Comparative law

Presents a series of distinct sociological inquiries into the formation of contemporary European law and society.

This collection of essays contains in-depth analyses of eighteen landmark cases in private international law, from Penn v Lord Baltimore in 1750 to Brownlie v FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC in 2021.

A wide variety of problem-solving courts have been developed in the United States over the past two decades and are now being adopted in countries around the world.

This volume examines the legal status of religion in education, both public and non-public, in the United States and seven other nations.

"e;Given their ethnic diversity, to what extent, and at what cost and benefit to human dignity, can European countries adopt and adapt plural democracy?

This book examines the challenges posed to contemporary international law by the shifting role of the border, which has recently re-emerged as a central issue in international relations.

This book focuses on two main aspects: legal convergence and crises.

Provides the first annual English language foreign affairs record for Germany from the perspective of international law.

Democratic legal systems have recently been subject to rapid and multi-directional processes of change.

The national-conservative government of Hungary has been heavily criticised for its violation of EU values, primarily, the rule of law in recent years.

For centuries, courts across the common law world have developed systems of law by building bodies of judicial decisions.

This book is a reflection on domestic intellectual property lawmaking from a developing country's perspective.

This book proposes that fundamental concepts of institutional law need to be rethought and revised.

The fight against terrorism is receiving increased awareness due to recent wor- wide large-scale terrorist acts, and only since then has some attention been directed specifically to victims of terrorism.

In this book Hugh Beale examines the case for reforming the law on mistake and non-disclosure of fact to bring English law closer to the law in much of continental Europe.

Coverage of developments in anti-terrorism law and policy on six continents by world experts.

In this book, Eldar Haber describes how copyright has become over-criminalized.

An analysis of debates and mechanisms of international criminal law in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Myanmar.

In The Metamorphosis of Criminal Justice, Jacqueline S.

Combining the author's many years of legal practice experience, this book examines the current hot and difficult issues arising in the legal practice of foreign-related commercial disputes in China.

The first book in English on the law and politics of federalism and decentralization in the MENA region.

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.

The New Urban Agenda (NUA), adopted in 2016 at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, represents a globally shared understanding of the vital link between urbanization and a sustainable future.

Building on knowledge within the fields of green and eco-global criminology, this book uses empirical and theoretical arguments to discuss the multi-dimensional character of eco-global crime.

Police organizations across the globe are experiencing major changes.

The study and teaching of international human rights law is dominated by the doctrinal method.

This volume presents an overview of the evolution of the current Chinese Constitution (1982) and the characteristics of constitutional studies since 1978.

Recent years have witnessed a rapidly growing interest in the use and construction of "e;qualitative"e; indicators of labour standards.

This book is the result of an objective analysis based on quantitative research of the situation of openness of government affairs in China in 2019.

This volume presents global and comparative perspectives on the perpetual pendular movement of family law between status and contract.

With reference to China, this book examines the course of international patent rights harmonisation; its characteristics as well as impediments.

Courts in different jurisdictions face similar human rights questions.

A judgment in a civil matter rendered in a foreign country is not automatically recognized in Israel.

This book provides original, diverse, and timely insights into the nature, scope, and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially machine learning and natural language processing, in relation to contracting practices and contract law.

Kenya, like the rest of Africa, has gone through three sets of constitutional crises.

This volume explores from a legal perspective, how blockchain works.

This book addresses one of the most serious societal questions of our time: how to create new spaces and frameworks for minority recognition given the State-centric sovereignty discourse and the persisting equality jargon that dominate today's world.

The past decade has witnessed change in the ways judges for the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights are selected.

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of Mobility Partnerships and their consequences for third countries.

This book deals with the research and use of embryonic stem cells to combat a number of diseases and the legal limitations, arising mostly from bioethical concerns regarding human life.