Comparative law

First comparative study of major special needs financial planning mechanisms, namely guardianship, enduring/lasting powers of attorney, and special needs trusts.

An exploration of the tension between human rights and patent law, with reference to developing countries'' access to affordable medicines.

As individuals travel across borders, societies have become more and more pluralistic.

This major collection contains selected papers from the second Public Law Conference, an international conference hosted by the University of Cambridge in September 2016.

This curated book addresses, in the scholarly realm, the problems of soil degradation and provides some practical solutions for them to save soil life.

This book aims to describe the mechanisms of the internal wholesale electricity market in terms of the legal tools and practices used by electricity producers, the most important market participants.

Disgorgement of profits is not exactly a household word in private law.

In the aftermath of the last financial crisis, on both sides of the Atlantic banking supervisors were given new supervisory and enforcement powers, which are often of a substantially punitive-criminal nature.

This book focuses on the enforcement aspect of tobacco control policy, and argues that the intense regulation of the tobacco market will never be successful as long as it can be circumvented by the availability of illicit tobacco products.

The Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law is an advanced level reference work which surveys the current state of constitutional law.

This book employs methods from comparative law to analyze voluntary migration, exploring the free movement of immigrants and their freedom of settlement under Brazilian and Mercosul law, as well as under German law and the European Union's legal framework on migration.

This book focuses on the changing role of judges in courts, tribunals, and other forums across a variety of jurisdictions.

This collection adopts a distinctive method and structure to introduce the work of Italian constitutional law scholars into the Anglophone dialogue while also bringing a number of prominent non-Italian constitutional law scholars to study and write about constitutional justice in a global context.

This second edition examines judicial independence as an aspect of democratization based on the premise that democracy cannot be consolidated without the rule of law of which judicial independence is an indispensable part.

This book addresses emerging questions concerning who should bear responsibility for shouldering risk, as well as the viability of existing and experimental governance mechanisms in connection with new technologies.

This volume contributes to the growing field of comparative Jewish and American law, presenting twenty-six essays characterized by a number of distinct features.

This volume offers a critical analysis and illustration of the challenges and promises of 'stateless' law thought, pedagogy and approaches to governance - that is, understanding and conceptualizing law in a post-national condition.

The first transnational comparative study of legal party capability theory Justice is supposed to be blind.

Controversial erosions of individual liberties in the name of anti-terrorism are ongoing in liberal democracies.

This book explores multidisciplinary perspectives on critical issues in space from the viewpoints of New Zealand and other nations.

This book focuses on one part of the judicial system: the criminal justice chain.

The overarching objective of this volume is to discuss and critique the legal regulation of human trafficking in national and transnational context.

The book provides deep insights into heritage politics in Myanmar on the basis of the conservation history of Bagan and its entanglement in national politics.

Transnational tendencies have led to a pluralistic legal environment in which emerging and established legal actors, regulatory levels and types of legal norms co-exist, compete and interact in complex ways.

This book explores the relationship between copyright law, online anonymity, and creative user-generated content (CUGC).

A new and comprehensive account of the South African Constitutional Court''s social rights decisions.

The Constitutional Courts of Small Jurisdictions identifies features and challenges common to the constitutional courts of small state jurisdictions in Europe.

This book presents a comprehensive assessment of regional responses to the crisis in the asylum/refugee system and critically examines how different regions tackle the problem.

In the last few years, the quantity of books and papers on the political, economic and legal problems of the exploration and use of the sea and marine resources has considerably increased.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of globalization on the legal profession in India.

This book explores how the domestic law of states is increasingly accompanied by a ''global law'' distinct from regional and international law.

Although employers are required to pay compensation for employee inventions under the laws in many countries, existing legal literature has never critically examined whether such compensation actually gives employee inventors an incentive to invent as the legislature intends.

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

Hate Speech and Human Rights.

This volume provides an overview of selected major areas of legal and institutional development in Lithuania since the Restoration of Independence in 1990.

This book contains selected contributions presented during the workshop "e;Establishing Filiation: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law?

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 work presents a thorough investigation of existing rules and features of the treatment of foreign law in various jurisdictions.

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 book identifies and explains the different national approaches to data protection - the legal regulation of the collection, storage, transmission and use of information concerning identified or identifiable individuals - and determines the extent to which they could be harmonised in the foreseeable future.

It has been over 50 years since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories.

This book presents an in-depth discussion on two concepts from the field of philosophy and law, in order to improve our understanding of the relation between "e;fact"e; and "e;evidence"e; in judicial process.