Comparative law

The book analyses the Indian Supreme Court's jurisprudence on homosexuality, its current approach and how its position has evolved in the past ten years.

The People's Republic of China's tax policies and international obligations are as multifaceted and dynamic as they are complex, developing closely with the nation's rise to the world's fastest-growing major economy.

This book explores current issues regarding the regulation of various economic sectors, theoretically and empirically, discussing both neoclassical and behavioural economics approaches to regulation.

Ellermann examines the development of immigration policies in four democracies from the postwar era to the present.

The book focuses on the interactions between international legal regimes related to biodiversity governance.

This book offers an in-depth and critical analysis of the Istanbul Convention, along with discussions on its impact and implications.

Considers the problems of constitutionalism and addresses the legal issues of making constitutions ''work''.

This collection examines topical issues related to the impact of courts on constitutional politics during extreme conditions.

Are pregnant women entitled to the same rights of self-determination and bodily integrity as other adults?

THE studies here presented are the outgrowth of a paper read before the Government Club of Harvard University in February, 1911.

Sixty years after Jessup''s Transnational Law Lectures, this collection traces the field''s development and significance to the present day.

This book explores the current state of society in Europe in general and the regimes and societies of the Western Balkans in particular.

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach that covers linguistics and jurisprudence, shows the interconnectedness of law and language, singles out major theories related to the emergence of the concept of trust and discusses them from the perspective of legal linguistics.

This book examines human rights and penitentiary law in Central Eastern European and Latin American countries from a comparative perspective.

This book contains the first major comparative study of litigation costs and methods of funding litigation in more than 30 jurisdictions.

Since the founding of the Zionist movement until today, the question of the relationship between church and state in Israel remains unresolved, resulting in a continuous legal and social conflict among Israelis.

This book provides in-depth insights into the regulatory frameworks of five countries and the EU concerning the regulation of genome edited plants.

The field of socio-legal research has encountered three fundamental challenges over the last three decades - it has been criticized for paying insufficient attention to legal doctrine, for failing to develop a sound theoretical foundation and for not keeping pace with the effects of the increasing globalization and internationalization of law, state and society.

Proposes a theoretical link between general vitiating factors in English law and compares this with international statements of contractual principle.

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

This book analyses enrichment law and its development and underpinning in social culture within three geographical regions: the United States, western members of the European Union and the late Ottoman Empire.

It is with great pleasure that as Chairman of the Section on Business Law of the International Bar Association I write this foreword to a series of handbooks on maritime law which have been prepared by the Committee on Maritime and Transport Law of our Section.

This book deals with the implementation of the rights of the child as enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 21 countries from Europe, Asia, Australia, and the USA.

This book offers a detailed overview of the rules regarding criminal investigations into financial-economic criminality in the EU's main legal systems.

This book looks at the Soviet style of law that was adopted slowly in the West during the twentieth century.

This book sheds light on the latest trends in environmental law by analyzing some of the main sectors of law, including administrative law, constitutional law, EU law, US Law,  and human rights law.

This book adopts an international perspective to examine how the online sale of insurance challenges the insurance regulation and the insurance contract, with a focus on insurance sales, consumer protection, cyber risks and privacy, as well as dispute resolution.

The cases analysed involve litigation concerning a disparate range of contemporary US culture wars  including equity in access to public services unrestricted by religious bias,  resistance to the teaching of historical facts relating to racial tensions in America including the so-called 'critical race theory' debate, the right of schoolchildren to exposure concerning a diversity of views, current USSC litigation about US university admissions policy that considers 'race' (ethnicity) as one factor amongst many in admission,  contemporary cases concerning the constitutionality of US abortion law grounded on Roe v Wade and the scope of State and indigenous sovereign powers  These contemporary culture war US landmark cases are then compared to similar cases in non-US jurisdictions and courts to consider in more depth the underlying core issues in these cases.

The book continues to use quantitative and empirical research methods to summarize and analyze the achievements of government openness in China in 2020.

The new edition of this seminal text outlines the fundamental aspects of the German approach to criminal procedure.

This book examines the international, regional and domestic human rights frameworks that establish victim rights as a central force in law and policy in the twenty-first century.

Identifies a set of principles and corresponding tax settings that countries may apply to cross-border income derived by, through, or from a trust.

Alan Paterson argues that, in a democracy, legal institutions are too important to be defined and controlled by lawyers alone.

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

China (the Mainland of PRC) trades with other states in trillions of USD every year, and about 95% of the cargoes are carried by ocean-going ships calling at hundreds of Chinese ports each singe day.

This edited volume examines two recent Central European recodifications of civil law.

Although its concern is jurisprudence, The Tapestry of the Law is intended to offer neither an original theory of or about law nor an account of other people's theories in textbook form.

This book explores the implications of banning people from public space for the rule of law, fundamental rights, and democracy.

Climate change is affecting the Arctic environment and ecosystems at an accelerating speed, twice the rate of the global average.

This volume focuses on the ethical significance of human rights, aiming at contributing to a universal culture of human rights with deep roots and wide horizons.

This book investigates pesticide compliance in China in order to provide a more comprehensive understanding of compliance and offers some feasible and adaptable suggestions for enhancing the effectiveness of this compliance.

The contributions to this volume were written by historians, legal historians and art historians, each using his or her own methods and sources, but all concentrating on topics from the broad subject of historical legal iconography.

The decisions courts make in constitutional rights cases pervade our political life and touch on our most basic interests and values.