Comparative law

The work considers the international and European obligations of the UK in the realm of challenging the far-right and assesses the extent to which it adheres to them.

This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa.

This book highlights that an independent judiciary is indispensable for the very existence of any society based on democratic values, such as the observance of the rule of law and respect for the human rights of individuals.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law addresses some of the most critical issues facing scholars, legislators, and judges today: how to protect against threats to public health that can quickly cross national borders, how to ensure access to affordable health care, and how to regulate the pharmaceutical industry, among many others.

In 1986, the Supreme Court's leading conservative, William H.

This book addresses the interrelationship between economic and financial crises, the responses thereto, and economic and social rights.

There has been a rapid increase in the pace and scope of international collaborative research in developing countries in recent years.

This book provides a comprehensive human rights analysis of key areas of law affecting older persons, including legal capacity; elder abuse; accommodation and aged care; healthcare; employment; financial security, retirement, and estate planning; and social and cultural participation.

This volume examines European and national higher-court decisions on social media from the perspective of fundamental rights and judicial dialogue.

The book provides the first annual English language foreign affairs record for Germany from the perspective of international law.

His recurring theme is how to marry trade and non-trade rules, or economic and non-economic objectives at the international level.

This collection of essays by experts in the field explores the place of the trust in the modern civil law.

This book specifically covers issues regarding jurisdiction and the recognition andenforcement of judgments in cross-border mass disputes relating to financial services.

This collection of essays highlights the sometimes absurd outcomes which an unjustified overprotection of intellectual property (IP) may lead to.

This volume presents a leading contribution to the substantive arena relating to consent in the criminal law.

Rethinking Legal Scholarship bridges the gap between American and European legal scholarship by looking at underlying methodological challenges.

It is becoming increasingly common for human rights norms to be transferred between legal and political systems and this book is a fresh approach to the intersection of transnational law and the protection of cultural difference beyond the single state border.

The European codification project has rapidly gathered pace since the turn of the century.

Durch die Rechtsprechung des EuGH zur Niederlassungsfreiheit von Gesellschaften wird der Grundsatz der gegenseitigen Anerkennung (Herkunftslandprinzip) auch im Bereich der Niederlassungsfreiheit von Gesellschaften etabliert.

This book discusses the basic theories and structures employed in handling the Central-SAR relationship under the "e;One Country, Two Systems"e; policy from the perspective of ruling by law.

The book presents contributions from Brazilian experts on the regulation of different energy sources.

This book offers insight on access to justice from rural areas in internationally comparable contexts to highlight the diversity of experiences within, and across rural areas globally.

Proposes a multidisciplinary approach that seeks to grapple with the pluralist reality rather than ignoring it.

The special diplomatic agent has played in the history of American foreign policy an important and, it is safe to say, unique role.

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

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

This book focuses on the restructuring of distressed businesses, emphasizing the need for new financing during the restructuring process as well as during relaunch, and examines the role of law in encouraging creditor confidence and incentivizing lending.

This book explores the relationship between populism or populist regimes and constitutional interpretation used in those regimes.

This book provides practical, business-orientated and accessible guidance on key aspects of German employment and labour law as well as adjoining fields.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of globalization on the legal profession in India.

In contrast to the views current only a few years ago, when federalism as a system of government was regarded, in academic circles in North America at least, as passe and even reactionary, there is today throughout the world, and especially in Western Europe, a tremendous interest in the federal idea.

The edited volume explores the causes, forms, and cultures of gender-based violence in society, including how children are educated, how games, art and even language promote differences, stereotypes, neutrality between men and women.

This book addresses age-based persecution of children as a crime against humanity in connection with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes (persecution - with some variation in the elements of the crime - is an existing offence under the Rome Statute of the permanent International Criminal Court, the statutes of various international criminal tribunals i.

This book argues that law has a vital role in shaping the electricity system to enable a more active role for consumers in liberalizsed electricity industries.

Most books on terrorism deal with descriptions of terrorist organizations and activities, some examine privacy and civil liberties issues, and others treat terrorism as a series of policy choices.

This volume provides an overview of thestate of internationalisation of legal education (IOLE) in many civil law andcommon law countries.

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

This book presents and evaluates theoretical approaches to ''pluralist jurisprudence'' and assesses the viability of theorising law extending beyond the state.

Das vorliegende Werk untersucht erstmals die Bezüge zwischen dem deutschen Recht und dem Rechtssystem in den Harry-Potter-Büchern.

A Theory of African Constitutionalism asks and seeks to answer why we need a new theoretical framework for African constitutionalism and how this could offer us better theoretical and practical tools with which to understand, improve, and assess African constitutionalism on its own terms.

Giving victims of crime a greater role in the criminal justice system is a relatively recent development, a trend likely to continue and increase in the foreseeable future.