Comparative law

Government, in all of its guises, plays a significant, controversial, and sometimes hidden, role in class actions reform and litigation.

This book challenges the idea that the Rule of Law is still a universal European value given its relatively rapid deterioration in Hungary and Poland, and the apparent inability of the European institutions to adequately address the illiberalization of these Member States.

This volume explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and disability settings.

This book analyses the voluminous and meandering case law on gambling of the Court of Justice from an empirical perspective.

While worldwide crime is declining overall, criminality in Latin America has reached unprecedented levels that have ushered in social unrest and political turmoil.

This timely volume discusses the much debated and controversial subject of the presence of religion in the public sphere.

The fifth volume of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) discusses diverse and actual legal topics of international and comparative dimensions and angles.

Words in both law and religion can shape power relationships and are often highly disputed.

Human rights have transformed the way in which we conceive the place of the individual within the community and in relation to the state in a vast array of disciplines, including law, philosophy, politics, sociology, geography.

Since the coming into force of the United Nations Law of the Sea, states have been targeting outlying islands to expand their exclusive economic zones, simultaneously stirring up strident nationalism when such plans clash with those of neighbouring states.

This book in its entirety as well as in each of its parts is an outline of the problems under discussion.

With industrialization and globalization, corporations acquired the capacity to influence social life for good or for ill.

The mismatch between goals and means is a major cause of crisis in labour law.

This book seeks to trace the notarial history of China from 1902 to 1979.

This book examines how voluntary sustainability standards can be used to both regulate and coordinate producers in industries.

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.

Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions is both a roadmap for navigating the intellectual universe of constitutional amendments and a blueprint for building and improving the rules of constitutional change.

This book offers a socio-legal exploration of localised consumer complaint processing and dispute resolution in the People's Republic of China – now the second largest consumer market in the world – and the experiences of both ordinary and 'professional' consumers.

This book brings together contributions from academics and practitioners to explore the implications of legal pluralism for legal development.

This book argues that national and international courts seek to enhance their reputations through the strategic exercise of judicial power.

This book looks at regulation, policy and implementation of framework agreements, supplier lists and other similar public procurement tools, with a strategic and pragmatic perspective.

A broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, and context-rich exploration of the fields of constitutional studies and comparative constitutional law for research and teaching.

Despite ever growing international trade and dispute settlement, a consistent international methodology of uniform private law has yet to be formed.

Nations throughout the world receive more patent applications, grant more patents, and entertain more patent infringement lawsuits than ever before.

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.

Contingency planning and resilience are of prime importance to the late modern risk society, with implications for law and for governance arrangements.

This book is a collection of studies of drug policies in several Latin American countries.

Economic development increasingly depends to a large extent on innovation.

Canon Law: A Comparative Study with Anglo-American Legal Theory, by the Reverend John J.

This book discusses critical thinking as a tool for more compassionate leadership, presenting tried and tested methods for managing disagreement, for anticipating and solving problems, and for enhancing empathy.

This collection critically explores the use of financial technology (FinTech) and artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial sector and discusses effective regulation and the prevention of crime.

This book examines modern trends in intelligence oversight development and how these mechanisms bolster an internal security system, increasing the secrecy of the intelligence enterprise.

American legal scholars have debated for some time the need for a cultural defense in criminal proceedings where minority cultural information seems perti nent to a finding of criminal responsibility in situations where a minority cultural defendant has violated a valid criminal statute.

This book points to a crisis at the heart of modern family law's treatment of "e;collaborative family-making"e;: gamete contributions, surrogate motherhood, adoption, functional parenthood, foster care, and kin caregiving.

This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa.

International courts and tribunals are increasingly asked to pass judgment on matters that are traditionally considered to fall within the domestic jurisdiction of States.

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

The European Yearbook of Constitutional Law (EYCL) is an annual publication devoted to the study of constitutional law.

This volume presents a comparative examination of the issue of fault in criminal law.

Thisbook addresses issues concerning the shifting contemporary meaning of legalcertainty.

1t gives me great pleasure as Chairman of the Section on Business Law to write a foreword to this, the second volume in a series of books on Maritime Law.

This book examines the role and impact of EU, international human rights and refugee law on national laws and policies for integration and argues for a broad understanding of the relationship between integration and the law.

This book takes a law and economic approach to examine the securities law enforcement in China and provides an in-depth empirical analysis on the enforcement inputs and outputs.

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.

Comparative analysis of vindicatio, possessory remedies and trespass across sixteen European jurisdictions based on twelve straightforward factual cases.

Vaccine Law and Policy is the first book on vaccine law and policy written specifically for the general public or an educated lay audience without legal background.