Prompted by an unprecedented rise of litigation since the 1990s, this book examines how the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) system and the Strasbourg Court interact with states and non-governmental actors to influence domestic change.
State formation after civil war offers a new model for studying the formation of the state in a national peace transition as an integrated national phenomenon.
Going beyond the more usual focus on Jerusalem as a sacred place, this book presents legal perspectives on the most important sacred places of the Mediterranean.
This volume provides an overview of selected major areas of legal and institutional development in Lithuania since the Restoration of Independence in 1990.
The European Yearbook of Constitutional Law (EYCL) is an annual publication initiated by the Department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg University and devoted to the study of constitutional law.
This book studies an overarching question of the challenges faced by Chinese lawmakers, Chinese listed companies, Chinese companies' external advisers, and securities regulators in dealing with Chinese cross-border listed companies' continuous disclosure in Australia, and how can these challenges be addressed.
In this book Hugh Beale examines the case for reforming the law on mistake and non-disclosure of fact to bring English law closer to the law in much of continental Europe.
A uniquely comprehensive analysis of human rights combining historical, philosophical, and legal perspectives with research from psychology and the cognitive sciences.
Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung ist ein Vergleich des im deutschen Strafrecht entwickelten Organisationstäters, dem die mittelbare Täterschaft aufgrund der Organisationsherrschaft zugeschrieben wird, und der im georgischen Strafrecht gesetzlich normierten Figur des Organisators, die mit besonderer Gesellschaftsgefährlichkeit begründet wird.
Examines how contemporary relations between indigenous and Western nations are shaped by the dynamics of power, the politics of property, and the apologetics of law.
This book offers readers an accessible and broad-ranging guide to Environmental Public Interest Litigation (EPIL), which has burgeoned in China over the past decade.
Recent confrontations between constitutional courts and parliamentary majorities in several European countries have attracted international interest in the relationship between the judiciary and the legislature.
Ask No Questions provides readers with a better understanding of Sexual Orientation Discrimination as an increasingly important area of law around the world.
This is the first book dedicated to clarifying the concept of "e;foundlings"e; and how to best prevent their statelessness in light of the object and purpose of Article 2 of the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and equivalent nationality law provisions.
This book includes guiding cases of the Supreme People's Court, cases deliberated on by the Judicial Committee of the Supreme People's Court and cases discussed at the Joint Meeting of Presiding Judges from various tribunals.
Die Festschrift zum 60-jährigen Bestehen der Assistententagung im Öffentlichen Recht reflektiert Wandlungsprozesse, wie sie seit den 1960er Jahren im Öffentlichen Recht stattfinden.
This comparative philosophy of law book aims at formulating a new analytical approach to the Islamic legal tradition based on 'juridical categories', a concept that facilitates comprehension and understanding of juridical phenomena.
This book compares the law on provisional measures of common law and civil law countries, the goal being to identify and compare their main advantages and disadvantages.
This book provides transnational insight into cultural property crimes and the cutting-edge work tackling issues ranging from currency crimes to innovative research methods.
This book examines Japan and Korea''s post-World War II constitutional history to challenge enduring assumptions about the nature of constitution-making.
