Comparative law

This book looks at why and how states should legally ban LGBTQ+ 'conversion therapy'.

Following significant changes in the legal profession since the 1980s, how do new organizational forms and actors at the edge of the law impact upon our understanding of the changing nature of the core values of mainstream legal professionalism?

What is the future of constitutionalism, state and law in the new technological age?

This book explores the judiciary's role in achieving substantive equality utilising statutory discrimination law.

Traditionally, human rights have protected those facing the sharp edge of the criminal justice system.

All nation states, whether ancient or newly created, must examine their constitutional fundamentals to keep their constitutions relevant and dynamic.

This book examines the extent to which Brexit has impacted upon the operation of the British Constitution, prompting in turn consideration of how some of the factors which contributed to the outcome of the 2016 referendum, as well as the event of Brexit itself, might inform debates surrounding constitutional reform moving forward.

This book includes guiding cases of the Supreme People's Court, cases deliberated on by the Judicial Committee of the Supreme People's Court and cases discussed at the Joint Meeting of Presiding Judges from various tribunals.

Acclaimed as the "e;the most objective prosecutors in the world"e;, the German prosecution service has long attracted the attention in the past of comparative law scholars.

Legal lexicography or jurilexicography is the most neglected aspect of the discipline of jurilinguistics, despite its great relevance for translators, academics and comparative lawyers.

This volume contributes to the growing field of comparative Jewish and American law, presenting twenty-six essays characterized by a number of distinct features.

This 2003 text examines comparative law''s intellectual traditions, the strengths and failings of its methodologies and its future directions.

This book brings together academics and practitioners from a range of disciplines from more than twenty countries to reflect on the growing importance of transparency, power and control in our international community and how these concerns and ideas have been examined, used and interpreted in a range of national and international contexts.

Many jurisdictions in Asia have vested their courts with the power of constitutional review.

How does international criminal procedure differ from any domestic legal principles and why?

This book argues that law has a vital role in shaping the electricity system to enable a more active role for consumers in liberalizsed electricity industries.

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.

This book analyses the legal regimes governing bank crisis management in the EU, UK, and US, discussing the different procedures and tools available as well as the regulatory architecture and the authorities involved.

This book explores how politicians and individuals use state and non-state legal systems to achieve political goals in Chechnya.

This ground-breaking book addresses the challenge of regulatory delivery, defined as the way that regulatory agencies operate in practice to achieve the intended outcomes of regulation.

The fight against terrorism is receiving increased awareness due to recent wor- wide large-scale terrorist acts, and only since then has some attention been directed specifically to victims of terrorism.

This comparative book explores the dynamics driving how courts across Europe and beyond understand and analyse scientific information in nature conservation.

The first in-depth comparative analysis of shareholder stewardship, which reveals the complexities of this global movement that were previously unknown.

This book explores the conceptual framework of European employment law, focusing on understanding the law's construction of employment relationships.

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

Developments of the law in Japan and in Germany provide ample reason for an inquiry into "e;The Identity of Japanese and German Civil Law"e;.

Leading scholars provide a fresh theoretical look at the reasons why many legal development projects fail.

International law is increasingly applied in domestic courts.

This book provides the first in-depth and empirically grounded analysis of the foundations and evolution of the four Latin American and Caribbean regional economic courts: the Central American Court of Justice (CACJ), the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the Andean Tribunal of Justice (ATJ), and the Mercosur Permanent Review Court (MPRC).

The book considers Australian First Nations constitutionalism by drawing on the chthonic constitutional traditions of three distinct Australian First Nations legal orders: the Warlpiri, Yolngu, and Pintupi legal orders, in the endeavour of identifying, via a comparative analysis, a core of similarities to be drawn upon and articulate an emergent legal theory common to the three legal orders.

From a technological standpoint, geography is largely irrelevant.

This book engages in a theological critique of the legal frameworks and theoretical approaches of Australia, the US and England to create a peaceful coexistence of difference which supports both religious freedom and equality.

This book offers insights into the legal mechanisms that are adopted in multilevel constitutional orders to accommodate the tension between contrasting interests of diversity and unity and the converging or diverging effects they may have on the functioning of a multilevel constitutional order.

This book provides a theoretical framework for explaining the choices made by international decision-makers in terms of what constitutes law.

This edited collection, which brings together nearly fifty authors from across the globe and various disciplines, makes a valuable contribution to the field of conservation, covering a wide range of topics regarding the protection of heritage in times of war and peace.

Though recently improved, Chinese legislation on environmental permits is still weak and urgent measures are needed to help the country in moving towards an effective permitting system.

What is the future of constitutionalism, state and law in the new technological age?

This book explores how the EU's enforcement of competition law has moved from centralisation to decentralisation over the years, with the National Competition Authorities embracing more enforcement powers.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in Turkey's labour dispute resolution system, and helps compare the Turkish system especially with those in European countries.

Los medicamentos genericos tienen una eficacia y seguridad contrastada y resultan mas economicos que los medicamentos originales.

The international order is constituted by a plurality of international regimes - institutionalized arrangements in different issue areas that possess their own norms and procedures.

By examining the reasons behind the preventive criminalization of Chinese criminal law, this book argues that the shift of criminal law generates popular expectations of legislative participation, and meets punitive demands of the public, but the expansion of criminal law lacks effective constraints, which will keep restricting people's freedom in the future.

This book explores the insurance sector's potential role, influence, and impact on society in light of new environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns.

This book pursues a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to assess presidential impeachments in Latin America.