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LOCALIZING GLOBAL COMPETITION LAW IN VIETNAM: A BOTTOM-UP PERSPECTIVE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2015

John Gillespie
John Gillespie*
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The author is Director of the Asia Pacific Business Regulation Group, Department of Business Law, Monash Business School, Monash University, john.gillespie@monash.edu.
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Abstract

Global laws are an important inspiration for commercial law reforms around the world. Much analysis of this phenomenon emphasizes the capacity of regulatory élites, such as lawmakers, courts and lawyers, to adapt global laws to local conditions. What is often absent from this top-down analysis is a wide-ranging consideration of what the regulated think about global laws. This article aims to redress this shortcoming in the comparative literature by drawing fresh perspectives from bottom-up responses to global laws. It takes from socio-legal scholarship a framework for analysing the interface between thought formation and social action and explores the question—how do the regulated conceptualize and localize global laws? If compliance is socially constructed from below, as this literature suggests, then attempts to understand legal globalization by focusing exclusively on regulatory élites misses much of the localization story.

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comparative lawcompetition lawlegal transplantlegitimacy theorytransnational knowledgeVietnam
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International & Comparative Law Quarterly , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , October 2015 , pp. 935 - 963
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Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2015 

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