Comparative law

How does a nation become a great power?

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

This book identifies the role of insurance in a comprehensive system for managing environmental risks at the local, regional and global level.

This book discusses affirmative action or positive discrimination, defined as measures awarding privileges to certain groups that have historically suffered discrimination or have been underrepresented in specific social sectors.

This is the first book to map and explain compliance with judgments of social rights across multiple jurisdictions.

This collection of essays from Dieter Grimm, Germany's most renowned constitutional scholar, shines a light on the jurisprudence of the German Constitutional Court and constitutional adjudication in general.

This book provides a comprehensive theory of the rights upon which tort law is based and the liability that flows from violating those rights.

When corruption is exposed, unknown aspects are revealed which allow us to better understand its structures and informal norms.

This book introduces the multilevel perspective to analyze how local, national, and international actors and institutions in the heritage field interact.

This ground-breaking book brings clarity to the dynamically developing field of international tax law.

In 2005, Iraq drafted its first constitution and held the country's first democratic election in more than fifty years.

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

If Nigeria fails to prosecute the crimes recognised under the Rome Statute, then the International Criminal Court (ICC) will intervene.

The book addresses authoritarian legacies of politically motivated justice and its unwritten practices that have re-emerged in the recent trials related to both political and ordinary criminal charges against prominent opposition leaders in many former Soviet republics.

Intersecting forms of oppression, including subordination based on race, class, gender, and indigeneity, produce environmental injustice and unsustainable development.

This book examines the relationship between illegal migration and globalization.

This edited volume is a timely and insightful contribution to the growing discourses on public law in Asia.

Challenge your understanding of corporate, securities, and financial law and regulation with this ground-breaking book.

Corporate Criminal Liability is on the rise worldwide: More and more legal systems now include genuinely criminal sanctioning for legal entities.

Provides the first scholarly and comprehensive book on the national renewable energy laws of every country that has them (113 countries).

Judicial networks have proved effective in influencing recent judicial policies enacted by both old and new EU member states.

A comparative exploration of whether unexpected circumstances can ''open up'' contracts.

This book aims to inspire a new generation of lawyers by showcasing real-life case studies of how legal professionals have built successful and rewarding careers in the field of sustainability.

This book provides a fascinating analysis of a single jurisdiction, Brazil, and accounts for both the successes and the failures of its most recent constitutional project, inaugurated by the Constitution of 1988.

This is the first book on the policy questions raised by two revolutions in recording the police - copwatching and police-worn body cameras.

China (the Mainland of PRC) trades with other states in trillions of USD every year, and about 95% of the cargoes are carried by ocean-going ships calling at hundreds of Chinese ports each singe day.

This book redefines the traditional understanding of state responsibility.

This book shows that attempts to repress religion produce the very violent religious extremism that states seek to avoid.

This book explores the complexity and depths of our digital world by providing a selection of analyses and discussions from the 16th annual international conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP): Ideas that Drive Our Digital World.

Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges legal practice, how legal practice responds to that challenge, and how practice is changing in the encounter with the cultural diversity occasioned by large-scale, post-war immigration.

Laws are imposed on facts.

This book focuses on the PRC's cross-border data transfer legislation in recent years, as well as the implications for international trade law.

This book challenges the near-universal acceptance of a US-style, Western constitutional paradigm as the best basis for comparative constitutional studies.

This book addresses women's rights to work and motherhood in Libya from a legal and international human rights perspective.

This book presents a comprehensive history of law and religion in the Nordic context.

In a break from the contemporary focus on the law's response to inter-racial crime, the authors examine the law's approach to the victimization of one Indigenous person by another.

This book examines the UK approach to investigating international crimes and serious human rights violations.

Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world.

This volume explains and evaluates Australia''s federal system and the options for reform from various comparative and disciplinary perspectives.