Comparative law

This book offers a comparative review of the ultra vires doctrine in corporate law.

The book provides an overview of EU competition law with a focus on the main developments in Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland and Croatia and offers an in-depth analysis of the role of language, translation and multilingualism in its implementation and interpretation.

This book brings together empirical and theoretical case-study research on art and heritage crime.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of modern seaports from a legal perspective.

Social networks have created a plethora of problems regarding privacy and the protection of personal data.

The contributions to this volume focus on a diverse array of topics in international law, with scholarly interventions from experts in the field, both in academia and the judiciary, as well as case commentary on a recent decision of the International Court of Justice (Chagos Decision).

This book investigates whether national courts could and should import innovative solutions from abroad in the adjudication of complex legal disputes.

Writing Constitutions intends to serve as a practical manual for those writing constitutions or interested in their design.

This book offers a meditation on global justice and international political and legal theory.

This book introduces readers to the main principles of Turkish contract law, and particularly analyzes the general provisions of the Turkish Code of Obligations.

This book is a researched study of land issues in American Samoa that analyzes the impact of U.

This book introduces "e;biolaw"e; as an integrated and distinct field in contemporary legal studies.

This book addresses the increasing overlap between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and law with a particular focus on company law and corporate governance.

Is academic freedom threatened?

This edited volume explores recent research and developments in the study of organized crime.

This book invites readers to critically rethink the interrelations between geography and the law.

From Van Gend en Loos and Costa v ENEL to Cassis de Dijon and Consten and Grundig, Landmark Cases in EU Law explores the most important and well-known EU law cases in two volumes.

This book analyses the doctrinal structure and content of secondary liability rules that hold internet service providers liable for the conduct of others, including the safe harbours (or immunities) of which they may take advantage, and the range of remedies that can be secured against such providers.

This book describes and examines three EU legal frameworks (EU competition law, EU consumer law, and EU fundamental rights law) that may affect the extent to which consumers purchase more sustainably.

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

This revised second edition takes account of developments in the field of dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration.

With regard to family law, this volume examines claims based on cultural tradition, ethnic background, custom, religious affiliation and sexual orientation, as well as various other "e;claims"e; that are not officially recognized in state law, in 15 jurisdictions around the world.

This book evaluates the protection of traditional cultural expressions in Africa using South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana as case study examples in the light of regional and international approaches in this respect.

This book provides an analysis of the institutional and constitutional effects of EU international agreements, with a particular focus on their potential effects on private parties.

War crimes have devastating effects on victims and perpetrators and endanger broader political and military goals.

This volume explores from a legal perspective, how blockchain works.

This volume, incorporating the work of scholars from various parts of the globe, taps the wisdom of the Westphalian (and post-Westphalian) world on the use of federalism and secession as tools for managing regional conflicts.

This book investigates stakeholders' interests, market players, and governance models for the takeover market in the changing global economic orders.

The aim of this book is to delve into the impact of the Information and Communications Technologies in the criminal prevention and investigation, by addressing the state of the art of different measures and its implementation in different legal systems vis a vis the protection of human rights.

The book focuses on the interactions between international legal regimes related to biodiversity governance.

This book offers a comparative perspective on 18 countries' legal regulation of crowdfunding.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on the long-term care systems in 12 EU member states and Norway.

This book conducts a comparative legal study from two analytical points of view.

This book provides an in-depth study of Private International Law reasoning in the field of international sale of goods contracts.

This book provides international perspectives on the law of copyright in relation to three core themes - copyright and developing countries; the government and copyright; and technology and the future of copyright.

This book maps various national legal responses to gender mobility, including sex and name registration, access to gender modification interventions, and anti-discrimination protection (or lack thereof) and regulations.

This book explores commercial contract law in scholarship and legal practice, suggests new research agendas and provides a forum for debate of typical issues that might benefit from further attention by scholarship and legislatures.

This innovative textbook provides an introduction into comparative constitutional law to undergraduate and graduate students.

This volume discusses EU criminal justice from three perspectives.

This book compares the law on provisional measures of common law and civil law countries, the goal being to identify and compare their main advantages and disadvantages.

This book critically analyses how arbitration cases, institutional rules and emerging codes of conduct in the international arbitration sector?

This book attempts to establish how courts of general jurisdiction differ from specialized human rights courts in their approach to the implementation and development of international human rights.

Archaeological heritage legislation aims to ensure the best possible protection for the archaeological heritage, yet it remains the case that legislation can remain ineffective through  other practical considerations.

This book analyzes regulatory models established in the field of online music distribution, and examines their consistency with the overarching objectives of copyright law.

National civil justice systems are deeply rooted in national legal cultures and traditions.

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

Dieser Band legt in klarer undgleichzeitig problembezogener Form die italienischen Zivilrechtsinstitute dar.

Auf die Bedürfnisse der Praxis ausgerichtet, erläutert das Werk unter Aufarbeitung der neuesten Rechtsentwicklungen systematisch das gesamte Bankrecht in Deutschland.

This book focuses on Chinese cases on the CISG decided by Chinese courts of all levels, mainly from 1990 to 2005.

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.