Comparative law

This collection deals with challenges confronting public law and public administration in twenty-first century democracies across the world.

Thirteen European jurisdictions solve problems in mistake, fraud or duties to inform in contract law.

Das Buch enthält 19 Landesberichte und eine rechtsvergleichende Analyse der rechtlichen Regelungen zum Verfahren der Genom-Editierung an der menschlichen Keimbahn.

A thorough and timely investigation of both well-established and emerging crime and punishment issues, this book provides readers with compelling examples of how different countries around the world confront these problems.

This innovative textbook provides an introduction into comparative constitutional law to undergraduate and graduate students.

This is a time when the rule of law is seriously challenged, when governments threaten deliberately to break the law, and the independence of justice is jeopardised by unrelenting pressure from both the executive and the media.

Shows how judges work in a deliberative fashion with aligned political parties to re-interpret legal and constitutional text.

This book is concerned with a central question in contemporary legal theory: how to describe global law?

Mainstream historians in recent decades have often treated formal categories and rules as something to be 'used' by individuals, as one might use a stick or stone, and the gains of an earlier legal history are often needlessly set aside.

A multidisciplinary and international examination of the developing debates around using the criminal law to sanction disease transmission.

This book explores the underlying philosophies and values that inform the speech rules that a government or community institutes.

This edited volume covers the challenges currently faced by consumer law in Europe and the United States, ranging from fundamental theoretical questions, such as what goals consumer law should pursue, to practical questions raised by disclosure requirements, the General Data Protection Regulation and technology advancements.

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

This book explores the challenge that the commons present to the private-public dichotomy in a wide variety of national legal systems representing the West European legal tradition as well as post-socialist and post-colonial experiences.

This book is intended to promote discussion and understanding of customary law and to explore its continued relevance in sub-Saharan Africa.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the teaching of an eclectic range of family law topics and the unique opportunities and challenges of teaching family law in different jurisdictions from a varied international perspective.

Applies comparative and theoretical perspectives to not-for-profit law, taxation and regulation to deepen understanding of the sector.

This book examines US recourse to military force in the post-9/11 era.

First English-language comparative volume to study where, how and why tort and crime interact.

Marriage migration is a controversial and problematic issue in the UK as elsewhere in Europe.

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

The book presents contributions from Brazilian experts on the regulation of different energy sources.

The concept of 'employee' is arguably the most important one in labour law, defining, as it does, the scope of the discipline as a whole.

This book demonstrates creative ways law can regulate corporate social responsibility and address governance challenges in national and transnational contexts.

This book explores the various types of Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR) applied in Nigeria, the UK, and the US.

The American prosecutor plays a powerful role in the judicial system, wielding the authority to accept or decline a case, choose which crimes to allege, and decide the number of counts to charge.

This book focusses on the developing role that the city currently plays in dealing with the effects of climate change and the instruments that can be utilised to make them truly green.

An analysis of the features of both governmental regulation of non-profit organizations and self-regulation by non-profit sectors themselves.

This book focuses on the subject of choice of law as a whole and provides an analysis of its various rules, principles, doctrines and concepts.

The contributions to this volume focus on a diverse array of topics in international law, with scholarly interventions from experts in the field, both in academia and the judiciary, as well as case commentary on a recent decision of the International Court of Justice (Chagos Decision).

This collection presents an analysis of the concept of secession and its constitutional accommodation alongside an assessment of the effects of secession in constitutional and international law.

Exploring the advantages and disadvantages of codifying contract law, this book considers the question from the perspectives of both civil and common law systems, referring in detail to issues of international and consumer law.

The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law was first published in 1970.

This book deals with the research and use of embryonic stem cells to combat a number of diseases and the legal limitations, arising mostly from bioethical concerns regarding human life.

This book explains why contemporary liberal democracies are based on historical templates rather than revolutionary reforms.

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology is a ground-breaking collection of essays that provides an original and internationally framed conception of the historical, theoretical, and ethnographic interconnections of law and anthropology.

This volume features papers written in honor of Mauro Bussani, and celebrates the work and contributions of this renowned scholar of comparative law.

The last twenty years have seen an unprecedented rise in the use of secret courts or 'closed material proceedings' largely brought about in response to the need to protect intelligence sources in the fight against terrorism.

The need for suppressing the illicit traffic in drugs can hardly be over-emphasized.

This book brings together leading scholars from the next generation of UK criminal lawyers to celebrate the work of GR Sullivan, Emeritus Professor at University College London, in the year of his retirement from writing Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine.

This book explains, compares and assesses the legal implications of Dieselgate within a range of selected jurisdictions and at the EU, international and comparative law level.

The national-conservative government of Hungary has been heavily criticised for its violation of EU values, primarily, the rule of law in recent years.