Comparative law

Millions of people all over the world have been displaced from their homes and property.

Ombudsmen are a global phenomenon.

Evaluates the successes and failures of the 1996 South African Constitution following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment.

This book explores critical issues about how courts engage with questions of fact in public law adjudication.

Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity.

This book traces the emergence and transformations of asbestos compensation to explore the wider issue of to what extent legal systems have converged in the era of globalization.

This yearbook focuses on law and its interdisciplinarity in India.

Dissent in courts has always existed.

The academic or scientific occupation with international relations is not always an encouraging task.

Focusing on paid work that blurs traditional legal boundaries and the challenge this poses to traditional forms of labour regulation, this collection of original case studies illustrates the wide range of different forms of regulation designed to provide decent work.

Finck examines the emergence of blockchains (and other forms of distributed ledger technologies) and the implications for regulation and governance.

Exploring the advantages and disadvantages of codifying contract law, this book considers the question from the perspectives of both civil and common law systems, referring in detail to issues of international and consumer law.

A comparative approach to judicial communication offering perspectives on the relationship between national supreme courts and the media covering them.

This book offers an analysis of the current trends and developments in Nordic civil litigation and is divided into four main parts.

Lawfare is a complex and evolving concept with many permutations.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of globalization on the legal profession in India.

The subject of this book is human rights law, focusing on historic achievement of a common standard viewed from a perspective of Pengchun Chang's contributions to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

In an era where new areas of life and new problems call for normative solutions while the plurality of values in society challenge the very basis for normative solutions, this book looks at a growing field of research on the relations between social and legal norms.

A large-scale comparative work of leading cases examines judicial constitutional reasoning in eighteen different legal systems globally.

This book assesses territorial governance (that is, all forms of subnational governance) as a constitutional artefact in five Southeast Asian countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand.

This title presents twenty-nine topics, prepared by leading scholars in more than 20 countries, providing a comparative analysis of cutting-edge legal topics of the 21st century.

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 the diverse use of Indigenous customary rights in modern landscapes from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This book explores the reactions to Europeanization and globalization in times of economic distress, including the transformation of European values in national legal cultures.

South Asia has had a tumultuous and varied experience with constitutional democracy that predates the recent rise in populism (and its study) in established democracies.

For the benefits offered by outsourcing and offshoring, organisations outsourcing to India must however recognise that there are real risks involved, and allocating such risk through a well constructed contract is a crucial step in minimizing such risk.

This book contains an in-depth examination of the Islamic headscarf cases of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and places these against the background of the Islamophobia existing across Europe.

Historian Ramses Delafontaine presents an engaging examination of a controversial legal practice: the historian as an expert judicial witness.

This book explores how the domestic law of states is increasingly accompanied by a ''global law'' distinct from regional and international law.

Comparative Company Law provides a systematic and coherent exposition of company law across jurisdictions, augmented by extracts taken from key judgments, legislation, and scholarly works.

This book explores labor and competition law in 14 jurisdictions and globally, addressing cutting-edge questions in the legal organization of markets.

Although the concept of personal data protection began in Europe in the early 1970s, data protection legislation has been adopted in many countries.

Hernando de Soto is one of the world's leading public intellectuals.

Analyses the mediation of property rights and social justice through the prism of ''progressive'' constitutional property rights guarantees.

This collection focuses on the particular nexus of popular sovereignty and constitutional change, and the implications of the recent surge in populism for systems where constitutional change is directly decided upon by the people via referendum.

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

This book explores the ways language is used by the professional legal community for the communication of its main business - the negotiation of justice - in today's globalized world.

Courts and Terrorism examines the response of judiciaries in nine separate nations to terror tactics and the common themes experienced.

This book addresses age-based persecution of children as a crime against humanity in connection with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes (persecution - with some variation in the elements of the crime - is an existing offence under the Rome Statute of the permanent International Criminal Court, the statutes of various international criminal tribunals i.

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.

This book presents an important discussion on the implementation of sustainable soil management in Africa from a range of governance perspectives.

Integrating research methods from linguistics with contemporary legal argumentation theory, this book highlights the complexities of legal justification by focusing on the role of value-laden language in argument construction and use.

Issues of religious diversity in the workplace have become very topical and have been raised before domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rights.

Over 2 billion people (61% of the world's employed population) work in the informal economy.

This book focuses on the Polish Constitution of 1997, concentrating on its structure, its substance and some of the institutional choices made by the drafters.

Charity Law & Social Policy explores contemporary law, policy and practice in a range of modern common law nations in four parts and from the perspective of how this has evolved in the UK.