Comparative law

This book presents the evolution of Italian administrative law in the context of the EU, describing its distinctive features and comparing it with other experiences across Europe.

This English translation makes available to anglophone readers a modern classic of German tort theory.

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.

Nordic law is often referred to as something different from other legal systems.

This book shows how the legal systems of individual European countries protect patient autonomy.

A dialogue between international responsibility lawyers and legal philosophers laying the groundwork for new research and legal reform.

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.

The cases analysed involve litigation concerning a disparate range of contemporary US culture wars  including equity in access to public services unrestricted by religious bias,  resistance to the teaching of historical facts relating to racial tensions in America including the so-called 'critical race theory' debate, the right of schoolchildren to exposure concerning a diversity of views, current USSC litigation about US university admissions policy that considers 'race' (ethnicity) as one factor amongst many in admission,  contemporary cases concerning the constitutionality of US abortion law grounded on Roe v Wade and the scope of State and indigenous sovereign powers  These contemporary culture war US landmark cases are then compared to similar cases in non-US jurisdictions and courts to consider in more depth the underlying core issues in these cases.

This book addresses the need for deeper understanding of regulatory and policy regimes around the world in relation to the use of water for the production of 'unconventional' hydrocarbons, including shale gas, coal bed methane and tight oil, through hydraulic fracturing.

Explains the role of property law in growth and development over five centuries and across several different countries and cultures.

State regulation of civil society is expanding yet widely contested, often portrayed as illegitimate intrusion.

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

Revealing analysis of how judges work as individuals and collectively to uphold judicial values in the face of contemporary challenges.

This book presents case studies on the human rights performance of state-owned enterprises from four Latin American and three European countries, as well as foreign investments by Chinese state-owned enterprises on these continents.

Examines schemes of arrangement, which are an invaluable tool for companies in restructuring their capital.

This book examines law and religion from the perspective of its case law.

This collection of socio-legal studies, written by leading theorists and researchers from around the world, offers original, perceptive and critical contributions to ideas and theories that have been expounded by Roger Cotterrell over a long and distinguished career.

This book addresses the question of how competition authorities assess mergers in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector so as to promote competition in innovation.

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This book explores labor and competition law in 14 jurisdictions and globally, addressing cutting-edge questions in the legal organization of markets.

This book analyses enrichment law and its development and underpinning in social culture within three geographical regions: the United States, western members of the European Union and the late Ottoman Empire.

This book explores the political, economic and regulatory context in which credit regulation is taking place following the global financial crisis.

This book presents the results of a two-year international research project conducted for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) to investigate and provide solutions for reducing bribery and corruption in corporations and institutions.

Can traditional approaches to criminal jurisdiction adapt to the new global reality of the digital era?

Scholars from political science and law examine the latest research on the constitutionalization of politics in comparative perspective.

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

This book assesses stability guarantees through the lens of the legitimate expectations principle to offer a new perspective on the stability concept in international energy investments.

This publication entitled Encyclopaedia of World Legal, Judicial and Court Systems is truly global in terms of content, scope and coverage.

Cultural Difference on Trial: The Nature and Limits of Judicial Understanding comprises a sustained philosophical exploration of the capacity of the modern liberal democratic legal system to understand the thought and practice of those culturally different minorities who come before it as claimants, defendants or witnesses.

The fourth volume of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) presents nine new articles offering scholarly insights into a variety of legal issues, with a special focus on the countries of Southeast Europe.

In The Dual Penal State, Markus Dubber addresses the rampant use of penal power in Western liberal democracies.

Written by experts from within their communities, this book compares the legal regimes of Christian churches as systems of religious law.

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

The book provides a comparative analysis of the law relating to remedies for breach of contract.

For fifty years, the first edition of The Italian Legal System has been the gold standard among English-language works on the Italian legal system.

The papers in this collection are drawn from a symposium held in Vienna in December 2010.

Germany has long been at the centre of European debates surrounding the modern role of national constitutional law and its relationship with EU law.

remains a must read for practitioners and academics interested in more than the substantive law of trans-border commercial activity.

This book draws on concrete cases of collaboration between anthropologists and legal practitioners to critically assess the use of anthropological expertise in a variety of legal contexts from the point of view of the anthropologist as well as of the decision-maker or legal practitioner.

Following events such as the 2008 credit crunch and financial crisis, many sectors of the economy suffered; nevertheless, reinsurance managed to maintain its strong position in the market industry and the global economic arena.

This book is a comparative study of international practices in bankruptcy law, providing perspectives from a variety of specialisms including practitioners, lawyers, bankers, accountants and judges from the United Arab Emirates, the UK and Singapore.

In this book, Eldar Haber describes how copyright has become over-criminalized.

In this volume, ownership is defined as the simple fact of being able to describe something as 'mine' or 'yours', and property is distinguished as the discursive field which allows the articulation of attendant rights, relationships, and obligations.

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.