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Perry-Kessaris, Amanda (2002) 'Multinational Enterprises, International Economic Organisations and Convergence among Legal Systems.' Non-State Actors and International Law, 2 (1). pp. 22-39.

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Abstract

The article explores the existence, nature and impact of the market for `legal products', and in particular the role of non state actors such as multinational enterprises (MNEs) and international economic organisations (IEOs) in that market. It considers IEOs as producers of legal reform models; states as consumers of legal reform models and producers of resulting legal systems; and MNEs as consumers of resulting legal systems. It argues that the market for legal reform products is oligopolistic, and thus not fully competitive;that competition does currently exist in the market for legal systems, due to the large number of state producers; but that such competition as exists is likely to fall as legal systems are forced to converge under the increasingly dominant of legal reform product offered by IEOs; that such convergence might occur naturally with regard to those aspects of legal systems as to which consumers such as MNEs hold, and act upon, homogenous preferences; but that to force convergence in those aspects of legal systems as to which consumers hold heterogeneous preferences interferes with competitive forces and is thus potentially damaging.

Item Type: Journal Article
SOAS Departments & Centres: Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > School of Law
ISSN: 15677125
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1163/157180702400453247
Date Deposited: 20 Oct 2010 15:58
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/10479

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