mark D. Fenwick, Nina Boerger, Joseph Corkin, Harm Schepel, Andreas Maurer, Adeline Chong, Ren Yatsunami, and Maebh Harding.

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