Comparative law

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

Der Band wurdigt Stephan Hobe als herausragenden Experten in mannigfachen Bereichen des internationalen Rechts, etwa im Luftrecht, Weltraumrecht, Investitionsrecht und internationalem Wirtschaftsrecht.

This book provides an overall understanding of Chinese labour law and covers many important issues related to the application of Chinese labour law.

Provides the first scholarly and comprehensive book on the national renewable energy laws of every country that has them (113 countries).

This book considers the relationship between proportionality and facts in constitutional adjudication.

This book analyses the doctrinal structure and content of secondary liability rules that hold internet service providers liable for the conduct of others, including the safe harbours (or immunities) of which they may take advantage, and the range of remedies that can be secured against such providers.

The major intellectual interest throughout this book is to offer a study on China's legal legacy, through Liang Shu-ming's eyes.

The economic and geopolitical implications of China's rise have been the subject of vast commentary.

The contributions in this book cover a wide range of topics within modern disputeresolution, which can be summarised as follows: harmonisation, enforcement andalternative dispute resolution.

This volume looks at how courts and the police handle racial discrimination in Europe.

Yaël Ronen examines the tension between the invalidity of the acts of illegal territorial regimes and their effectiveness.

An interdisciplinary and international study addressing conflict of interest in different spheres and at different levels of governance.

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

The global energy sector is in flux, transitioning from reliance on fossil fuels to clean energy sources at an unprecedented pace.

During the past decade, administrative law has experienced remarkable development.

This handbook combines the latest theory on a high-profile, complex subject in criminology, exploring the legal and ethical dimensions of society s response to sex offenders in jurisdictions from the USA to Japan.

This volume examines cases of accommodation and recognition of minority practices: cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic or otherwise, under state law.

This book provides a comparative analysis of Chinese property law as depicted in the newly enacted Chinese Civil Code.

This book invites readers to critically rethink the interrelations between geography and the law.

This book discusses the intensification of international transport services as the consequence of an increasingly capillary economic integration.

This interdisciplinary book brings together leading social and legal scholars to tackle the incompatibility of marriage laws with contemporary social reality in Europe.

For all the attention paid to the Founder Fathers in contemporary American debates, it has almost been wholly forgotten how deeply they embraced an ambitious and intellectually profound valuation of foreign legal experience.

Foreign policy is one of the most complex policies of every state, and Portugal and Iceland are no exception.

The Impact of 9/11 and the New Legal Landscape is the third volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything?

Unjust enrichment is one of the least understood of the major branches of private law.

The book highlights the link between consumers and travellers, identifying the meaning of vulnerability in Brazil and the EU.

As the proverbial workhorse of international economic law, investment arbitration is heavily relied upon around the globe.

A detailed examination of the principle of vicarious liability in tort in both common and civil law legal systems.

This book offers a detailed account of the legal issues concerning the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) by leading experts in the field.

This innovative study presents a genealogy of modern comparative law, examining both theory and practice around the world.

This book addresses the increasing overlap between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and law with a particular focus on company law and corporate governance.

religious values at the office door.

The book analyzes the most relevant developments in the relation between contracts and technology, from automatically concluded contracts to today's revolutionary "e;smart contracts"e; developed through blockchain, which are beginning to and will increasingly disrupt many economic and social relations.

In an era where new areas of life and new problems call for normative solutions while the plurality of values in society challenge the very basis for normative solutions, this book looks at a growing field of research on the relations between social and legal norms.

This collection of 16 essays by 19 contributors calls into question the notion of domestic justiciability across a wide range of human rights issues, such as health, human dignity, criminal justice, property and transitional democracy.

Examines how copyright can evolve without compromising the interests of authors, users and those who connect them.

This book examines how judicial reform can be effectively assessed through a procedural justice approach.

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.

This book reconsiders the use of food metaphors and the relationship between law and food in an interdisciplinary perspective to examine how food related topics can be used to describe or identify rules, norms, or prescriptions of all kinds.

Leading scholars of European constitutionalism highlight different facets of the constitutional discussion.

In Climate Change Law in China in Global Context, seven climate change law scholars explain how the country's legal system is gradually being mobilized to support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in China and achieve adaptation to climate change.

This volume provides a holistic presentation of the reality of constitutional change in 18 countries (the 15 old EU member states, Canada, Switzerland and the USA).

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.

The book provides a discursive reflection on the current challenges facing administrative law, based on a key idea: the defence of the liberal model of society.

Jeffrey Goldsworthy is a renowned constitutional scholar and legal theorist whose work on the powers of Parliament and the interpretation of constitutional and statute laws has helped shape debates on these topics across the English-speaking world.