Comparative law

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

This book investigates whether national courts could and should import innovative solutions from abroad in the adjudication of complex legal disputes.

This edited volume looks at supreme courts in China and the West.

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

The book is the first comprehensive consideration, since the UK Cadbury Report recommended a voluntary Corporate Governance Code, of the question whether Corporate Governance Codes are the most effective way of ensuring adherence to good corporate governance principles.

This book examines how the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, commonly known as The New York Convention, has been understood and applied in [insert number] jurisdictions, including virtually all that are leading international arbitration centers.

This book examines the legal principle of judicial independence in comparative perspective with the goal of advancing a better understanding of the idea of an independent judiciary more generally.

One of the hallmarks of the present era is the discourse surrounding Human Rights and the need for the law to recognise them.

This volume examines the property transformations in post-communist Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and focuses on the role of restitution and privatisation in such transformations.

This book explains, compares and assesses the legal implications of Dieselgate within a range of selected jurisdictions and at the EU, international and comparative law level.

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 volume examines the impact of and interplay between human rights and insurance.

This publication provides an unparalleled comparative analysis of two "e;hot topics"e; in the field of antitrust and unfair competition law with regard to a number of key countries.

This book investigates the tensions between EU law and international commercial arbitration, i.

This book analyses how the complementarity regime of the ICC's Rome Statute can be implemented in member states, specifically focusing on African states and Nigeria.

This book offers the analysis of the relationship between the Cape Town Convention and national laws on secured transactions.

This book reviews and presents antitrust law compliance programmes from different angles.

This timely book provides contributions on international, comparative crime phenomena: gangs, trafficking, fear of crime, and crime prevention.

This book provides a theoretical framework for explaining the choices made by international decision-makers in terms of what constitutes law.

This book critically investigates the conditions of seafarers' rights in China in legislation and in practice, focusing in particular on the restructuring process following the 2006 Maritime Labour Convention.

The first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy includes an important discussion on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that are the basis for the post-2015 development agenda up to the year 2030; the Yearbook focuses in particular on Goal 15, which includes achieving a "e;land degradation-neutral world.

This volume examines the tax systems of some twenty countries to determine whether their tax laws are used to support growth and development across borders in lower-income and poor countries.

This book considers the effectiveness and fairness of using international cooperation to obtain confession evidence or evidence of a suspect or accused person's silence across borders.

This book offers a valuable guide to one of the most challenging areas of commercial law, now frequently referred to as secured transactions, with a focus on Nigerian, Canadian and United States perspectives.

This book examines legal limitations on government deficit and debt and its impact on the ability of nations to provide services to their residents.

This book addresses the issue of privacy and confidentiality in the broader context of the Egyptian legal system.

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

This book discusses the relation between morality and politics, and morality and law, a field that has been studied for more than two thousand years The law is a part of human culture, and this touches upon a dynamic reality that is connected to the relation between nature and freedom, nature and culture.

This book launches a debate on the need to evaluate criminal policies and, what is more complex and ambitious, to develop an evaluation method.

This volume is devoted to exploring a subject which,on the surface, might appear to be just a trending topic.

The book analyses the institutions of the European financial market supervision and the challenges of financial markets.

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

This book analyses the governance foundations of  innovation, brands, inventions, secrets and expression, which are the keys to a century based on knowledge.

This edited volume looks at supreme courts in China and the West.

Thevolume is devoted to the relevant problems in the legal sphere, created andgenerated by recent advances in science and technology.

This book takes a completely new and innovative approach to analysing the development of EU law.

This book adopts an international perspective to examine how the online sale of insurance challenges the insurance regulation and the insurance contract, with a focus on insurance sales, consumer protection, cyber risks and privacy, as well as dispute resolution.

This volume critically discusses therelationship between democracy and constitutionalism.

This book is devoted to the studyof the interplaybetween religious rules and State law.

This book is a collection of studies of drug policies in several Latin American countries.

This book focuses on the financing of religions, examining some European church-state models, using a philosophical methodology.

This book explores the regulations, goals and functioning of preparatory proceedings in four Nordic countries and eight former communist countries.

This volume provides an overview of thestate of internationalisation of legal education (IOLE) in many civil law andcommon law countries.

This book is about one of the most controversial dilemmas of contract law: whether or not the unexpected change of circumstances due to the effects of financial crises may under certain conditions be taken into account.

This bookprovides an unparalleled comparative analysis of two "e;hot topics"e; inthe field of antitrust and unfair competition laws with regard to a number ofkey countries.

Thisbook deals with the contractual platform for arbitration and the application ofcontractual norms to the parties' dispute.

Thelaw of outer space is rapidly evolving to adapt to changes in the economicdrivers as well as advancements in technological capabilities.

This edited book focuses on the most controversial aspects of assistance benefits as mandated by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 - and the challenges that have merged since the approval, in 1993, of the Federal Act 8.

This book focuses on animal laws and animal welfare in major jurisdictions in the world, including the more developed legal regimes for animal protection of the US, UK, Australia, the EU and Israel, and the regulatory regimes still developing in China, South Africa, and Brazil.

This book analyses the emerging jurisprudence of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and seamlessly knits together all the disparate texts, policies and judicial decisions into a single, coherent resource.