Comparative law

What is the federal philosophy inspiring the structure of European law?

A 2011 collection of comparative insights on four major themes relating to the workings of the judiciary in six democracies.

This book examines how local cultures affect the interpretation of international human rights law.

Examining the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice from the end of World War II to today.

2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria demonstrate uses of new technologies and the impact of law, colonialism, and continuing marginalization.

This book examines the extent to which regulatory frameworks for information and communication technologies safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities as citizenship rights.

This book reviews and presents antitrust law compliance programmes from different angles.

This book explores the allocation of risk and liability of dangerous goods between the seller and the buyer under CIF (Cost, Insurance and Freight) and FOB (Free on Board) contracts, providing an in-depth study of the issue of carriage of dangerous goods in the context of international trade law.

The last two decades have witnessed an exponential growth in debates on the use of foreign law by courts.

This book examines the operation of the rule of law in the non-liberal democracy of Singapore.

Analyses the mediation of property rights and social justice through the prism of ''progressive'' constitutional property rights guarantees.

This edited volume examines two recent Central European recodifications of civil law.

This book examines the most controversial issues concerning the use of pre-drafted clauses in fine print, which are usually included in consumer contracts and presented to consumers on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.

University can be a psychologically distressing place for students.

A comparative, systematic and critical analysis of constitutional courts and constitutional review in Asia.

The European Court of Human Rights ("e;ECtHR"e;) suffers from the burgeoning caseload and challenges to its authority.

This book explores African domestic and regional responses and approaches to environmental protection and sustainability.

The aim of the book is to resolve the question of whether multiple sanctioning systems are contrary to the ne bis in idem under the regulation provided by Protocol 7 to the ECHR and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

The Indian Constitution is one of the world's longest and most important political texts.

This book discusses a number of important themes in comparative law: legal metaphors and methodology, the movements of legal ideas and institutions and the mixity they produce, and marriage, an area of law in which culture - or clashes of legal and public cultures - may be particularly evident.

The book examines the potential for regional competition law systems as enforcement tools in developing countries, based on a case study of the West African Economic and Monetary Union, the Andean Community and the Caribbean Community.

This book analyses the emerging jurisprudence of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and seamlessly knits together all the disparate texts, policies and judicial decisions into a single, coherent resource.

This book presents a creative synthesis of two ostensibly disparate fields of law - arbitration and human rights.

This book examines EU enlargement by studying how domestic constitutional evolution in the new member states contributes to European integration.

How do bills of rights influence legislative decision-making in New Zealand and the United Kingdom?

This book offers a South Asian perspective on international law, maintaining a suitable distance from the 'Western' approach.

This book provides international and domestic perspectives on the law of copyright and is led by a foreword on the future of copyright by Dr Francis Gurry, Director General of WIPO and a chapter on the lessons for copyright policy in classical Roman law, by Justice Arthur Emmett.

This book considers the effectiveness of well-known trade mark protection at an international level.

The book presents a survey of the law relating to secured transactions in the member states of the European Union.

This book offers a compendium of diverse essays on emerging legal issues in outer space, written by experts in the field of Space Law from different parts of the globe.

This analysis of currents trends in financial regulation offers a roadmap for those countries considering adopting the Twin Peaks model.

Explores the extent to which courts in Latin America protect individual rights and limit governments.

This book explores the various connections between Law and Opera, providing a comprehensive, multinational, and multidisciplinary (with approaches from jurists, philosophers, musicologist, historians) resource on the subject.

We live in an increasingly pluralized world.

Globalization and migration are producing societies of increasing linguistic diversity.

Hong Kong is widely regarded as an exemplar of authoritarian jurisdictions with a positive history of adhering to Rule of Law-shaped governance systems.

It is often asserted that 'A family that prays together, stays together'.

An empirically rich and conceptually informed study of the politics of transitional justice in post-communist Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

The comparative study of administrative law has a long history dating back more than 200 years.

This book provides a unique analysis of prisons and the violence at work inside them.

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

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.

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.