Comparative law

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.

Until quite recently questions about methodology in legal research have been largely confined to understanding the role of doctrinal research as a scholarly discipline.

The problem of enforcing a money judgment exists in every legal system in the world, but the methods and orientation vary significantly.

This book addresses the key issues, challenges and implications arising out of changes in the copyright law and corresponding judicial responses.

By exploring crimmigration at its intersection with international refugee law, this book exposes crimmigration as a system focused on the governance of territorially present migrants, which internalizes the impracticability of removal and replaces expulsion with domestic policing.

This book shines a light on the still unexplored relationships between federalism and disability rights.

The introduction of self-assessment for income tax collection in the late 1990s marked a striking moment of cultural convergence between the UK and the US.

Trademark law today demands that its practitioners, exponents, and policy-makers understand principles of international and comparative law.

Written by distinguished legal and linguistic scholars and practitioners from the EU institutions, the contributions in this volume provide multidisciplinary perspectives on the vital role of language and culture as key forces shaping the dynamics of EU law.

This volume challenges the concept of constitutional success, a bedrock assumption of comparative constitutional scholarship.

This book addresses one of the core challenges in the corporate social responsibility (or business and human rights) debate: how to ensure adequate access to remedy for victims of corporate abuses that infringe upon their human rights.

Advancing legal scholarship in the area of mixed legal systems, as well as comparative law more generally, this book expands the comparative study of the world's legal families to those of jurisdictions containing not only mixtures of common and civil law, but also to those mixing Islamic and/or traditional legal systems with those derived from common and/or civil law traditions.

This volume offers insights into the consequences of a growing reliance on the principle of solidarity to ''inscribe'' social policies.

For the first time since 1601, a number of leading common law nations have almost simultaneously chosen to revise and place on the statute books the law relating to charity.

Comparative analysis of vindicatio, possessory remedies and trespass across sixteen European jurisdictions based on twelve straightforward factual cases.

Governments use human rights both as a tool and as an objective of foreign policy.

This book offers a thorough analysis of the Amicus Curiae phenomenon, emphasizing its critical role in modern legal systems.

This guide to the rules which regulate anti-doping in sport includes numerous case studies.

Cesare Beccaria's slim 1764 volume On Crimes and Punishments influenced policy developments worldwide and over decades, if not centuries, after its publication.

The first in-depth analysis of the independent director in Asia: who they are, what they do and how they are regulated.

This book explores the recent development of the Supreme People's Court of China, the world's largest highest court.

The purpose of this book is to describe the problems posed in the formulation of international rules for bays at the present time, to investigate the history of the several interests that have influenced the development of such rules, to trace the efforts that have been made to codify the rules, and to suggest a further refinement of the rules.

This Oxford Handbook ambitiously seeks to lay the groundwork for the relatively new field of comparative foreign relations law.

This volume examines cases of accommodation and recognition of minority practices: cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic or otherwise, under state law.

This work aims to analyse substantive and conflict of laws rules regarding intermediated securities in a comparative way.

An insider''s account and analysis of the largest concentration of constitutional reform since the end of the cold war.

Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical foundations of contract law in which Professor Fried effectively answers some of the most common assumptions about contract law and strongly proposes a moral basis for it while defending the classical theory of contract.

Based on original historical data, this book shows that key changes in design can extend constitutional life.

This book brings together research on police integrity on regions worldwide.

This book presents a set of related studies aimed at showing key points of intersection and common interest between jurisprudence and socio-legal studies, which are otherwise typically considered distinct fields.

Discusses Upendra Baxi''s role as an Indian jurist and how his contributions have shaped our understanding of legal jurisprudence.

This book examines administrative law in Asia, exploring the profound changes in the legal regimes of many Asian states that have taken place in recent years.