Comparative law

The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law series describes and analyzes the public law of the European legal space, an area that encompasses not only the law of the European Union but also the European Convention on Human Rights and, importantly, the domestic public laws of European states.

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While the role of comparative law in the courts was previously only an exception, foreign sources are now increasingly becoming a source of law in regular use in supreme and constitutional courts.

This comparative appraisal of competition law and policy draws on examples from both the developed and the developing worlds.

Marking the 50th anniversary of modern statutory competition law in Australia, this two-volume set brings together more than 40 leading experts to discuss the most important issues and developments arising under Australian competition law, economics, and policy.

This monograph addresses the legal and policy issues relating to the commercial exploitation of natural resources in outer space.

Marginalized Communities and Access to Justice is a comparative study, by leading researchers in the field of law and justice, of the imperatives and constraints of access to justice among a number of marginalized communities.

This book argues that national and international courts seek to enhance their reputations through the strategic exercise of judicial power.

This edited collection provides a comprehensive, insightful, and detailed study of a vital area of public policy debate as it is currently occurring in countries across the world from India to South Africa and the United Kingdom to Australia.

For a country of its size, Taiwan has a tremendous influence on world affairs and U.

Non-recognized States are a widespread and politically sensitive de facto phenomenon in international politics, raising numerous questions from both a public international law and private law perspective.

Marking the 50th anniversary of modern statutory competition law in Australia, this two-volume set brings together more than 40 leading experts to discuss the most important issues and developments arising under Australian competition law, economics, and policy.

Annually, the government commits significant expenditure to a type of public contracts which are known as Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) or the Private Finance Initiative (PFI).

This innovative book blends constitutional theory with real-life political practice to explore the impact of codifying constitutional amendments on the operation of the constitution in relation to democracy, the rule of law, and the separation of powers.

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

This book explains the growing empowerment of the Colombian Constitutional Court in the early years of the 21st century and develops the concept of the deliberative judge.

This book focuses on Chinese cases on the CISG decided by Chinese courts of all levels, focusing on those decided from 2013 to 2016.

Examines how copyright can evolve without compromising the interests of authors, users and those who connect them.

Today, pluralism is increasingly the norm and can be seen as a permanent characteristic of modernity.

The first transnational comparative study of legal party capability theory Justice is supposed to be blind.

Principles of French Law offers a comprehensive introduction to French law and the French legal system in terms which a common lawyer can understand.

This book examines the prospects for business law reform to drive economic development in developing countries.

This book critically examines how corporate law and governance can be and should be used to promote sustainability in Asia.

Sudan and South Sudan have suffered from repeated cycles of conflict and authoritarianism resulting in serious human rights and humanitarian law violations.

This book examines the role, the general framework and the empirical effectiveness of the main alternative dispute resolution tools (administrative appeals, mediation, and ombudsman) in administrative matters, within the broader context of the administrative justice system.

Jens HETLAND & Teimuraz GOCHITASHVILI In contrast to oil, natural gas is usually routed through pipeline systems stretched from the wellhead to the end-user - although liquefied natural gas (LNG) is gaining increased interest; the commercialisation of natural gas fields is inherently linked to rigid transportation systems that require huge investments in tangible assets fixed to specific locations; the supply of natural gas is constrained by the transportation system, and requires access to appropriate infrastructure for transport and distribution; the trading of natural gas is traditionally associated with long-term contracts, albeit the duration per se of gas transport contracts appears to be less important after the deregulation of the energy markets.

This book addresses practical issues in connoisseurship and authentication, as well as the legal implications that arise when an artwork's authenticity is challenged.

Globally, there has been a shift from securities being held directly by an investor, to a situation in which many securities are held via an intermediary.

More than half of the world's population lives in cities; by 2050, it will be more than three quarters.

Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights explores how general human rights standards have enabled, empowered and constrained indigenous peoples in claiming and defending their essential economic, social, cultural, civil and political interests.

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

This book contains the proceedings of the conference “Comparative Data Law”, which was held in Munich in December 2023.

This fascinating study uses qualitative and quantitative data and insights from interviews with judges, lawyers, government officials, entrepreneurs, bankers, consultants, and academics in China and abroad, to provide a new perspective on the problems that have hindered the implementation of the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law in China, and recent attempts at reform.

Comparative Legal Reasoning and European Law deals with the use of comparative law in European legal adjudication.

What does the right to the continuous improvement of living conditions in Article 11(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights really mean and how can it contribute to social change?

This book reviews and assesses the status quo concerning the rule of law in China in 2017 and predicts its future development in such fields as legislation, judicial reform, civil, commercial and economic law, social law, safeguarding of human rights, criminality, Internet finance, the securities market, pilot free trade zones, administrative public interest litigation, regulation of investment management business, and AI.

Corruption is a globalising phenomenon.

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the successes and failures in China's current legal system construction.

A multidisciplinary and international examination of the developing debates around using the criminal law to sanction disease transmission.

This book examines an interesting and relatively understudied area of the evolution of the international rule of law and the role of professional ethics.

Focusing on paid work that blurs traditional legal boundaries and the challenge this poses to traditional forms of labour regulation, this collection of original case studies illustrates the wide range of different forms of regulation designed to provide decent work.

This book examines US recourse to military force in the post-9/11 era.

This book explores the relationship between custom and Islamic law and seeks to uncover the role of custom in the construction of legal rulings.