Comparative law

What does the Belt and Road Initiative mean for the existing multilateral organisations?

Criminal defence at the investigative stage has attracted growing attention due to the shifting focus of the criminal process onto pre-trial stages, and the recent European regulations adopted in this area.

A comparative analysis via legal transplant theory on how England, America and China guarantee the right to environmental information.

Embark on a journey through the dynamic landscape of global financial crime combating with our latest collection, meticulously curated by leading researchers.

This book assesses the Statute for a European Cooperative Society (SCE) regarding agricultural activities by comparing how specific questions arising in this context must be dealt with under the Italian and Austrian legal systems.

This book demonstrates the social and historical conditions for the existence and development of the representative system and uncovers the laws dictating its occurrence, development and operation.

Most books about public power and the state deal with their subject from the point of view of legal theory, sociology or political science.

Historically, likelihood of confusion has been the core infringement test for trade mark law, and it remains the most frequently applied test in infringement actions by far.

This book focuses on the separatist trend in Hong Kong, which it approaches by drawing on historical studies, political analysis, social studies and legal analysis.

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.

A Theory of African Constitutionalism asks and seeks to answer why we need a new theoretical framework for African constitutionalism and how this could offer us better theoretical and practical tools with which to understand, improve, and assess African constitutionalism on its own terms.

In considering diffusion from a global perspective, this book provides timely new insights into its application in a variety of fields and at many levels of both legal and non-legal orderings.

Der technologische Fortschritt und die wachsende Bedeutung institutioneller Investoren im Rahmen der ökonomischen Globalisierung haben zu der Entstehung von außerbörslichen Wertpapierhandelssystemen, so genannten Alternative Trading Systems, beigetragen.

The book provides in-depth analysis of the new perspectives on codifications, and of the related reforms, that give recognition to new ideas, new needs, and new techniques.

Proposes a multidisciplinary approach that seeks to grapple with the pluralist reality rather than ignoring it.

This book examines the international, regional and domestic human rights frameworks that establish victim rights as a central force in law and policy in the twenty-first century.

The book identifies the impact of misinformation in the context of referenda.

The exponential growth of disruptive technology is changing our world.

In this book, leading scholars analyze the important role played by copyright exceptions in economic and cultural productivity.

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

This book offers insights into the legal mechanisms that are adopted in multilevel constitutional orders to accommodate the tension between contrasting interests of diversity and unity and the converging or diverging effects they may have on the functioning of a multilevel constitutional order.

The first comprehensive comparative treatment in English of condominium (apartment ownership, commonhold) law in the 21 most important European jurisdictions.

This book traces, assesses and compares the history of conscientious objection - in the cultural context of six common law nations - from refusal of military service and a range of similar moral dilemmas, to objecting to abortion, to the current social polarisation surrounding vaccination hesitancy in the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book analyses unamendability in democratic constitutionalism and engages critically and systematically with its perils, offering a much-needed corrective to existing understandings of this phenomenon.

This book uses the monographic study of litigation subjects, prosecution, trial, and enforcement to reveal the formation, operation, and development of criminal proceeding conventions in the Tang Dynasty.

Criminal punishment in America is harsh and degrading--more so than anywhere else in the liberal west.

An interdisciplinary group of privacy scholars explores social meaning and value of privacy in new privacy-sensitive areas.

This book is devoted to illustrating the significance of perpetrator-victim relationship, including its status and state, in understanding intimate partner homicide (IPH) in the context of China today after comparing with the findings in the previous studies.

This book presents the latest and most relevant studies, surveys, and succinct reviews in the field of financial crimes and cybercrime, conducted and gathered by a group of top professionals, scholars, and researchers from China, India, Spain, Italy, Poland, Germany, and Russia.

Police organizations across the globe are experiencing major changes.

The first comprehensive study of Chilean constitutional history in the English language.

This book presents findings from a process evaluation carried out at a problem-solving court located in England: Manchester Review Court.

This book analyses the topic of protecting traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) in Latin America.

Almost two decades ago, the fall of the Santer Commission against a background of allegations of maladministration and nepotism had the effect of placing accountability on the political agenda of the EU institutions.

Tort law, a fundamental building block of every legal system, features prominently in mass culture and political debates.

This book studies the international investment law regime in Africa and provides a comprehensive analysis of the current treaty practices in Africa from global, regional and domestic perspectives.

Offers a public law theory that elaborates the idea of human dignity to illuminate and justify innovations in constitutional practice.

Just war theory is the traditional approach taken to questions of the morality of war, but war today is far from traditional.

This ground-breaking book examines the multifaceted dynamics between copyright law and music borrowing within a rich diversity of music genres from across the world.

Thisbook deals with the contractual platform for arbitration and the application ofcontractual norms to the parties' dispute.

Explores the shaping of China and India''s energy and climate policies by two-level pressures characterized as wealth, status and asymmetrical interdependence.