Comparative law

This book provides a comprehensive overview on the long-term care systems in 12 EU member states and Norway.

This edited volume seeks to reassess the old and to analyse and develop novel approaches to the notion of proportionality in criminal matters and the new security architecture.

This book analyses and compares Asian trust laws to critically evaluate Asian approaches to the reception of the trust.

Debates surrounding the concept of law are not new.

This book explores three particular strategies in the extractives sector for creating shared wealth, increased labour opportunities and positive social, environmental and economic outcomes from corporate projects, namely: state wealth funds (SWF), local content policies (LCP) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices.

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

This edited collection brings together a series of interdisciplinary contributions in the field of Information Technology Law.

Private military organizations are a new and important feature of the international landscape.

This book offers a philosophical analysis of the role played by legal scholarship in the written judicial decisions of different Western legal systems.

Never in history have crises surrounding free speech raged with greater ferocity than we are witnessing today.

Providing a thorough, well-researched investigation of the socio-legal issues surrounding medically assisted death for the past century, this book traces the origins of the controversy and discusses the future of policymaking in this arena domestically and abroad.

This is a detailed account of interpretative practices and the ''law in action'' that draws lessons for the drafting of copyright exceptions.

In this landmark publication, the world's leading expert in the legal system of Saudi Arabia explains and documents the uncodified principles of contract, tort, and property that frame the business laws of the Kingdom.

Explains how the tailoring of injunctions in patent law works in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Israel.

Affirmative Action and the Law analyses the practical application of affirmative action measures and their efficacy in achieving substantive equality through the lenses of the United Nations human rights machinery and the legal regime and policies implemented in China, India, Central and South America, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

This book examines the reasoning practice of 15 constitutional courts and supreme courts, including the Caribbean Commonwealth and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Administrative litigation systems are a rapidly developing legal field in many countries.

This volume focuses on a highly challenging aspect of all European democracies, namely the issue of combining guarantees of judicial independence and mechanisms of judicial accountability.

This book addresses the importance of bilingualism in legal education.

The book examines whether small jurisdictions (states) are confronted with specific issues providing social security and how to deal with these issues.

Despite some significant advances in the creation and protection of rights affecting women's health, these do not always translate into actual health benefits for women.

The economic and geopolitical implications of China's rise have been the subject of vast commentary.

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.

The book argues that the concept of self-defense in Islamic and International law is compatible.

Leading scholars provide a fresh theoretical look at the reasons why many legal development projects fail.

Claudia Letzien untersucht am Beispiel der USA, Deutschlands und Großbritanniens die Strafbarkeit der Bestechung ausländischer Amtsträger und die verschiedenen Sanktionen, die in diesem Zusammenhang gegen Unternehmen verhängt werden können.

La retribución de los administradores sociales es una pieza fundamental en el gobierno corporativo de las compañías capitalistas.

In recent decades, there have been many changes to adoption law and practice, such as a sharp decline in the voluntary relinquishment of children, an increase in the number consigned to public care, and an abrupt decrease in those made available on an intercountry basis.

This book aims to advance the understanding of pre-commercial procurement (PCP) as innovation policy instrument and as means to fulfil public needs.

This comprehensive study examines the development and changing characteristics of the judicial system and reform process over the past three decades in China.

The Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration is the first academic publication aiming to offer comprehensive coverage, on a yearly basis, of the most recent and salient developments regarding international sports arbitration, through a combination of general articles and case notes.

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This book seeks to open new lines of discussion about how Islamic law is viewed as a potential tool for programs of social transformation in contemporary Muslim society.

Integrating research methods from linguistics with contemporary legal argumentation theory, this book highlights the complexities of legal justification by focusing on the role of value-laden language in argument construction and use.

This book discusses the need for national space legislation in India in the wake of private stakeholders entering the field and the expansion of outer space activities.

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

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

Recently the contract section of the German Civil Code was amended after one hundred years of un-altered existence.

This title was first published in 2001.

The first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees under international law.

Presents a series of distinct sociological inquiries into the formation of contemporary European law and society.

This book presents, analyses and evaluates the Principles of Latin American Contract Law (PLACL), a recent set of provisions aiming at the harmonisation of contract law at a regional level.