Comparative law

This book presents an informed, coherent and stimulating analysis of UK legal defences of homicide by victims of domestic abuse.

This book provides a deep dive into the important issue of digital law.

This book concerns how China's legal institutions promoted its economic growth and demonstrates that the law has played different roles at various stages of China's economic transformation, a signal of legal paradigm shifts in reaction to the changing political and economic pursuits.

This compilation represents the first study to examine the historical evolution and shifting global dynamics of policing across the Lusophone community.

Yaël Ronen examines the tension between the invalidity of the acts of illegal territorial regimes and their effectiveness.

This book takes an original and comparative approach to issues of causation in tort law across many European legal systems.

What does Israel's definition as a 'Jewish and democratic' state mean?

This innovative volume explores issues of law enforcement cooperation across borders from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

The EU and the US are the preeminent examples of multi-level polities and both have highly developed competition policies.

The book explores the relationship between Muslims, the Common Law and Shari?

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.

Even though Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a widely accepted concept promoted by different stakeholders, business corporations' internal strategies, known as corporate self-regulation in most of the weak economies, respond poorly to this responsibility.

This book proposes a new way of thinking about the controversial and complex challenges associated with the regulation of high-cost credit, specifically payday lending.

This book includes guiding cases of the Supreme People's Court, cases deliberated on by the Judicial Committee of the Supreme People's Court and cases discussed at the Joint Meeting of Presiding Judges from various tribunals.

A detailed critical evaluation of the Ruggie Framework and the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

This book focuses on the development of artificial intelligence and rule of law in the world, by collecting and summarizing the information about the development of artificial intelligence and rule of law in China and the world, covering topics like AI strategy, policy, law, theoretical research, practical application, etc.

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit ist das persönliche Recht des Urhebers auf die Integrität seines Werkes, wie es in Deutschland und den USA seinen rechtlichen Ausdruck findet.

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

This book clearly chronicles the evolution of Chinese VAT regulations, with a particular focus on the reforms of recent years.

This ground-breaking book addresses the challenge of regulatory delivery, defined as the way that regulatory agencies operate in practice to achieve the intended outcomes of regulation.

In the internet age, the need for effective consumer law enforcement has arguably never been greater.

The Grammar of Criminal Law is a 3-volume work that addresses the field of international and comparative criminal law, with its primary focus on the issues of international concern, ranging from genocide, to domestic efforts to combat terrorism, to torture, and to other international crimes.

Economic Morality and Jewish Law compares the way in which welfare economics and Jewish law determine the propriety of an economic action, whether by a private citizen or the government.

Leading historical research analysing the history of judges and judging, allowing comparisons between British, American, Commonwealth and Civil Law jurisdictions.

This book is dedicated to a fundamental conflict in modern states: those persons holding public office are no more than ordinary citizens.

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.

An assessment of the impact of asylum on the integrity of the rule of law in five common law jurisdictions.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the principle of proportionality in the EU insurance regulatory regime.

This collection brings together a carefully curated selection of researchers from law, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, social ontology and international relations, in order to examine how law and custom interact within specific material and spatial contexts.

International Law on the Aims of Education is a practical and tangible guide to the international legal standards on the aim and content of education.

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

This book highlights the right to terminate a contract, yielding invaluable insights to enable policymakers and legal practitioners to facilitate international trade.

This book explores the importance of autonomy in family law.

This book comprises contributions relating to the Insolvency Regulation Recast,which recently entered into force.

Even today, class discrimination remains an important global legal issue.

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

This edited volume focuses on specific, crucially important structural measures that foster corporate change, namely cross-border mergers.

An examination of the concealment controversy in international refugee law.

This book challenges the traditional framing of emergency powers as ''exceptions'' by illustrating their long-term legal and political effects.

Describes and analyses the law concerning accessories in tort, contract, equity and statute across common law jurisdictions.

On 1 August 2008 the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law entered into force, introducing a comprehensive framework for competition law to the Chinese market.

The problem of corruption, however described, dates back thousands of years.

Italian Constitutional Justice in Global Context is the first book ever published in English to provide an international examination of the Italian Constitutional Court (ItCC), offering a comprehensive analysis of its principal lines of jurisprudence, historical origins, organization, procedures, and its current engagement with transnational European law.

This book selects leading, innovative and influential Chinese maritime judgments and presents full translation of them, with brief summary, to the readers so that they can have insights of how the Chinese maritime judges interpret, apply and develop Chinese maritime law in practice.

Providing a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the legal approach to key areas of law within different legal systems, this book offers a blueprint for comparative legal study by evaluating the current epistemological debate on comparative law and comparative legal research methods.