Comparative law

This book aims to enhance understanding of the interactions between the international and national rule of law.

An estimated 35 million people worldwide are displaced by conflict, and most of them are women and children.

This book addresses the relationship between efficient management of critical minerals and sustainability in the Global South, including Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book presents a series of authoritative discussions of the application of Jewish tradition to contemporary social and political issues.

This book represents a unique contribution to understanding the interactions between law and religion in contemporary Brazil.

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

South Africa's 1996 'Final' Constitution is widely recognised as the crowning achievement of the country's dramatic transition to democracy.

This book develops a legal argument as to how persons with intellectual disability can flourish in a liberal setting through the exercise of human rights, even though they are perceived as non-autonomous.

This book examines selected high-profile U.

A survey of the regulation of human germline genome modification in eighteen countries and the emerging international standards.

This book analyzes the law and politics in the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

Religious freedom is a fundamental and relatively uncontested right in both the United States and Europe.

The main objectives of media regulation in Europe are to protect media freedom, to ensure the social responsibility of the media, and to prevent harm caused by speech published through the media.

This book focuses on sovereignty referendums, which have been used throughout different historical periods of democratization, decolonization, devolution, secession and state creation.

Combining feminist legal theory with international human rights concepts, this book examines the presence, participation and treatment of children in a variety of contexts.

Analyzes courts in fourteen selected Asian jurisdictions to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive interdisciplinary book available.

In-depth, comparative analyses of German, UK and US company laws, illustrated by leading cases.

This book examines why laws fail and provides strategies for making laws that work.

When corruption is exposed, unknown aspects are revealed which allow us to better understand its structures and informal norms.

Excessive household debt has allowed for economic growth, but this model has become increasingly unstable.

The world's only annual publication devoted to the study of the laws of armed conflict, the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law provides a truly international forum for high-quality, peer-reviewed academic articles focusing on this highly topical branch of international law.

This timely book examines crucial developments in the field of privacy law, efforts by legal systems to impose their data protection standards beyond their borders and claims by states to assert sovereignty over data.

We have witnessed a digital revolution that affects the dynamics of existing traditional social, economic, political and legal systems.

This book examines the regulatory, environmental, financial, socio-legal, and safety aspects that shape offshore energy infrastructure projects and their operation.

The Mode 4 commitments of WTO Members are narrow and shallow.

This book discusses the main legal questions raised by free and open source software (FOSS) licenses and other alternative license models, such as Creative Commons.

Italian Private Law provides an excellent overview and analysis of Italian private law and its transition from the early twentieth century legal tradition to a system based on constitutional values, geared towards European integration.

This collection brings together international experts to present a comparative analysis of wrongful conviction and criminal procedure.

This is a pioneering work.

This book adopts Durkheim's legal perspective to treat law as a symbol of social solidarities to examine Chinese society.

In the internet age, the need for effective consumer law enforcement has arguably never been greater.

In this ground-breaking two-volume set, world-leading experts produce a rich, authoritative depiction of the world's press, its freedom, and its limits.

Constitutional rights protect individuals against government overreaching, but that is not all they do.

During the past decade, administrative law has experienced remarkable development.

This book introduces the fundamental monetary law problems of cross-border economic activity and the solutions thereto in international monetary law, and in EU law.

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

In the world of law enforcement art and antiquity crime has in the past usually assumed a place of low interest and priority.

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

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which was adopted unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, marked a turning point in the perception of children in international law and policy.

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.

This book discusses selected frontier and hot theoretical and practical issues of international law in the 21st century and in the process of China's peaceful development strategy, such as interactions between harmonious world, international law and China s peaceful development; close connections of China rule of law with international rule of law; issues of international law resulted from the war of Former Yugoslavia, establishment of ICC, DPRK nuclear test, Iraq War,  Independence of Crimea; features of WTO rule of law and its challenges as well as legal and practical disputes between China and other members in the WTO; recent tendency of regional trade agreements and  characteristics of Chinese practices in this aspect; legal issues in relations between China and the European Union with a view of the framework of China-EU Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.