Comparative law

Highly digitalised businesses threaten the viability of the international corporate tax system.

Explores the effects in theory and in practice of recent foreign inspired legal reforms in East Asia and Oceania.

In this meticulously researched volume, Leonard Wood presents his ground breaking history of Islamic revivalist thought in Islamic law.

This book provides an in-depth discussion of the theoretical and practical issues of criminal imputation for negligence crime involving artificial intelligence.

Drugs Law and Legal Practice in Southeast Asia investigates criminal law and practice relevant to drugs regulation in three Southeast Asian jurisdictions: Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam.

This book considers the effectiveness and fairness of using international cooperation to obtain confession evidence or evidence of a suspect or accused person's silence across borders.

Introduces the concept of ''IP accidents'' to establish a new way to look at intellectual property law and its enforcement.

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 volume presents a comparison of the experiences of NGOs in China and Europe.

Traditionally relegated because of political pressure and public expectations, courts in Latin America are increasingly asserting a stronger role in public and political discussions.

Written by experts from within their communities, this book compares the legal regimes of Christian churches as systems of religious law.

The book reflects on constitutional balancing from the perspective of fundamental labour rights.

An examination of the legal framework of the EU internal market.

This book provides valuable insights into various contemporary issues in public and private maritime law, including interdisciplinary aspects.

This book analyzes the dispute settlement mechanisms under the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), including the already established mechanisms for general state-to-state dispute settlement and the Mechanism to Address Differences for investment and sustainable development issues.

This book explains the urgent necessity to compile a Civil Code and calls for constitutional awareness in compiling that Civil Code, highlighting the need for it to be done in a democratic and scientific manner.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of and multidisciplinary insights into the latest trends in biodiversity laws, policies and science in Europe, the United States, and China.

This book invites newcomers to analytical legal philosophy to reconsider the terms in which they are accustomed to describing and defending their jurisprudential allegiances.

The book presents timely and needed contributions on privacy and data protection seals as seen from general, legal, policy, economic, technological, and societal perspectives.

This book explores the ways language is used by the professional legal community for the communication of its main business - the negotiation of justice - in today's globalized world.

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

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

Details approaches to implementing equal rights for women in Africa, children in the Middle East and different minorities in Asia and North America.

This book provides a comparison and practical guide of the data protection laws of Canada, China (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan), Laos, Philippines, South Korea, United States and Vietnam.

The book is a comparative study of the national security review of foreign investment laws in China and the US.

It is the first study which comprehensively, systematically and critically examines the role and usefulness of the concept of Maqasid al-Shari'a (higher Objectives of Islamic Law) in contemporary Muslim reformist thought in relation to number of specific issues pertaining to Islamic legal philosophy, law, ethics and the socio-political sphere.

Uwe Kischel's comprehensive treatise on comparative law offers a critical introduction to the central tenets of comparative legal scholarship.

This series argues that there is a common administrative core to European legal systems that can be better understood in comparative terms.

This book analyses the legal regimes governing bank crisis management in the EU, UK, and US, discussing the different procedures and tools available as well as the regulatory architecture and the authorities involved.

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

This comparative study of the law of lawmaking demonstrates the interplay between constitutional principles and political imperatives in four modern polities.

This book offers a socio-legal exploration of localised consumer complaint processing and dispute resolution in the People's Republic of China – now the second largest consumer market in the world – and the experiences of both ordinary and 'professional' consumers.

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

Organised crime and financial crime are pressing global problems, increasingly recognised as policy priorities both by national governments and international bodies and corporations.

This book applies libertarian property rights theory to a vexing controversy, abortion.

The subject of this book is human rights law, focusing on historic achievement of a common standard viewed from a perspective of Pengchun Chang's contributions to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

Comprehensive and forward-looking analysis of civil liability for terrorism-related risk under international, EU and selected national tort laws.

This book explains how the idea and practice of UCA are shaped by, and inform, constitutional politics through various social and political actors, and in both formal and informal amendment processes, across Asia.

The law relating to general defences is one of the most important areas in the criminal law, yet the current state of the law in the United Kingdom reveals significant problems in the adoption of a consistent approach to their doctrinal and theoretical underpinnings, as exemplified by a number of recent developments in legislation and case law.

Critical Race Theory (CRT) is virtually unheard of in European scholarship, especially among legal scholars.

Choice of law determines which national legal system applies to an international case.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book provides a snapshot of privacy laws and practices from a varied set of jurisdictions in order to offer guidance on national and international contemporary issues regarding the processing of personal data and serves as an up-to-date resource on the applications and practice-relevant examples of data protection laws in different countries.

This book explores the jurisprudence from international, regional and national sources on the interpretation and application of human rights concepts.

This book offers a comparative perspective on 18 countries' legal regulation of crowdfunding.

Recent social developments, such as demographic change, skill shortages and new medical technologies, have necessitated a transition in the traditional roles of health-care professions.