Comparative law

This book offers a new and differentiated overview of Agri-Food Law against the background of national and global integration of markets, and compares for the first time important aspects of the agricultural, environmental and food law of China and Germany / the European Union.

Eine immer größer werdende Zahl deutscher Patienten begibt sich zur medizinischen Behandlung gezielt ins Ausland.

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).

This book examines the role, the general framework and the empirical effectiveness of the main alternative dispute resolution tools (administrative appeals, mediation, and ombudsman) in administrative matters, within the broader context of the administrative justice system.

Taking a critical look at the major areas of constitutional and administrative law, Commonwealth Caribbean Public Law places a firm emphasis on the protection of citizens' rights and good governance.

It is fairly easy for a Finnish Jurist to understand German Company law.

This book presents a comprehensive study on how twenty-three countries have approached the issue of company groups.

This book deals with the development of constitutional law in China and Visegrad states by employing a comparative perspective.

The first systematic study of the most important types of arbitration - and their limits - from a constitutional perspective.

This book provides a critical socio-legal study that brings together the latest scholarly advances on corporate social responsibility, and, at the same time, addresses the pressing issue of corporate liability for harmful acts across the supply and production chains.

What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place to another?

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

Despite the economic relevance of trade secrets, their legal protection is not based on a robust theoretical corpus, and a large uncertainty remains regarding how they should be legally apprehended.

Leading historical research analysing the history of judges and judging, allowing comparisons between British, American, Commonwealth and Civil Law jurisdictions.

In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Jud Mathews focus on the law and politics of rights protection in democracies, and in human rights regimes in Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

This book presents a short history and timeline of criminal procedure legislation in China.

This book delves into the transformative efforts that sought to redefine punishment and rehabilitation, highlighting the pivotal role of Community Service Orders (CSO) and the legislative push to abandon the use of Short-Term Prison Sentences (STPS) for fine default.

This volume presents a leading contribution to the substantive arena relating to homicide in the criminal law.

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This short book on comparative law theory and method is designed primarily for postgraduate research students whose work involves comparison between legal systems.

Kenya, like the rest of Africa, has gone through three sets of constitutional crises.

In recent years the Chinese legal system has undergone many reforms and this book brings the literature up to date, offering a contemporary account of the law and administration in China.

This book presents a comparative study on access to public information in the context of the main legal orders worldwide(inter alia China,France,Germany,Japan,Russia,Sweden,United States).

This text collates and examines the jurisprudence that currently exists in respect of blood-tied genetic connection, arguing that the right to identity often rests upon the ability to identify biological ancestors, which in turn requires an absence of adult-centric veto norms.

Legal pluralism involves the coexistence of multiple forms of law.

An examination of the legal framework of the EU internal market.

This book theorizes illiberal constitutionalism by interrogation of the Rule of Law, democratic deterioration, and the misuse of the language and relativization of human rights protection, and its widespread emotional and value-oriented effect on the population.

Biotechnology is vital to counter biological and toxin weapons.

The topics addressed in this book have traditionally been covered in separate publications on civil and commercial law.

This comparative appraisal of competition law and policy draws on examples from both the developed and the developing worlds.

In dem vorliegenden Buch wird die Zulässigkeit einer ärztlichen Mitwirkung an verbotenen Kinderwunschbehandlungen im Ausland analysiert.

This set of essays explores how constitutions change and are changed in a number of countries, and how the 'constitution' of the EU changes and is changed.

Over the last decade, Europe has been struggling to cope with a series of significant and challenging global crises.

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

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

Der Autor untersucht die so genannten Leitentscheidungen des Obersten Volksgerichts der Volksrepublik China.

This book examines rights issues in relation to visual privacy in the use of civilian drones.

This exploration of penal censure is inspired by the 40th anniversary of the publication of Andreas von Hirsch's Doing Justice, which opened up a fresh set of issues in theorisation about punishment that eventually led von Hirsch to ground his proposed model of desert-based sentencing on the notion of penal censure.

This book presents an ethnography of dispute processing by non-state forums and actors in rural India.

This collection of essays explores the evolution of anti-discrimination law in European civil law jurisdictions.

This 2003 study uses a fact-based comparative method and in-depth research into the laws of thirteen European countries.

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

The world appears to be globalising economically, technologically and even, to a halting extent, politically.

Advocates for a dignified constitutional democracy aimed at enabling fraternal conversation within the framework of a community of equals.