Comparative law

This book examines whether domestic courts in twelve countries actually provide remedies to private parties who are harmed by a violation of their treaty-based rights.

This book is intended to promote discussion and understanding of customary law and to explore its continued relevance in sub-Saharan Africa.

Comparative study has emerged as the new frontier of constitutional law scholarship as well as an important aspect of constitutional adjudication.

This is the story of how democracy became entrenched in the world''s largest Muslim-majority country.

Provides insights on shareholder voting and engagement in nineteen jurisdictions using comparative legal and empirical analyses.

This book presents the case that liberal constitutionalism in the global South is a legacy of colonialism and is inappropriate as a means of securing effective peace in regions that have been subject to recurrent conflict.

Democratic legal systems have recently been subject to rapid and multi-directional processes of change.

Does constitutionalizing rights improve respect for those rights in practice?

A systematic and up-to-date account of constitutional developments in sixteen Asian countries, including analysis from a comparative perspective.

This volume examines the relationship between central government and local institutions, taking Italy as a case study to present a comparative perspective on how the Italian experience has influenced the global developments of federal and regional states.

North American law has been transformed in ways unimaginable before 9/11.

This book argues that the trade-distorting effects of advantages associated with SOEs are more severe from an economic perspective, and the behavior of SOEs after receiving advantages is of more concern, compared to private-owned enterprises (POEs).

Explores how proportionality analysis – a legal transplant from the West – is judicially enforced by courts around Asia.

There has been much discussion in the last ten years about the need to reform the law governing company charge registration, with many bodies including the Department of Trade and Industry and Law Commissions considering the case for reform of this area in the context of a wider scheme of personal property security reform.

A collection of essays exploring the gap between theory and practice in comparative legal studies.

This work presents a thorough investigation of existing rules and features of the treatment of foreign law in various jurisdictions.

A detailed study of the importance of the timing of guilty pleas and its effects across different legal jurisdictions.

This book of essays celebrates Mark Aronson's contribution to administrative law.

This book, first published in 2007, contains 240 laws and other regulations recognizing the property rights of refugees and displaced persons.

This book challenges the common view that the Russian Constitution is a sham or a reflection of Russia's authoritarian past.

This book presents problems that often arise in the context of international/cross-border insolvencies; analyzes and compares national legislations and jurisprudence; elucidates the solutions offered by international/regional instruments; and explores the differences in the implementation of these instruments by various countries and the consequences of these differences.

This book presents an in-depth interrogation of the theory and application of the Basic Structure Doctrine in the Federation of Malaysia.

This volume, incorporating the work of scholars from various parts of the globe, taps the wisdom of the Westphalian (and post-Westphalian) world on the use of federalism and secession as tools for managing regional conflicts.

Taking a critical attitude of dissatisfaction towards rights, the central premise of this book is that rights are technologies of governmentality.

Substate nationalism, especially in the past fifteen years, has noticeably affected the political and territorial stability of many countries, both democratic and democratizing.

This book assesses stability guarantees through the lens of the legitimate expectations principle to offer a new perspective on the stability concept in international energy investments.

a highly valuable contribution to the legal literature.

This book explores a range of topics relating to the prosecution and trial of organised crime and the punishment, especially imprisonment, of members of organised criminal groups.

Justice, the State and International Relations offers a review of historical traditions of international ethical and political theory in the light of modern developments in political philosophy.

This book discusses legal education in multicultural classes.

Addresses the relationship between the nation-state and non-state law, considering how they can coexist and transform each other.

Eminent lawyers from academia, international judiciary and legal practice join up to honour Professor Mads Andenas KC (Hon).

Increasingly, international governmental networks and organisations make it necessary to master the legal principles of other jurisdictions.

This is the first book to present the law of the Baltic States in one comprehensive and coherent volume in English.

The book identifies the impact of misinformation in the context of referenda.

The contributions in this book cover a wide range of topics within modern disputeresolution, which can be summarised as follows: harmonisation, enforcement andalternative dispute resolution.

This book is about the American legal system for jurists of civil law backgrounds.

This book analyzes the concept, theory, rules, and impact of the reform of the international monetary system and Crypto-SDRs and provides a feasibility analysis of the combination of blockchain technology and SDRs.

The rule of law, or Rechtsstaatsprinzip, is one of Germany's oldest constitutional principles and forms part of Germany's constitutional self-understanding.

Volume two of a comparative study of the concepts that underpin different domestic systems of criminal law and justice.

The law relating to fitness to plead is an increasingly important area of the criminal law.

This book develops an analytical framework for water law reform, using case studies across four jurisdictions, for academics, students and policy makers.

This book employs methods from comparative law to analyze voluntary migration, exploring the free movement of immigrants and their freedom of settlement under Brazilian and Mercosul law, as well as under German law and the European Union's legal framework on migration.

Although employers are required to pay compensation for employee inventions under the laws in many countries, existing legal literature has never critically examined whether such compensation actually gives employee inventors an incentive to invent as the legislature intends.