Comparative law

This book explores the interrelation of facts and norms.

This book provides a critical examination of the foreign policy choices of one typical small state, New Zealand, as it faces the changing global balance of power.

This book addresses the need for deeper understanding of regulatory and policy regimes around the world in relation to the use of water for the production of 'unconventional' hydrocarbons, including shale gas, coal bed methane and tight oil, through hydraulic fracturing.

This book focuses on recent developments in consumer law, specifically addressing mandatory disclosures and the topical problem of information overload.

This book gathers international and national reports from across the globe on key questions in the field of antitrust and intellectual property.

This book provides in-depth insights into the regulatory frameworks of five countries and the EU concerning the regulation of genome edited plants.

This book addresses the theme of collective bargaining in different legal systems and explores legal framework of collective bargaining as well as the role of different bargaining models in domestic labour law systems in altogether twenty-one jurisdictions throughout the world.

This book provides an original account detailing the origins and components of a faith-based accounting system that was founded around 629 CE.

The book examines how and according to which principles the enactment of European criminal legislation is legitimate.

This second volume on the constitutional dimension of contract law explores this increasingly relevant subject in jurisdictions that are usually overlooked by mainstream scholarship in the English-speaking world.

This book puts forward a new theoretical concept of the juridical act, this concept is not described from the perspective of a specific national legal system, but instead represents the commonalities and ideas that stem from the Western legal tradition.

This book discusses options for an improved compliance system under the Paris Climate Agreement by addressing  current weaknesses.

This book examines how judicial reform can be effectively assessed through a procedural justice approach.

This book examines the UK approach to investigating international crimes and serious human rights violations.

This book provides a unique analysis of prisons and the violence at work inside them.

In the aftermath of the last financial crisis, on both sides of the Atlantic banking supervisors were given new supervisory and enforcement powers, which are often of a substantially punitive-criminal nature.

This book provides an analysis and comparison of international insolvency rules, maritime laws and their inevitable intersection in maritime cross-border insolvencies.

The book addresses a topic at the intersection of two heavily regulated sectors: insurance and investment services.

This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative translation into English of national and international laws of Russia that relate to the Arctic from the early 19th century to the present, revealing the historical and current context of sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction across nearly half of the north polar region.

This book presents problems that often arise in the context of international/cross-border insolvencies; analyzes and compares national legislations and jurisprudence; elucidates the solutions offered by international/regional instruments; and explores the differences in the implementation of these instruments by various countries and the consequences of these differences.

This edited collection gathers together Canadian and non-Canadian scholars to reflect on and celebrate the 20thanniversary of the Quebec Secession Reference, delivered by the Canadian Supreme Court in 1998.

Nordic law is often referred to as something different from other legal systems.

The proportionality test, as proposed in Robert Alexy's principles theory, is becoming commonplace in comparative constitutional studies.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of personal participation in criminal proceedings and in absentia trials.

This book presents an important discussion on urbanization and sustainable soil management from a range of perspectives, addressing key topics such as sustainable cities, soil sealing, rehabilitation of contaminated soils, property rights and liability issues, as well as trading systems with regard to land take.

This book explores various approaches around the world regarding price term control, and particularly discusses the effectiveness of two major paths: ex ante regulatory and ex post judicial intervention.

The proportionality test, as proposed in Robert Alexy's principles theory, is becoming commonplace in comparative constitutional studies.

This book makes a valuable contribution to the fascinating global debate on the meaning and scope of freedom of religion or belief and the relations between state, society and religion.

This book puts the spotlight on a different and neglected aspect of law drafting and reform: the question of size.

This book puts the spotlight on a different and neglected aspect of law drafting and reform: the question of size.

This book provides the first detailed analysis of the decision to prosecute made by the statutory Australian Offices of Director of Prosecution.

On every front, 24 hours a day, you and your wealth face threats of an intensity that would have been unimaginable only a few short years ago.

This work explores the transformative potential of neuroscience in reshaping India's criminal justice system.

What are drug courts?

What are drug courts?

On every front, 24 hours a day, you and your wealth face threats of an intensity that would have been unimaginable only a few short years ago.

China (the Mainland of PRC) trades with other states in trillions of USD every year, and about 95% of the cargoes are carried by ocean-going ships calling at hundreds of Chinese ports each singe day.

The growing interest in the relationship between religion and law is, in the case of Christianity, often viewed in monolithic terms.

This book explores the historical and legal importance of two principles, Quod Omnes Tangit, and Tianxia Wei Gong, which have played significant roles in European and Chinese political and legal history.

This volume arises from the inaugural Public Law Conference hosted in September 2014 by the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge, which brought together leading public lawyers from a number of common law jurisdictions.

This volume arises from the inaugural Public Law Conference hosted in September 2014 by the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge, which brought together leading public lawyers from a number of common law jurisdictions.

This book of text, cases and materials from Asia is designed for scholars and students of constitutional law and comparative constitutional law.

This short book on comparative law theory and method is designed primarily for postgraduate research students whose work involves comparison between legal systems.

This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field.

This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field.

This book is about judicial reasoning in human rights cases.

This thought-provoking introduction to the study of comparative law provides in-depth analyses of all major comparative methodologies and theories and serves as a common sense guide to the study of foreign legal systems.

This thought-provoking introduction to the study of comparative law provides in-depth analyses of all major comparative methodologies and theories and serves as a common sense guide to the study of foreign legal systems.

The world appears to be globalising economically, technologically and even, to a halting extent, politically.