Comparative law

This book offers a multidisciplinary and in-depth analysis of the One Health approach.

Although both Canada and the United Kingdom had experienced terrorism prior to the attacks of 9/11 and already had in place extensive provisions to deal with terrorism, the events of that day led to the enactment of new and expansive counter-terrorism legislation being enacted in both jurisdictions.

Commercial relationships give rise to diverse forms of legal obligation in private law, including contract, tort, agency, company law and partnership.

This timely collection of essays examines the legal and regulatory dynamics of energy transitions in the context of emerging trends towards decarbonisation and low-carbon energy solutions.

The effects of US secondary sanctions are broad and are often designed to cripple the target country's economy and currency.

This book presents selective case studies concerning China's Copyright Law, especially the typical cases chosen by China's Supreme People's Court and the Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou IP courts in recent years as the local court's guiding reference cases, the goal is to help readers familiarize themselves with China's dispute and resolution system from a practical point of view.

This book examines the discourse and developments surrounding privacy and data protection in the digital realm, featuring papers and discussions from the 2024 CPDP.

This user-friendly book aims to summarize the principal topics of Chinese Taxation and offers readers a general overview of the Chinese Taxation and informative updates on tax changes.

What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies?

Die Suche nach den Grenzen unternehmerischer Leitungsmacht betrifft eine uralte Kernfrage des Aktienrechts und zugleich ein modernes Zentralthema der Corporate-Governance-Diskussion.

An examination of the concealment controversy in international refugee law.

This is the long-awaited third edition of this highly regarded comparative overview of corporate law.

How we understand what procedure is due as a fundamental or constitutional right can have a critical impact on designing a civil procedure.

If the United States of Europe should become a reality in the future, it is highly probable that the Court of Justice of the European Communities, now sitting in Luxembourg, will be transformed into the supreme court of the new federation.

It is increasingly held that international commercial arbitration is becoming colonized by litigation.

Offers a comprehensive overview of the key issues facing family law globally, and explores how different countries have tackled them.

This book looks at two technological advancements in the area of e-commerce, which dramatically seem to change the way consumers shop online.

In Coercion and Responsibility in Islam, Mairaj Syed explores how classical Muslim theologians and jurists from four intellectual traditions argue about the thorny issues that coercion raises about responsibility for one's action.

For a country of its size, Taiwan has a tremendous influence on world affairs and U.

How to accommodate diverse religious practices and laws within a secular framework is one of the most pressing and controversial problems facing contemporary European public order.

Reconceptualises the general meeting, controlling shareholders and institutional investors as fiduciaries in four leading common law Asian jurisdictions.

Bringing together leading commercial and contract law scholars from the United Kingdom and United States, Comparative Contract Law: British and American Perspectives offers an insightful and comprehensive assessment of the commonalities and divergences in the contract law of these two jurisdictions.

This book sets out and explores the case for a modernised impeachment process for the United Kingdom.

This book brings together leading experts in the fields of insurance and the law of obligations to consider how insurance law is attempting to deal with emerging risks.

Das Zivilgesetzbuch der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (VAE) ist eines der jüngeren Zivilgesetzbücher des ägyptischen Rechtskreises.

This book outlines the legal status of Muslims in Italy.

This book brings together critical legal analyses of ongoing global issues in the digital age by international lawyers in Asia.

This book presents the latest and most relevant studies, surveys, and succinct reviews in the field of financial crimes and cybercrime, conducted and gathered by a group of top professionals, scholars, and researchers from China, India, Spain, Italy, Poland, Germany, and Russia.

An examination and critique of the growth of mass administrative detention of immigrants, something contrary to the rule of law.

This volume contributes to the on-going legal discussion on pressing procedural and substantial law issues in the ambit of international human rights and civil liberties.

This book examines the simultaneous protection of fundamental rights by various norms and jurisdictional organs, focussing on the multilevel protection of the principle of legality in Criminal Law.

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

This book describes the constitutions of six major federations and how they have been interpreted by their highest courts, compares the interpretive methods and underlying principles that have guided the courts, and explores the reasons for major differences between these methods and principles.

Explores the effects in theory and in practice of recent foreign inspired legal reforms in East Asia and Oceania.

This book provides an analysis of how commercial and banking disputes can be settled under the Islamic regime for arbitration.

This book analyses large-scale land investments for agricultural purposes in Africa's least developed countries from a law and economics perspective.

This book explores how judiciaries in different parts of the world are responding to climate change and how climate change intersects with the law.

This collection of socio-legal studies, written by leading theorists and researchers from around the world, offers original, perceptive and critical contributions to ideas and theories that have been expounded by Roger Cotterrell over a long and distinguished career.

This book explores convergences of legal doctrine despite jurisdictional, cultural and political barriers, as well as divergences due to such barriers, examining topics that are of vital importance to contemporary legal scholars.

A newly updated edition of "e;the most readable and succinct account of the origins, the development, and the philosophy of the civil law"e; (Houston Law Review).

This book explores how constitutional courts have transformed communication and overcome their reluctance to engage in direct dialogue with citizens.

This book, which updates and expands the third edition published by Springer in 2015, explains, compares and evaluates the social and legal functions of adoption within a range of selected jurisdictions and on an international basis.