Comparative law

This book provides a comprehensive review of the Measures for Administration of Takeover of Chinese Listed Companies (the Chinese takeover law), with emphasis on the differences between the Chinese takeover law and takeover legislation in the UK, the US and Hong Kong.

In this meticulously researched volume, Leonard Wood presents his ground breaking history of Islamic revivalist thought in Islamic law.

This book examines how nature is constructed through law, building on the constructivist concept that ''nature'' is a self-perpetuating, self-reinforcing social creation.

This book discusses the overall development and use of smart courts from the perspective of system-of-systems engineering (SoSE) and its methodology, analyzes the relationships between the components, structures, environments, and functions of various systems, and illustrates the basic approaches to system design, specification, integration, operation and management.

Examines and compares East Asian and European perspectives of Global Constitutionalism.

This book focuses on the financing of religions, examining some European church-state models, using a philosophical methodology.

This collection discusses the concept of fraternity and examines the issue of its role in law.

This new edition considers a wide range of materials dealing with dispute processes and current debates on civil justice.

This book selects leading, innovative and influential Chinese maritime judgments and presents full translation of them, with brief summary, to the readers so that they can have insights of how the Chinese maritime judges interpret, apply and develop Chinese maritime law in practice.

Private law has long been the focus of efforts to explain wider developments of law in an era of globalisation.

Today, pluralism is increasingly the norm and can be seen as a permanent characteristic of modernity.

An estimated 35 million people worldwide are displaced by conflict, and most of them are women and children.

This book asserts that the Pacific Islands continue to struggle with the colonial legacy of plural legal systems, comprising laws and legal institutions from both the common law and the customary legal system.

This book examines the best language fair trial practices of the courts in arguably the most multilingual region of the world.

Constitutionalising Secession proceeds from the question, 'What, if anything, does the law have to say about a secession crisis?

This collection brings together some of the most influential sociologists of law to confront the challenges of current transnational constitutionalism.

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

The study and teaching of international human rights law is dominated by the doctrinal method.

This collection of case studies from fourteen European legal systems analyses the legal protection of personality interests in Europe.

International Copyright: Principles, Law, and Practice surveys and analyzes the legal doctrines affecting copyright practice around the world, in both transactional and litigation settings.

The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law offers a unique and unparalleled treatment and presentation in the field of Transnational Law that has become one of the most intriguing and innovative developments in legal doctrine, scholarship, theory, and practice today.

New essays by leading figures from the judiciary, practicing lawyers and academics illuminating the worlds of trusts and wealth management.

Every year millions of families are affected by the imprisonment of a family member.

The book highlights the link between consumers and travellers, identifying the meaning of vulnerability in Brazil and the EU.

The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades.

In a period of paradigmatic transition, Toward a New Legal Common Sense aims to devolve to law its emancipatory potential.

This timely book offers a comprehensive study of the emergency arbitrator mechanism that provides interim measures in international commercial arbitration before the constitution of an arbitral tribunal, focusing on the enforceability of the interim measures granted.

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.

The new edition of European Tort Law provides an extensive revision and update of the only English language handbook in this constantly evolving area.

This publication succeeds previously published seminars of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany) dealing with evolving principles and new developments in international law.

How we understand what procedure is due as a fundamental or constitutional right can have a critical impact on designing a civil procedure.

This book considers the effectiveness and fairness of using international cooperation to obtain confession evidence or evidence of a suspect or accused person's silence across borders.

In the past century, Asian nations have experienced a wave of democratisation as countries in the region have gained independence or transitioned from authoritarian military rule towards more participatory politics.

This book explores the often neglected, but overwhelmingly common, everyday vulnerability of those who support the smooth functioning of contemporary societies: paid domestic workers.

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.

A Study of Mixed Legal Systems: Endangered, Entrenched, or Blended takes the reader on a fascinating voyage of discovery.

This book documents and explains the differences in the ways Americans and Europeans approach the issues of privacy and intelligence gathering.

This is the first comprehensive account of Buddhism''s complex entanglement with constitutional law, written by experts from across Asia and beyond.

This book describes the constitutions of six major federations and how they have been interpreted by their highest courts, compares the interpretive methods and underlying principles that have guided the courts, and explores the reasons for major differences between these methods and principles.