The Globalization of Corporate Insolvency Regimes: Law, International Institutions, Professions, and Nation-States

这个项目提供了一个基于理论的解释，强大的全球机构，其内部和合作行动通常是无形的，制定企业破产的全球规范的方式。研究人员试图了解全球中心的金融和专业机构如何制定游戏规则，然后由外围国家经济体的参与者在立法中进行谈判。该项目将先前的工作扩展到几个新的方向：国家市场的社会和网络结构化到区域和全球层面，专业人士，国家和金融机构在立法中争夺财产和司法权的相互作用，以及律师和全球化。这些主题是统一的，围绕着发展一个社会法律理论的法律制定，扩展了法律的递归理论，密切关注从法律的行动，法律的书籍。研究人员采用了三个要素的研究设计：（1）他们将目前的发展与1973-1999年全球政治，社会和经济变化以及破产改革的横截面时间序列数据相结合;（2）他们将继续采访和观察全球机构的主要参与者;（3）他们将进行六项个案研究，其中包括联合收割机的主要文献资料来源、与各国专家的磋商、国际金融机构的资料来源、二次分析以及在每个国家进行的访谈。通过这种方法，研究人员试图刺激新生的文学对法律的全球化，并注入法律的跨学科辩论和研究市场的全球化。

This project provides an empirically-based theoretical interpretation of ways that powerful global institutions, whose internal and cooperative actions are usually invisible, set the global norms for business insolvencies. The researchers seek to understand how the rules of the game are set by financial and professional institutions in global centers and subsequently are negotiated in law-making by players in the peripheral national economies. This project extends prior work in several new directions: the social and network structuration of national markets to regional and global levels, the interplay among professionals, the state and financial institutions in struggles over property and jurisdictional rights in law-making, and lawyers and globalization. These themes are unified around developing a socio-legal theory of law-making that extends a theory of the recursivity of law to focus closely on the shift from law-in-action to law-on-the books. The researchers employ a research design with three elements: (1) they will contextualize present developments with a cross-sectional time-series data on political, social and economic change and bankruptcy reforms world-wide from 1973-1999; (2) they will continue interviews and observations of the key participants in global institutions; and (3) they will undertake six case studies which combine primary documentary sources, consultations with country specialists, sources from international financial institutions, secondary analysis, and interviews in each country. Through this approach, the researchers seek to stimulate the nascent literature on the globalization of law and to inject law into cross-disciplinary debates and research on globalization of markets.