Comparative law

This collection explores the theme of fragmentation within international economic law following the global financial crisis.

In recent years the Chinese legal system has undergone many reforms and this book brings the literature up to date, offering a contemporary account of the law and administration in China.

Constitutional law provides the legal framework for the Australian political and legal systems, and thus touches almost every aspect of Australian life.

This book is devoted to illustrating the significance of perpetrator-victim relationship, including its status and state, in understanding intimate partner homicide (IPH) in the context of China today after comparing with the findings in the previous studies.

This book deals with adoption laws and practices in small island developing states in the Pacific.

This book argues that judges sacrifice individual rights by using less than their full powers in order to appear democratically legitimate.

This book presents an important discussion on future options for sustainable soil management in Africa from various perspectives, including national soil protection regulations, the role of tenure rights, the work of relevant international institutions such as the UNCCD and FAO, and regional and international cooperation.

Discusses Upendra Baxi''s role as an Indian jurist and how his contributions have shaped our understanding of legal jurisprudence.

This book provides a leading point of reference in the field of partial defences to murder and with respect to the mental condition defences of loss of control and diminished responsibility in general.

Constitutionalism: Past, Present, and Future is the definitive collection of Dieter Grimm's most influential writings on constitutional thought and interpretation.

Leading scholars provide a fresh theoretical look at the reasons why many legal development projects fail.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of international cultural heritage law from the perspectives of non-state actors (NSAs).

Examines the role of emotions in criminal behaviour, and their importance to the attribution of moral and criminal responsibility.

Promoting cultural and scientific creativity, and knowledge and understanding, cultural rights work as atrocity prevention tools and enable people to aspire to a better future.

There have been significant changes in public attitudes towards surveillance in the last few years as a consequence of the Snowden disclosures and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Particularly valuable for both academics and practitioners, Human Rights and the Private Sphere: A Comparative Study analyzes the interaction between constitutional rights, freedoms and private law.

The interaction of faith and the community is a fundamental of modern society.

The fifth volume of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) discusses diverse and actual legal topics of international and comparative dimensions and angles.

Die indische Wirtschaft boomt und wird in den kommenden Jahren zu einem der weltweit wichtigsten M&A-Ziele avancieren.

Explores how proportionality analysis – a legal transplant from the West – is judicially enforced by courts around Asia.

This book explores the complicated relationship between constitutions and transitional justice.

Local government affects us all.

This book provides the first systematic account of the relationship between nationalism and the rule of law.

This book explores the complex package of mechanisms used to identify, record, manage and remediate contaminated land, including the system for allocating liabilities that has been set up by China's contaminated land law and accompanying administrative decrees and environmental standards.

A comparative and collaborative study of the foundational principles and concepts that underpin different domestic systems of criminal law.

The global financial and economic crisis which started in 2008 has had devastating effects around the globe.

This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk.

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.

Judicial decision-making may ideally be impartial, but in reality it is influenced by many different factors, including institutional context, ideological commitment, fellow justices on a panel, and personal preference.

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.

'Why do we vote in schools?

Professor Zhiping Liang offers a new understanding of Chinese legal tradition in this profoundly influential book.

The management of religious and ideological diversity remains a key challenge of our time deeply entangled with debates about the nature of liberal democracy, equality, social cohesion, minorities and nationalism, security and foreign policy.

The present volume compiles the German National Reports on Public Law that are to be presented at the XVIIth Congress of the Inter- tional Academy of Comparative Law, which will take place from 16 - 22 July 2006 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

This collection of essays explores the law of trusts as it is understood in civilian and mixed jurisdictions.

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

Artificial intelligence and related technologies are changing both the law and the legal profession.

This book brings together leading experts in the fields of insurance and the law of obligations to consider how insurance law is attempting to deal with emerging risks.

A collection of essays exploring the gap between theory and practice in comparative legal studies.

2002 wurde mit der Gründung der Afrikanischen Union die afrikanische Sicherheits- und Verteidigungsarchitektur auf eine neue Grundlage gestellt.