Comparative law

This book addresses current practices in customary law.

The book focuses on the legal framework for the use of the bridging clauses of Article 48(7) TEU as well as on parliamentary participation in the process of activating these clauses.

This book describes the global legal framework for safeguarding the "e;Intangible Cultural Heritage"e; - as defined by the UNESCO Convention in 2003 - and analyses its use in selected countries in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe.

This book presents the results of extensive international comparative research into the effects of the economic and financial crisis on democratic institutions and social cohesion policies.

This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th century codification of criminal law.

This book critically evaluates the current copyright law system in a digital environment from a comparative perspective.

This book is the inaugural edition of the Nigerian Yearbook of International Law.

This book gathers international and national reports from across the globe on key questions in the field of antitrust and intellectual property.

In the last two decades, multinational companies (MNCs) and global union federations (GUFs) have started to negotiate so-called global framework agreements (GFAs) which define minimum standards for labor conditions across their locations.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on the long-term care systems in 12 EU member states and Norway.

This book is a researched study of land issues in American Samoa that analyzes the impact of U.

This book addresses the increasing overlap between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and law with a particular focus on company law and corporate governance.

This book presents an important discussion on soil and sustainable agriculture from a range of perspectives, addressing key topics such as sustainable intensification, the FAO Voluntary Guidelines, and the crucial role of appropriate tenure rights.

This book explores the various connections between Law and Opera, providing a comprehensive, multinational, and multidisciplinary (with approaches from jurists, philosophers, musicologist, historians) resource on the subject.

This book offers a new and differentiated overview of Agri-Food Law against the background of national and global integration of markets, and compares for the first time important aspects of the agricultural, environmental and food law of China and Germany / the European Union.

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 asserts that the Pacific Islands continue to struggle with the colonial legacy of plural legal systems, comprising laws and legal institutions from both the common law and the customary legal system.

This book investigates whether treaty interpretation at the ECtHR and WTO, which are sometimes perceived as promoting 'self-contained' regimes, could constitute a means for unifying international law, or, conversely, might exacerbate the fragmentation of international law.

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

This book analyses large-scale land investments for agricultural purposes in Africa's least developed countries from a law and economics perspective.

This book analyses the adequacy of Mongolia's legal system for foreign investment protection by conducting a multi-level assessment of international investment treaties, domestic legislation of the host State, and investor-State contracts from an international comparative perspective.

This book offers a clear, accessible account of the American litigation over the restitution of works of art taken from Jewish families during the Holocaust.

This book focuses on the social and environmental issues being addressed by agricultural law within the current globalised system.

This book provides an analysis of the institutional and constitutional effects of EU international agreements, with a particular focus on their potential effects on private parties.

This book examines the simultaneous protection of fundamental rights by various norms and jurisdictional organs, focussing on the multilevel protection of the principle of legality in Criminal Law.

This edited volume examines two recent Central European recodifications of civil law.

This book is based on an international project conducted by the Institute for European Studies of the University CEU San Pablo in Madrid and a seminar on Vitoria and International Law which took place on July 2nd 2015 in the convent of San Esteban, the place where Vitoria spent his most productive years as Chair of Theology at the University of Salamanca.

This book addresses the legal and contractual obligations of sea carriers regarding due care for the cargo under a contract of carriage.

This book adds to the debate on the effects of covenants on third-party creditors (externalities), which have recently become a focus of discussion in the contexts of bankruptcy law, corporate law and corporate governance.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of modern seaports from a legal perspective.

This book introduces readers to the main principles of Turkish contract law, and particularly analyzes the general provisions of the Turkish Code of Obligations.

This book begins the discourse on post-trial access to drugs in developing countries.

This volume, incorporating the work of scholars from various parts of the globe, taps the wisdom of the Westphalian (and post-Westphalian) world on the use of federalism and secession as tools for managing regional conflicts.

This edited volume examines the very essence of the function of judges, building upon developments in the quality of justice research throughout Europe.

This book investigates the strengths and weaknesses - in terms of transparency and compliance with the democratic principle - of Bretton Woods Institutions, considering the most important innovations from the original framework achieved through the introduction of independent accountability and complaint mechanisms (the Inspection Panel and Independent Evaluation Office), but also due to relevant reforms in the internal governance of the International Monetary Fund and the new financial assistance tools.

This book introduces the fundamental monetary law problems of cross-border economic activity and the solutions thereto in international monetary law, and in EU law.

This book evaluates the protection of traditional cultural expressions in Africa using South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana as case study examples in the light of regional and international approaches in this respect.

This work presents a thorough investigation of existing rules and features of the treatment of foreign law in various jurisdictions.

This book argues that the European integration process (Europeanisation) is pushing the member states and candidate countries toward a greater convergence with the EU's competition acquis.

This first volume of EtYIL focuses on issues concerning the developing world in general and (the Horn of) Africa - and Ethiopia - specifically.

This book gathers international and national reports from across the globe on key questions in the field of antitrust and intellectual property.

This book reflects the research output of the Committee on the International Protection of Consumers of the International Law Association (ILA).

The book analyses the Indian Supreme Court's jurisprudence on homosexuality, its current approach and how its position has evolved in the past ten years.

Judicial control of public power ensures a guarantee of the rule of law.

This book analyses the doctrinal structure and content of secondary liability rules that hold internet service providers liable for the conduct of others, including the safe harbours (or immunities) of which they may take advantage, and the range of remedies that can be secured against such providers.

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 discusses theoretical issues, standards, and professional considerations arising when legal and health practitioners undertake legal capacity assessments in the context of wills, enduring powers of attorney and advance health directives.

This is the first book to present the law of the Baltic States in one comprehensive and coherent volume in English.

This  publication examines the legal aspects of the spare parts market from an IP perspective: specifically whether design protection for spare parts of a complex product extends to the spare part aftermarket, or whether that market should remain open to competition.

This book provides an in-depth study of Private International Law reasoning in the field of international sale of goods contracts.