VOLUME 28


ISSUE 1

The Interaction of Labor Market Regulation and Labor Market Policies in Welfare State Reform
Werner Eichhorst and Regina Konle-Seidl

The Regulation of Labor and the Relevance of Legal Origin
David E. Pozen

New Employment Times and the Changing Dynamics of Conflict Resolution at Work:  The Case of Ireland
Paul Teague

 


ISSUE 2
 
THE CRISIS IN WORKPLACE GOVERNANCE: SPECIAL ISSUE IN HONOR OF PAUL C. WEILER

Updating American Labor Law:  Taking Advantage of a Window of Opportunity
Thomas A. Kochan

Crafting a Progressive Workplace Regulatory Policy:  Why Enforcement Matters
David Weil

Reconciling Differences Differently:  Reflections on Labor Law and Worker Voice After Collective Bargaining
Harry Arthurs

Reconciling Differences Differently:  Employee Voice in Public Policymaking and Workplace Governance
Daphne Taras

Recrafting a Trojan Horse:  Thoughts on Workplace Governance in Light of Recent British Labor Law Developments
James J. Brudney

Immigration to the Workplace:  The German Experience
Peter Hanau

Closing the Global Gender Pay Gap:  Securing Justice for Women's Work
Mary Cornish

Changing Employment Practices, Corporate Governance, and the Role of Labor Law in Japan
Takashi Araki

Globalization in Collective Bargaining, Baseball, and Matsuzaka:  Labor and Antitrust Law on the Diamond
William B. Gould IV

Governance of the Workplace:  The Contemporary Regime of Individual Contract
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt and Timothy A. Haley

Something Old, Something New:  Governing the Workplace by Contract Again
Cynthia Estlund

 

ISSUE 3

BRIDGING THE PAST AND THE FUTURE: A SYMPOSIUM ON COMPARATIVE LABOR LAW

Comparative Labor Law--Bridging the Past and the Future
Benjamin Aaron and Katherine V.W. Stone

Part I:  A Look Backward:  Reflections and Assessments of the Comparative Labor Law Project

The Comparative Labor Law Group:  A Brief History and a Personal Evaluation
Benjamin Aaron

Lessons from an Experiment in Comparative Labor Law (Reflections on the Comparative Labor Law Group)
Xavier Blanc-Jouvan

Comparative Analysis of Labor Law:  Learning from the Work Products of a Model Collaborative Design
Alvin L. Goldman and Amy Beckham Osborne

Part II:  Convergence or Divergence?

A Comparative Analysis of Security, Flexibility, and Decentralized Industrial Relations in Japan
Takashi Araki

Convergences and/or Divergences of Labor Law Systems: The View from Australia
Ron McCallum

Convergence and/or Divergence in Labor Law Systems?: An European Perspective
Manfred Weiss

Developing the European Comparative Law of Personal Work Contracts
Mark Freedland

Part III:  Comparative Approaches and Responses to Globalization

Changes in the Workplace and the Dialogue of Labor Law in the "Global Village"
Bruno Caruso

Beyond the National Case:  The Role of Transnational Labor Law in Shaping Domestic Regulation
Julia Lopez

Part IV:  Future Directions for Comparative Labor Research

A New Labor Law for a New World of Work:  The Case for a Comparative-Transnational Approach
Katherine V.W. Stone

Future Directions for Labor Law Scholarship and International Collaboration
Jacques Rojot

Compared to What? The UCLA Comparative Labor Law Project and the Future of Comparative Labor Law
H.W. Arthurs

BOOK REVIEW

Law and Globalization from Below:  Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality, edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Cesar A. Rodriguez-Garavito
reviewed by Roger Blanpain

 


ISSUE 4

ENTREPRENEURSHIP: LAW, CULTURE, AND THE LABOR MARKET

Introduction

THE ECONOMICS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Entrepreneurship, Welfare Provision, and Unemployment:  Relationships between Unemployment, Welfare Provision, and Entrepreneurship in Thirty-seven Nations Participating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2002
Marc Cowling and William D. Bygrave

Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints, and Start-Up Costs
Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud, and Thepthida Sopraseuth

Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship
Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara

Law and the Economics of Entrepreneurship
Simon C. Parker

Entrepreneurship and Institutions
Magnus Henrekson

REGULATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Social Security Arrangements and Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity
Jolanda Hessels, Andre van Stel, Peter Brouwer, and Sanders Wennekers

Why Do Entrepreneurs Appear and Flourish?
Thomas S. Ulen

CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Culture, Political Institutions, and the Regulation of Entry
Rui Baptista

The Entrepreneurial Spirit and What the Law Can Do About It
Amir N. Licht

Explaining Cross-National Variations in Entrepreneurship:  The Role of Social Protection and Political Culture
Martin Robson

CONCLUDING COMMENT

Research on Entrepreneurship, Culture, and Law
Richard P. Taub