Comparative law

This is a book on "e;equity in the civil law tradition"e; from the double perspective of legal history and comparative law.

THE CONSCIENCE OF JUDGES AND APPLICA nON OF LEGAL RULES The book is devoted to the problem of the influence of moral judgements on the result of judicial decision-making in the process of application of the established (positive) law.

This book provides new insights into police cooperation from a comparative socio-legal perspective.

The book explores the WIPO journey so far and looks at how relevant the treaties are in contemporary world after 25 years of their existence.

The EU and the US are the preeminent examples of multi-level polities and both have highly developed competition policies.

The human rights issues in Japan are multifaceted.

This is the third edition of a comparative analysis of the constitution of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and the United States, giving particular attention to the effect of judicial interpretation of legislation in each of these countries.

The information society is a key issue in everyday life and a phenomenon enc- passing social, cultural, economic, and legal facettes.

This work considers the role of local government in 13 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Written by leading experts in the field, this collection offers a critical and comparative analysis of the existing case law on international investment law.

This book is the inaugural edition of the Nigerian Yearbook of International Law.

This book provides updated, full-picture analysis of the laws and practices of cross-border debt finance in the PRC.

This book provides a complement to Dicey's The Law of the Constitution.

Der Band dokumentiert ein deutsch-polnisches Symposium anlässlich des 20-jährigen Bestehens der Schule des deutschen Rechts an der Jagiellonen-Universität Krakau.

Peace referendums', which seek to manage conflict between warring groups, are increasingly common.

Since World War I scholars and practitioners alike have addressed themselves to defining and assessing the "e;new diplomacy,"e; which the British diplomatist Harold Nicolson has branded the "e;American method.

The world is changing.

When the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty entered into force on 14 January 1998, a new phase commenced for the Antarctic Treaty System.

What drives popular support for state-enforced competition policy?

The notion of property in work has deep historical roots in the common law tradition, but is yet to receive the attention it deserves.

This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing international themes in mental health, disability and criminal law.

This compilation represents the first study to examine the historical evolution and shifting global dynamics of policing across the Lusophone community.

This book provides the first in-depth and empirically grounded analysis of the foundations and evolution of the four Latin American and Caribbean regional economic courts: the Central American Court of Justice (CACJ), the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the Andean Tribunal of Justice (ATJ), and the Mercosur Permanent Review Court (MPRC).

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

The international carriage of goods by sea has been regulated by international conventions.

This collection examines theoretical and practical issues concerning the relationship between freedom of religion or belief and other fundamental rights, in the context of secular States, from the perspective of human dignity.

The protection of fundamental rights in the field of transnational criminal inquiries is of great delicateness in the current tangled web of domestic and international legal sources.

This book provides the first detailed analysis of the decision to prosecute made by the statutory Australian Offices of Director of Prosecution.

A unique comparative analysis of Chinese contract law accessible to lawyers from civil, common, and mixed law jurisdictions.

Der Autor beschreibt die in der Praxis besonders bedeutsamen Finanzierungsinstrumente nach islamischem Recht (sukuk) und präsentiert eine Einführung in die Grundlagen der islamischen Rechtsquellen und der Methode der Entscheidungsfindung.

This book provides a systematic and detailed introduction to the formation process and current development of China's socialist legal system.

Examines the public law of gender and equality from the perspectives of comparative constitutional law, international law and governance.

This book analyzes the benefits of and legal concerns in connection with the delegated legislation of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone as a prime example of experimental legislation in Chinese law.

Das Werk ist die juristische Einführung in die Methodik der islamischen Jurisprudenz in deutscher Sprache.

This book explores the coming into being in European Union (EU) law of the fundamental right to personal data protection.

This Handbook is the first comprehensive account of comparative environmental law.

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.

Beyondthe Courtroom provides a compilation of articles and chaptersby a dispute resolution scholar who has maderemarkable contributions over his thirty-year career.

Copyright is not one-size-fits-all.

The first empirical analysis of leniency programmes implemented in Asian countries to enforce the anti-cartel provisions of their competition law.