Comparative law

Do free speech rights apply against private actors?

Despite the economic relevance of trade secrets, their legal protection is not based on a robust theoretical corpus, and a large uncertainty remains regarding how they should be legally apprehended.

This book deals with banking integrations, which are now becoming crucial not only because of the increased number of economic integrations, but also in view of the qualitative improvement of such banking integrations.

National legal systems have their own principles and rules on contract law.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the current directions in social rehabilitation scholarship and research by bringing together the voices of legal scholars, criminal justice professionals, social scientists, and people directly impacted by criminal justice in a comparative, international, and interdisciplinary fashion.

This volume contributes to the growing field of comparative Jewish and American law, presenting twenty-six essays characterized by a number of distinct features.

This innovative study presents a genealogy of modern comparative law, examining both theory and practice around the world.

This book takes an innovative approach to provide a mirror perspective of the legal systems of the UK and the EU in contemporary institutional scenarios.

This volume examines the design and impact of courts in African federal systems from a comparative perspective.

Examines election case law to demonstrate and assess how the Supreme Court has radically transformed American democracy.

This book presents a comprehensive account of past and present efforts to introduce the jury system in Japan.

A survey of the regulation of human germline genome modification in eighteen countries and the emerging international standards.

A comparative and collaborative study of the foundational principles and concepts that underpin different domestic systems of criminal law.

The culture of the ius commune has been a unifying element of European and Western legal civilization.

This book provides the first detailed analysis of the decision to prosecute made by the statutory Australian Offices of Director of Prosecution.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians worldwide, has thought profoundly about the role of law as it applies to the church, to civic life in Europe, to human rights, to religious freedom, and to the environment.

This book explores the ways that intellectual property impacts our economy and society.

This book presents a critical analysis of the debate at the religious, legal and political level sparked off by the introduction of new biomedical technologies (cloning, genetics, organ transplants, IVF, etc.

This book makes a compelling case for placing the social and legal practices of inheritance centre stage to make sense of fundamental questions of our time.

Mediation provides an attractive alternative to resolving disputes through court proceedings.

Controversial erosions of individual liberties in the name of anti-terrorism are ongoing in liberal democracies.

The debate about the use of genetically modified organisms in European agriculture is fuelled by the fear of the general public about potential risks of GM farming, whether substantiated or not.

This book investigates judicial deference to the administration in judicial review, a concept and legal practice that can be found to a greater or lesser degree in every constitutional system.

This collection critically explores the use of financial technology (FinTech) and artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial sector and discusses effective regulation and the prevention of crime.

The book analyses the impact the jurisprudence of the constitutional courts of EU Member States and the Court of Justice of the European Union has had on the perception of freedom of communications in the digital era with respect to these courts' judgments regarding regulating storage and access to telecommunications data (known as telecommunications data retention) from 2008 to 2017.

This book explores the relationship between populism or populist regimes and constitutional interpretation used in those regimes.

Der Autor untersucht die so genannten Leitentscheidungen des Obersten Volksgerichts der Volksrepublik China.

This book analyzes the politics of land and the use of natural resources in Africa.

The Purse and the Sword presents a critical analysis of Israel's legal system in the context of its politics, history, and the forces that shape its society.

African legal realities reflect an intertwining of transnational, regional, and local normative frameworks, institutions, and practices that challenge the idea of the sovereign territorial state.

The unification of international commercial law has been a common course for every country of the world.

This latest volume in the Penal Theory and Penal Ethics series addresses one of the oldestquestions in the field of criminal sentencing: should an offender's previous convictions affect the sentence?

This book explores the connections between economic development and the protection of human rights.

Since the coming into force of the United Nations Law of the Sea, states have been targeting outlying islands to expand their exclusive economic zones, simultaneously stirring up strident nationalism when such plans clash with those of neighbouring states.

How does international criminal procedure differ from any domestic legal principles and why?

This book contains a collection of essays by leading experts linked to the outstanding characteristics of the scholar in honour of whom it is published, Tullio Treves, who combines his academic background with his practical experiences of a negotiator of international treaties and a judge of an international tribunal.

Since the founding of the Zionist movement until today, the question of the relationship between church and state in Israel remains unresolved, resulting in a continuous legal and social conflict among Israelis.

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

This book examines the responsibility of judges of domestic courts following unconstitutional usurpation of power of government (coups d'etat).

This book describes how statements made by non-state actors affect the scope of an individual's criminal responsibility and how they should be taken into account by domestic criminal courts.

Historically, at English common law, the death penalty was mandatory for the crime of murder and other violent felonies.

This book presents a theory of political liberalism in the British post-colonies.

This book focuses on the World Bank's sanctions system, which is an innovative instrument of global governance implemented by the leading multilateral development bank in order to impose penalties on legal entities and individuals that are involved in Bank-financed projects.