Comparative law

European integration is an open-ended, ongoing process which has been deeply challenged by integral world capitalism.

This book analyzes international and Chinese regulatory approaches addressing environmental risks that may be caused by GM crops and examines how China implements its international obligations in its policies and laws.

The UNESCO International Bioethics Committee is an international body that sets standards in the field of bioethics.

How does international criminal procedure differ from any domestic legal principles and why?

Drugs Law and Legal Practice in Southeast Asia investigates criminal law and practice relevant to drugs regulation in three Southeast Asian jurisdictions: Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam.

Expert scholars and practitioners shed light on the laws of humanitarian action and make sense of the various elements involved.

Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses.

Susan Haack brings her distinctive work in theory of knowledge and philosophy of science to bear on real-life legal issues.

This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law.

This book focuses on the World Bank's sanctions system, which is an innovative instrument of global governance implemented by the leading multilateral development bank in order to impose penalties on legal entities and individuals that are involved in Bank-financed projects.

This comparative analysis of six common law nations identifies and assesses the issues currently challenging judiciary, regulators and religious charities.

This book reviews and analyzes the innovative measures introduced, lessons learned and problems encountered by selected and representative provinces, cities and counties with regard to the openness of local government affairs.

This book examines the role and impact of EU, international human rights and refugee law on national laws and policies for integration and argues for a broad understanding of the relationship between integration and the law.

The Delaware State Constitution is the first state constitution drafted by a convention composed of popularly elected representatives, and it is rich with history and tradition.

Analyzes whether China''s thirty years of legal reform have taken root in Chinese society by examining how ordinary citizens are using the legal system.

This volume explores the causes and consequences of family inequality in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

How and to what degree do federations produce uniform law within their system?

This book is about judicial reasoning in human rights cases.

E-voting is the use of electronic means in the casting of the vote at political elections or referendums.

This book is the first book focusing on the Chinese law of unjust enrichment in English and introducing it to Western jurisdictions.

This book analyzes the business model of enterprises in the digital economy by taking an economic and comparative perspective.

This book presents a selection of the latest arbitration cases, materials, and commentaries from China.

This book focuses on Chinese cases on the CISG decided by Chinese courts of all levels, focusing on 2011 to 2012.

Financial crime is a significant drain on economies across the world.

This is the first in a 4-volume set that provides the definitive account of the major issues of comparative constitutional law in 19 Asian jurisdictions.

This book studies the questions of how and to what extent the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) can be interpreted and implemented in light of international human rights law, with a sharpened focus on Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

This book uses the monographic study of litigation subjects, prosecution, trial, and enforcement to reveal the formation, operation, and development of criminal proceeding conventions in the Tang Dynasty.

Je stärker in Europa ein Gesellschaftsrecht mit Rechtswahlmöglichkeiten befürwortet wird, desto mehr wächst die Bedeutung von Information als Funktionsvoraussetzung für effiziente Entscheidungen.

This book analyses the current legal situation and protection of vulnerable groups in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland.

This book explains how the idea and practice of UCA are shaped by, and inform, constitutional politics through various social and political actors, and in both formal and informal amendment processes, across Asia.

This book investigates the dynamic intertwinement of law and morality, with a focus on new and developing fields of law.

This collection presents an analysis of the concept of secession and its constitutional accommodation alongside an assessment of the effects of secession in constitutional and international law.

This publication entitled Encyclopaedia of World Legal, Judicial and Court Systems is truly global in terms of content, scope and coverage.

Angesichts der aktuellen geopolitischen Bedrohungslage ist eine vertiefte deutsch-franzosische und europaische Rustungskooperation unerlasslich.

This book explores the use of the doctrine of good faith in the common law when interpreting contracts and resolving disputes.

This fascinating study uses qualitative and quantitative data and insights from interviews with judges, lawyers, government officials, entrepreneurs, bankers, consultants, and academics in China and abroad, to provide a new perspective on the problems that have hindered the implementation of the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law in China, and recent attempts at reform.

Vor dem Hintergrund der Mehrdeutigkeit des Nachhaltigkeitsbegriffs untersucht diese Monografie dessen Konzipierung und Justiziabilität rechtsvergleichend im deutschen und griechischen Recht und veranschaulicht Rationalitätskonzepte und Rationalitätspotenziale des Nachhaltigkeitsgebots.

Are you involved in making decisions in court, a tribunal, or another formal decision-making environment?

Innovations in Evidence and Proof brings together fifteen leading scholars and experienced law teachers based in Australia, Canada, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, the USA and England and Wales to explore and debate the latest developments in Evidence and Proof scholarship.

This book focuses on the interaction and mutual influences between the East and the West in terms of their legal systems and practices.

Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume explores the reality of the principle of human dignity - a core value which is increasingly invoked in our societies and legal systems.

This book focuses on Chinese cases on the CISG decided by Chinese courts of all levels, mainly from 2006 to 2010.

'Inquisitorial processes' refers to the inquiry powers of administrative governance and this book examines the use of these powers in administrative law across seven jurisdictions.

This is the third revised edition of what was described by the English Court of Appeal in C v D as the standard work on Bermuda Form excess insurance policies.