Comparative law

Brings together experts to provide the first comprehensive analysis of issues related to copyright in street art and graffiti.

This volume contributes to the on-going legal discussion on pressing procedural and substantial law issues in the ambit of international human rights and civil liberties.

The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies provides a forum for the scrutiny of significant issues in European Union Law, the Law of the Council of Europe, and Comparative Law with a "e;European"e; dimension, and particularly those which have come to the fore during the year preceding publication.

Corporate Criminal Liability is on the rise worldwide: More and more legal systems now include genuinely criminal sanctioning for legal entities.

This book aims to analyse the legal tools that the legislatures of France, Germany and Italy adopted in order to regulate medical malpractice.

Even today, class discrimination remains an important global legal issue.

This volume provides an essential update on current thinking, practice and research into the use of restorative justice in the area of family violence.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the relationship between EU citizenship, the European arrest warrant (EAW), and the legality principle.

A novel experiment in comparative legal history, exploring the legal world in England during two different periods.

This book is the first analysis of parental care regimes in Muslim jurisdictions, both in a comparative and country-specific sense.

The Marketization of Religion provides a novel theoretical understanding of the relationship between religion and economy of today's world.

Examines how contemporary relations between indigenous and Western nations are shaped by the dynamics of power, the politics of property, and the apologetics of law.

This book is a collection of papers that address a fundamental question: What is the role of civil justice and civil procedure in the various national traditions in the contemporary world?

This book takes a comprehensive approach to investigate how Sharia influences and manifests in the everyday lives of young Muslims, aiming to unravel the meaning and relevance of Sharia-driven laws and practices in English-speaking Western societies.

This book presents the results of extensive international comparative research into the effects of the economic and financial crisis on democratic institutions and social cohesion policies.

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

In recent years, controversy has surrounded the role of top government lawyers in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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 volume explores the form and function of constitutions in countries without the fully articulated institutions of limited government.

Comparing four key branches of private law in China and Taiwan, this collaborative and novel book demystifies the ''China puzzle''.

This book examines the current law on the employment status of ministers of religion together with religious workers and volunteers and suggests reforms in this area of the law to meet the need for ministers to be given a degree of employment protection.

Cooperation across borders requires both knowledge of and understanding of different cultures.

Based on legal-philosophical research, and informed by insights gleaned from empirical case studies, this book sets out three central claims about integration requirements as conditions for attaining increased rights (ie family migration, permanent residency and citizenship) in Europe:(1) That the recent proliferation of these (mandatory) integration requirements is rooted in a shift towards 'individualised' conceptions of integration.

This book discusses the overall development and use of smart courts from the perspective of system-of-systems engineering (SoSE) and its methodology, analyzes the relationships between the components, structures, environments, and functions of various systems, and illustrates the basic approaches to system design, specification, integration, operation and management.

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 book puts the spotlight on a different and neglected aspect of law drafting and reform: the question of size.

Legal pluralism involves the coexistence of multiple forms of law.

The book focuses on the legal framework for the use of the bridging clauses of Article 48(7) TEU as well as on parliamentary participation in the process of activating these clauses.

This volume identifies and elaborates on the significance and functions of the various actors involved in the development of family law in the Middle East.

Die Dissertation von Ulrich Wilke beleuchtet, wie unterschiedliche Rechtsordnungen mit der Nachlassbindung durch Vor- und Nacherbschaft, Dauertestamentsvollstreckung, Stiftungserrichtung oder funktional vergleichbare Rechtsinstitute wie die libéralités graduelles des reformierten französischen Erbrechts oder den trust der anglo-amerikanischen Rechtsordnungen umgehen.

This book focuses on an emerging problem in English contract law: what should be done when a party has been unjustly enriched as the result of a breach of contract but there is no measurable loss suffered by said party?

This book is about the regulation of corporations that use bribery in international commerce to win or maintain overseas business contracts and interests.

This book discusses options for an improved compliance system under the Paris Climate Agreement by addressing  current weaknesses.

This collection presents a detailed analysis of European concepts of unconscionability in financial transactions, against a backdrop of harmonisation initiatives.

Implied constitutional principles form part of the landscape of the development of fundamental rights in common law jurisdictions, affecting issues ranging from the remuneration of judges to the appropriation of property by the state.

This work explores the operation and regulation of copyright collective management in Nigeria.

Dieses Buch widmet sich grundlegenden Fragen des Sachenrechts und des Mobiliarkreditsicherungsrechts.

Modern legal history is increasingly interested in exploring the development of legal systems from novel and nuanced approaches.

This book analyses large-scale land investments for agricultural purposes in Africa's least developed countries from a law and economics perspective.

This book investigates judicial deference to the administration in judicial review, a concept and legal practice that can be found to a greater or lesser degree in every constitutional system.

This book sets out and explores the case for a modernised impeachment process for the United Kingdom.

The reports collected in this book were prepared at the initiative and under the auspices of the Project on International Procedure of the School of Law of Columbia University within the framework of its co-operation with the Commission on International Rules of Judicial Procedure, a body created by Act of Congress of September 2, 1958, 72 Stat.

Aoife O''Donoghue explains why normative constitutionalism must underpin the global constitutionalisation debate if it is to realise its critical potential.