Comparative law

This volume considers the use of impeachment within a global context.

This book brings recent insights about sovereignty and citizen participation in the Belgian Constitution to scholars in the fields of law, philosophy, history, and politics.

This book assesses the Statute for a European Cooperative Society (SCE) regarding agricultural activities by comparing how specific questions arising in this context must be dealt with under the Italian and Austrian legal systems.

EtYIL 2018 comes at a time when multilateralism and its underpinning norms of international law and institutions are under siege.

Asks how the ''parchment'' promises of a written constitution are translated into political practice, working through the many problems of constitutional implementation after adoption.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in Turkey's labour dispute resolution system, and helps compare the Turkish system especially with those in European countries.

The rise of the regulatory state has been a major feature of modern constitutional democracies.

Countries which take spatial planning seriously should take planning law and property rights also seriously.

This book explores the legal implications of China's state-directed economic model for the existing international economic order.

The book reviews the origin and development of the exclusionary rule in China, and systematically explains the problems and challenges faced by criminal justice reformers.

This book adopts a comparative and empirical approach to the discussion relating to the subject matter.

This book brings together some of the most respected Asian and Australasian experts on medical liability to provide insightful perspectives on civil and criminal law from selected Australasian jurisdictions.

Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the current directions in social rehabilitation scholarship and research by bringing together the voices of legal scholars, criminal justice professionals, social scientists, and people directly impacted by criminal justice in a comparative, international, and interdisciplinary fashion.

People's Tribunals are independent, peaceful, grassroots movements, created by members of civil society, to address impunity that is associated with ongoing or past atrocities.

The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies provides a new forum for the scrutiny of significant issues in European Union Law,the law of the Council of Europe, and Comparative Law with a 'European' dimension, and particularly those which have come to the fore during the year preceding publication.

This book provides an in-depth overview of what is currently happening in the field of Law and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Like medicine, law is replete with axioms of prevention.

This book provides an accessible introduction to selected new issues in transnational law, and connects them to existing theoretical debates on transnational business regulation.

Incidents of bioterrorism and biowarfare are likely to recur, leading to increased public concern and government action.

The global financial and economic crisis which started in 2008 has had devastating effects around the globe.

The book highlights several aspects with 'Chinese characteristics' that set the country's financial system apart.

Nations throughout the world receive more patent applications, grant more patents, and entertain more patent infringement lawsuits than ever before.

By examining the reasons behind the preventive criminalization of Chinese criminal law, this book argues that the shift of criminal law generates popular expectations of legislative participation, and meets punitive demands of the public, but the expansion of criminal law lacks effective constraints, which will keep restricting people's freedom in the future.

The field of Legal translation and interpreting has strongly expanded over recent years.

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.

Constitutions serve to delineate state powers and enshrine basic rights.

This book employs a comparative approach to comprehensively discuss hosting ISPs' (Internet Service Providers') responsibilities for copyright infringement in the US, EU and China.

This book brings legal and academic perspective to the theory and practice surrounding the right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time.

This book proposes three liability regimes to combat the wide responsibility gaps caused by AI systems vicarious liability for autonomous software agents (actants); enterprise liability for inseparable human-AI interactions (hybrids); and collective fund liability for interconnected AI systems (crowds).

This book highlights and responds to core questions related to social inclusion of people with disabilities nationally and internationally.

This book's essays seek to cleanse comparative law of some of the epistemic detritus it has been collecting and that has been cluttering its theory and practice to the point where this flotsam has effectively stultified 'good' comparison.

There are different forms of discrimination.

This book offers an innovative approach to the topic of liability in international arbitration, a controversial topic that has heretofore not been fully explored in the scholarship.

Two of the most important developments of this new century are the emergence of cloud computing and big data.

This book examines the institutional relationship between religions, political regimes, and human rights.

In the 1980s the West German Peace Movement -- fearing that the stationing of NATO nuclear missiles in Germany threatened an imminent nuclear war in Europe -- engaged in massive protests, including sustained civil disobedience in the form of sit-down demonstrations.

This book assembles the world''s most authoritative specialists for a comparative analysis of the enforcement of corporate and securities laws in thirteen national jurisdictions.

In Climate Change Law in China in Global Context, seven climate change law scholars explain how the country's legal system is gradually being mobilized to support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in China and achieve adaptation to climate change.

This book takes a law and economic approach to examine the securities law enforcement in China and provides an in-depth empirical analysis on the enforcement inputs and outputs.

This book addresses the impact of developments surrounding the freedom of expression of judges by building on the experience of judges themselves, legal practitioners and academics across Europe.

This book examines how local cultures affect the interpretation of international human rights law.

This textbook focuses on the interrelationships between economic elements and legal principles with regard to business and company law.

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.