Comparative law

Since 1979 the world has witnessed a remarkable cycle of personal insolvency law reform.

This collection brings together historians, political scientists and legal scholars to explore the Anglo-American origins of impeachment and its use in the USA.

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This special issue asks what role society can play in the regulation of transnational risks, as an alternative to or at least significant addition to reliance on state regulatory activity and the myth of the self-regulatory capacity of markets (Stiglitz, 2001, p.

The book explores "e;what are the societal interests that may be affected by a takeover, are these protected under the current regulatory frameworks of the U.

A comprehensive legal analysis of how governance of human activities in developed states should be restructured to improve ecological protection.

In-depth, comparative analyses of German, UK and US company laws, illustrated by leading cases.

This book examines in detail both historical and current legal concepts of 'religious cultural heritage' within the context of the European continent.

This book focuses on the real themes in various areas of international economic law and explores the key elements behind the written rules.

This book argues that the European integration process (Europeanisation) is pushing the member states and candidate countries toward a greater convergence with the EU's competition acquis.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of international cultural heritage law from the perspectives of non-state actors (NSAs).

This book considers how a phenomenon as complex as coercive control can be criminalised.

This edited collection provides the reader with a comprehensive knowledge of automated decision-making, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithms, and how they can be used in criminal proceedings.

Foundations of Private Law is a treatise on the Western law of property, contract, tort and unjust enrichment in both common law systems and civil law systems.

Constitutional litigation in general attracts two distinct types of conflict: disputes of a highly politicized or culturally controversial nature and requests from citizens claiming a violation of a fundamental constitutional right.

This collection of essays investigates the way in which modern private law apportions responsibility between multiple parties who are (or may be) responsible for the same legal event.

This book examines the current law on the employment status of ministers of religion together with religious workers and volunteers and suggests reforms in this area of the law to meet the need for ministers to be given a degree of employment protection.

This book addresses intersex rights violations and analyses intersex people's legal demands as expressed by intersex activists themselves and delivered through statements and reports issued by intersex rights organisations, the United Nations and the Council of Europe.

This book analyzes how replacing democratic constitutions may contribute to the improvement or erosion of democratic principles and practices.

A fresh perspective on socialist law as practiced in China and Vietnam, two major socialist states.

Mediation provides an attractive alternative to resolving disputes through court proceedings.

This book examines the international forums in which states develop cyber norms-"e;rules of the road"e; for how governments use information and communication technologies.

Examines election case law to demonstrate and assess how the Supreme Court has radically transformed American democracy.

This book poses the question: do we need a new body of regulations and the constitution of new regulatory agents to face the evolution of money in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

This book examines the effect of the adoption of the United Nations Committee on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency in five common law jurisdictions, namely Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

This book discusses prominent and controversial gender-related issues across the fields of family law, tort law, labour law, civil procedure law, ADR and private international law.

Examines the persisting inequality between formal commitments to gender equality and equal citizenship.

This book offers a clear, accessible account of the American litigation over the restitution of works of art taken from Jewish families during the Holocaust.

Thevolume is devoted to the relevant problems in the legal sphere, created andgenerated by recent advances in science and technology.

This is the first part of a 2-volume set that presents an in-depth investigation into the canon of constitutionally conforming interpretation.

Explores how the text and principles of the UNCITRAL Model Arbitration Law are implemented, or not, in key Asian jurisdictions.

This book presents an in-depth discussion on two concepts from the field of philosophy and law, in order to improve our understanding of the relation between "e;fact"e; and "e;evidence"e; in judicial process.

This book focuses on major amendments introduced in the Brussels I regulatory framework.

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This book reviews the periodic changes in the legal policies of the late-developing ASEAN countries, often known as the CLMV countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam), in their continuous path toward globalization after the collapse of the socialist bloc.

This comprehensive study examines the development and changing characteristics of the judicial system and reform process over the past three decades in China.

Community, home, and identity are concepts that have concerned scholars in a variety of fields for some time.

This book traces the emergence and transformations of asbestos compensation to explore the wider issue of to what extent legal systems have converged in the era of globalization.

This book provides an overview of disability exceptions to copyright infringement and the international and human rights legal framework for disability rights and exceptions.