Comparative law

This book explores how Islam can impact the structures and performance of firms, financial institutions and capital markets across a range of countries and industries.

For many years, legislators around the world have responded to the particular needs of consumers by introducing dedicated rules for consumer sales contracts.

This volume addresses the idea of origins, how things are formed, and how they relate to their present and future in terms of 'constitution-making' which is a continuous process in South Asian states.

Explores new forms of belonging across borders to foster more robust protections for non-citizens.

This book gathers contributions from a broad range of jurisdictions, written by practitioners and academics alike, and offers an unparalleled comparative view of key issues in competition law, intellectual property and unfair competition law, with a specific focus on the use of personal data.

Over the last 15 years, K bler liability has resulted in the allocation of damages on only five occasions.

This book offers conceptual analyses, highlights issues, proposes solutions, and discusses practices regarding privacy and data protection in transitional times.

This book focuses on India's participation in the WTO dispute settlement system, at a time when India has emerged as one of the most successful and prominent users of WTO dispute settlement among the developing countries.

Constitutions are often seen as the product of the free will of a people exercising their constituent power.

This book is the first analysis of parental care regimes in Muslim jurisdictions, both in a comparative and country-specific sense.

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

This book provides a vital and original investigation into, and critique of, the situation facing the realisation of the child's right to play.

This volume takes a look at the status quo of whistleblowing in several jurisdictions from around the world.

Legal lexicography or jurilexicography is the most neglected aspect of the discipline of jurilinguistics, despite its great relevance for translators, academics and comparative lawyers.

International courts and tribunals are increasingly asked to pass judgment on matters that are traditionally considered to fall within the domestic jurisdiction of States.

The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law series describes and analyses the public law of the European legal space, an area that encompasses not only the law of the European Union but also the European Convention on Human Rights and, importantly, the domestic public laws of European states.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the Italian experience of transitional justice examining how the crimes of Fascism and World War II have been dealt with from a comparative perspective.

Millions of people all over the world have been displaced from their homes and property.

This is the story of how democracy became entrenched in the world''s largest Muslim-majority country.

Copyright is not one-size-fits-all.

As more restrictive asylum policies are adopted around the world, Ghezelbash explores the implications for the international refugee protection regime.

This book focuses on two main aspects: legal convergence and crises.

Das Recht des Patienten auf Selbstbestimmung ist in den Mittelpunkt des Arzt-Patienten-Verhältnisses gerückt.

In the State of Israel, the unique family law derives from ancient Jewish law, halakhic traditions, and an extensive legal tradition spanning many centuries and geographic locations.

This Volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation focuses on transparency as the guiding principle of modern insurance law.

Concerns associated with globalisation of markets, exacerbated by the 'credit crunch', have placed pressure on many nation states to make their labour markets more 'flexible'.

The recognition and enforcement of legitimate expectations by courts has been a striking feature of English law since R v North and East Devon Health Authority; ex parte Coughlan [2001] 3 QB 213.

This book contains a series of essays on conflict laws, including jurisdiction of the courts, choice of law, renvoi, property, recognition of family status, and recognition of foreign corporations.

This book focuses on the regulatory, supervisory and policy resolutions of the problems of the financial and banking system during the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.

How often is the defense of insanity or temporary insanity for accused criminals valid-or is it ever legitimate?

This book focuses on China's evolution in the field of human rights protection, highlighting its achievements in various systems of human rights protection, as well as its role in international human rights governance and the healthy development of human rights.

This book focuses on the reality of China's modern judiciary, systematically demonstrating and discussing the judicial philosophy and judicial ethics as applied by Chinese courts and judges.

In Europa bestehen seit jeher sehr unterschiedliche Systeme der Kapitalgesellschaften.

Consumer law, particularly consumer credit law, is characterised by increasingly complex regulation in Western economies.

This book brings together critical legal analyses of ongoing global issues in the digital age by international lawyers in Asia.

This volume discusses EU criminal justice from three perspectives.

The book analyses the impact the jurisprudence of the constitutional courts of EU Member States and the Court of Justice of the European Union has had on the perception of freedom of communications in the digital era with respect to these courts' judgments regarding regulating storage and access to telecommunications data (known as telecommunications data retention) from 2008 to 2017.

This book serves as a comprehensive study of and provides rich insight into non-market economy treatment, including its past, present, and estimated future practices and implications.

This book is about the International Criminal Court (ICC), a new and highly distinctive criminal justice institution with the ability to prosecute the highest-level government officials, including heads of state, even in countries that have not accepted its jurisdiction.

This  publication examines the legal aspects of the spare parts market from an IP perspective: specifically whether design protection for spare parts of a complex product extends to the spare part aftermarket, or whether that market should remain open to competition.

International sentencing has become significant given the numerous events on the world stage which have focused attention on the justifications and adequacy of punishment for heinous crimes such as genocide and crimes against humanity.

The rule of law represents the heart of constitutionalism.

International law has played a crucial role in the construction of imperial projects.