Comparative law

An exploration of the tension between human rights and patent law, with reference to developing countries'' access to affordable medicines.

This book examines how constitutional courts can support weak democratic states in the wake of societal division and authoritarian regimes.

This book explore the power of judicial review as held by the United States Supreme Court.

All institutions concerned with the process of judging - whether it be deciding between alternative courses of action, determining a judge's professional integrity, assigning culpability for an alleged crime, or ruling on the credibility of an asylum claimant - are necessarily directly concerned with the question of doubt.

This volume looks at how courts and the police handle racial discrimination in Europe.

Explores how the text and principles of the UNCITRAL Model Arbitration Law are implemented, or not, in key Asian jurisdictions.

This volume provides the most comprehensive contemporary academic writing on Ukrainian competition and intellectual property law in English.

This book explores the relationships between property and the concept of sovereignty from a number of different perspectives.

This book provides essential information on the legal rights of employers and employees in Turkey, plus up-to-date sections on wages, working hours, employment contracts, discrimination laws, and unions.

This book examines the interconnections between artificial intelligence, data governance and private law rules with a comparative focus on selected jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region.

The book summarizes the work of international criminal courts focusing on the political challenges faced by them.

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The scope of vicarious liability has significantly expanded since its original conception.

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 examines administrative law in Asia, exploring the profound changes in the legal regimes of many Asian states that have taken place in recent years.

O''Halloran provides a comparative evaluation of contemporary law as it relates to religion in six developed nations.

Traditionally, human rights have protected those facing the sharp edge of the criminal justice system.

Effective protection of the marine and terrestrial environment increasingly requires cooperation between neighbouring States, international organizations, government entities and communities within States.

This book examines Japan and Korea''s post-World War II constitutional history to challenge enduring assumptions about the nature of constitution-making.

In the post-2001 context of economic and political conflict, this book presents a timely and detailed examination of the role of the criminal law in the protection of the existing order from political dissent and destabilization.

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.

As global great power competition intensifies, there is growing concern about the geopolitical future of Antarctica.

Despite the growth in international criminal courts and tribunals, the majority of cases concerning international criminal law are prosecuted at the domestic level.

EU law consists of several thousand acts of which the overwhelming majority are made by the Commission.

In the past few years, constitutional courts have been presented with new challenges.

The book is a tour de force by a world renowned legal expert and senior diplomat.

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

Gender equality and the importance of the law in combating discrimination are issues explored by this insightful work.

Should grandparents have rights in relation to their grandchildren?

This book explores fundamental topics concerning the functioning of the judiciary.

This work analyzes and compares the legal framework for foreign investments in the mining sector in Australia, South Africa and Colombia.

This book offers a multi-discursive analysis of the constitutional foundations for peaceful coexistence, the constitutional background for discontent and the impact of discontent, and the consequences of conflict and revolution on the constitutional order of a democratic society which may lead to its implosion.

This book analyses current developments in Europe and Latin America towards the greater involvement of the parties in the administration of criminal justice.

This book focuses on recent developments in consumer law, specifically addressing mandatory disclosures and the topical problem of information overload.

This book explores the human rights consequences of recent and ongoing revisions of mental health legislation in England and Ireland.

Applying a legal pluralist framework, this study examines the complex interrelationships between religion, law and politics in contemporary Ghana, a professedly secular State characterised by high levels of religiosity.

Following on from her previous nine books on discrimination law, Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter now focuses on the goal of child equality.

This comprehensive volume analyzes dual markets for regulated substances and services, and aims to provide a framework for their effective regulation.

The executive branch in Western democracies has been granted a virtually impossible task: expected to 'imperially' direct the life of the nation through thick and thin, it is concurrently required to be subservient to legislation meted out by a sovereign parliament.

This book studies the fundamental conflicts between the protections on the legal rights and interests of victims and the freedom of infringers to act first.

The 60 or so nations that subscribe to the common law tradition had for centuries broadly accepted the same legal definitions of what constitutes a charity.

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

Constitutionalising Secession proceeds from the question, 'What, if anything, does the law have to say about a secession crisis?

From Russia and Hungary to the United States and Canada, including Britain, France, and Germany, courts are increasingly recognised as political institutions that are important players in political systems.