Comparative law

The New Urban Agenda (NUA), adopted in 2016 at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, represents a globally shared understanding of the vital link between urbanization and a sustainable future.

Rogue states' have been high on the policy agenda for many years but their theoretical significance for international relations has remained poorly understood.

Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia provides an authoritative account of the contract law regimes of selected Asian jurisdictions, including the major centres of commerce where limited critical commentaries have been published in the English language.

This book analyzes the role of strategic human rights litigation in the dissemination and migration of transnational constitutional norms and provides a detailed analysis of how transnational human rights advocates and their local partners have used international and foreign law to promote abolition of the death penalty and decriminalization of homosexuality.

Taking a critical look at the major areas of constitutional and administrative law, Commonwealth Caribbean Public Law places a firm emphasis on the protection of citizens' rights and good governance.

This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on femicide, using Israel as an illuminating case study, given its diverse communities and common-law-based legal system.

The establishment of a School of International Arbitration was a sufficiently important occurrence to have brought to London, for its inaugural conference, most of the world's leading experts on international arbitration.

Legal theory has been much occupied with understanding legal systems and analysing the concept of legal system.

For the first time, the author has explored the intertwinement of written law, Islamic law, and customary law in the highly complex Afghan society, being deeply influenced by traditional cultural and religious convictions.

One of the most ambitious legacies of the 20th century was the universal commitment to ensure freedom from want as a human right.

This book examines the potential for regionalisation of intellectual property law and policy as a means of improving pharmaceutical access for least developed countries.

Giving victims of crime a greater role in the criminal justice system is a relatively recent development, a trend likely to continue and increase in the foreseeable future.

This book provides a contextual analysis of ASEAN law and its impact on the business and commercial aspect of laws.

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

This edited collection is the culmination of a comparative project on 'Voices at Work' funded by the Leverhulme Trust 2010 - 2013.

This book puts forward new thinking on how the theory and system of China's administrative law can meet the requirements of the low-carbon era based on the 25-year (1990-2015) development of China's administrative law in addressing climate change.

This book examines the complex relationship between politics and hate speech laws, domestic and international.

The first sustained consideration of the law of charity from a liberal philosophical perspective.

The book provides a sophisticated analysis of state immunity from an enforcement perspective.

This book presents important new scholarship by leading figures in constitutional law on new challenges for proportionality doctrine.

Sixth report of the American Law Institute project on World Trade Organization Case Law covering 2008.

How can procedural objections be used to address the emerging phenomenon of forum shopping before international tribunals?

This volume investigates advances in the field of legal translation both from a theoretical and practical perspective, with professional and academic insights from leading experts in the field.

This book offers a valuable contribution to contemporary legal literature, providing deep insights into the interface between law and genetics, highlighting emerging issues and providing meaningful solutions to current problems.

This collection addresses many of the issues arising from the management of religious and cultural diversity in a multicultural society and refers to the complex relationship between the right to religious freedom and security.

This book explores the complex package of mechanisms used to identify, record, manage and remediate contaminated land, including the system for allocating liabilities that has been set up by China's contaminated land law and accompanying administrative decrees and environmental standards.

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

This volume presents national reports describing the legal instruments that are available to prevent the payment of bribes for acquiring contracts.

The globalization of housing finance led to the global financial crisis, which has created new barriers to adequate and affordable housing.

Latin America has amassed comprehensive expertise in generating, managing, and providing access to archives documenting widespread human rights violations.

This book is about the regulation of corporations that use bribery in international commerce to win or maintain overseas business contracts and interests.

This book maps out the moral, legal and societal issues brought forth by the use of autonomous systems such as AI and smart robots in outer space.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the European Sustainability Model which cannot be properly understood without taking into account the global governance trends surrounding the topic.

This book examines how businesses manage their labour systems, and particularly how they manage the complex interaction of factors which give rise to instances of 'partnership' style relations between businesses and their employees.

This book examines the Court of Final Appeal''s structure, jurisprudence and politics and the contribution of its Chief Justice under Chinese sovereignty.

Latin America has a long tradition of constitutional reform.

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

As more restrictive asylum policies are adopted around the world, Ghezelbash explores the implications for the international refugee protection regime.

This volume comprises national reports on migration and migration law from 17 countries representing all continents.

This book gathers the general contributions to the 3rd Thematic Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, which took place from 16 to 18 November 2016 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Explores how courts vary the depth of scrutiny in judicial review and the virtues of different approaches.