Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when
they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable …

Significant amendment and interpretation of the SEC's Management Discussion and
Analysis mandatory disclosure item. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 with …

Corporate governance is a means, not an end. Before we can speak intelligently about
corporate governance, we must define its goals. In much of the recent academic literature on …

In the area of corporation law, the United States legal academy periodically falls in love with
its own ideas. In the early 1990s, for example, scholars wrote about, and subsequently …

In this introduction to Japanese law, J. Mark Ramseyer and Minoru Nakazato combine an
economic approach with a clear and often amusing account of the law itself to challenge …

In these globalizing times, corporate law's leading question is whether there is a national
corporate governance system (or component thereof) that possesses relative competitive …

The transplantation of legal rules from one country to another is commonly observed around
the world. Legal transplants' can range from the wholesale adoption of entire systems of law …

IN comparative work on Japanese law," culture" is king. That culture matters is clear enough.
Even in the West, essays about relentlessly rational individuals, divorced from their cultural …

700 Michigan Law Review [Vol. 97: 696 approximately 41, 0002 issuers of publicly traded
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