Comparative law

Since a reform in 2010, foreign investors can establish a Foreign-Invested Limited Partnership Enterprise (FILPE) in China together with Chinese or foreign investors.

Recent revelations, by Edward Snowden and others, of the vast network of government spying enabled by modern technology have raised major concerns both in the European Union and the United States on how to protect privacy in the face of increasing governmental surveillance.

This book provides an original account detailing the origins and components of a faith-based accounting system that was founded around 629 CE.

This book approaches law as a process embedded in transnational personal, religious, communicative and economic relationships that mediate between international, national and local practices, norms and values.

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A unique analysis which combines current scholarship in law and economics with the expertise of local corporate governance specialists.

This title was first published in 2001.

The book analyzes the most relevant developments in the relation between contracts and technology, from automatically concluded contracts to today's revolutionary "e;smart contracts"e; developed through blockchain, which are beginning to and will increasingly disrupt many economic and social relations.

The interaction between military and civilian courts, the political power that legal prerogatives can provide to the armed forces, and the difficult process civilian politicians face in reforming military justice remain glaringly under-examined, despite their implications for the quality and survival of democracy.

The challenges that labour law currently faces are well known.

Business networks are an important economic phenomenon of increasing practical importance throughout Europe.

This book provides a comprehensive theory of the rights upon which tort law is based and the liability that flows from violating those rights.

Developing a normative framework for evaluating non-state actors in the absence of formally binding obligations, this study is the first detailed human rights analysis of Hamas conduct and governance in the Gaza Strip.

Comparing four key branches of private law in China and Taiwan, this collaborative and novel book demystifies the ''China puzzle''.

This book provides a uniquely comparative approach to the examination of financial crime regulation.

Comparing four key branches of private law in China and Taiwan, this collaborative and novel book demystifies the ''China puzzle''.

This collection of essays explores the law of trusts as it is understood in civilian and mixed jurisdictions.

This book is a reflection on domestic intellectual property lawmaking from a developing country's perspective.

Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical foundations of contract law in which Professor Fried effectively answers some of the most common assumptions about contract law and strongly proposes a moral basis for it while defending the classical theory of contract.

The book gathers the general report and the national reports presented at the XXth General Congress of the IACL, in Fukuoka (Japan), on the topic "e;Debating legal pluralism and constitutionalism: new trajectories for legal theory in the global age"e;.

This book examines an unexplored method of interpretation: the use of domestic law in the interpretation of international law.

The book aims to depict the whole picture of China's Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) in the digital sector and reveals the three key factors that shape AML enforcement.

Self-described populist leaders around the world are dismantling their nation's constitutions.

Globalization and migration are producing societies of increasing linguistic diversity.

Toward a North American Legal System is a collection of scholarship that looks at a timely issue in public policy.

As a result of arms control efforts over the past 50 years, nuclear material is subject to strict national controls and tough international treaties.

Examining the challenges of using the global anti-money laundering (AML) framework in an uneven global regulatory landscape, this book discusses the difficulties of relating de-regulation, liberalization and conflict of laws to the dynamics of the market economy and demonstrates how the global environment engenders money laundering.

This book probes the depths of libertarian philosophy and highlights the need for laws that protect all individuals in society.

This book examines the legal principle of judicial independence in comparative perspective with the goal of advancing a better understanding of the idea of an independent judiciary more generally.

This study examines Turkey's non-recognition of the right to conscientious objection to military service and locates this non-recognition within the context of international human rights law - specifically United Nations and European Union system.

Providing a legal history of counter-terrorism in colonial and neo-colonial eras, this book examines the relationship between Western influence and counter-terrorism law.

This 2004 book provides acomprehensive account of the American law of restitution.

This book proposes a new way of thinking about the controversial and complex challenges associated with the regulation of high-cost credit, specifically payday lending.

In recent times, there has been a growing dominance of executives centered on the figure of a central leader, while parliaments, which should be the focus of political power, are being marginalized.

This volume discusses EU criminal justice from three perspectives.

In an era marked by processes of economic, political and legal integration that are arguably unprecedented in their range and impact, the translation of law has assumed a significance which it would be hard to overstate.

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.

In this book, Patrick Parkinson argues that the conflicts in family law derive from the breakdown of the model on which divorce reform was predicated.

This book contributes to the development of literature on cooperative law while paying tribute to Hagen Henry's significant impact on this field at a global scale.

The need for suppressing the illicit traffic in drugs can hardly be over-emphasized.

The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law provides a conceptual and historical account of the Jewish understanding of law.

This book develops the term 'Sustainable Innovations' and defines it on the basis of plant variety innovations that, by their very nature, (i) permit the in situ conservation of agrobiodiversity and genetic variability in diverse geographic and climatic conditions, (ii) do not exclude any potential innovators from the process of innovation, and thereby (iii) ensure that both formal and informal innovations can continue to take place in the generations to come (in both the developed and developing world).

This comprehensive volume analyzes dual markets for regulated substances and services, and aims to provide a framework for their effective regulation.

This major collection contains selected papers from the second Public Law Conference, an international conference hosted by the University of Cambridge in September 2016.

This book provides international perspectives on the law of copyright in relation to three core themes - copyright and developing countries; the government and copyright; and technology and the future of copyright.