Comparative law

This book explores innovative and context-driven political and legal policy measures designed to expand the powers of the African Union (AU) in order to meaningfully drive the continental integration process.

The purpose of this book is to present to lawyers outside Sweden an introduction to Private International Law as applied in Sweden.

The book examines the potential for regional competition law systems as enforcement tools in developing countries, based on a case study of the West African Economic and Monetary Union, the Andean Community and the Caribbean Community.

This book focuses on the real themes in various areas of international economic law and explores the key elements behind the written rules.

Arizona has one of the fastest growing communities of Latino immigrants in the United States.

The book presents arguments derived from primary sources related to international arbitration in South Asian jurisdictions, a list of the same is made available therein.

Legislation and case law following the relatively recent corporate scandals have increased scrutiny on the ethics and integrity of individuals, and the culture they create, at the highest levels within the corporate structure.

This book formulates a human right to research in Africa based on an in-depth examination of the available international and regional human rights instruments as well as those relevant to the national contexts of African countries.

This book presents new perspectives on gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa.

Migration policing experiments such as boat turn-backs and offshore refugee processing have been criticised as unlawful and have been characterised as exceptional.

The book provides a comprehensive overview on the legal aspects of the social security system in Turkey.

This book addresses one central question: if justice is to be done in the name of the community, how far do the decision-makers need to reflect the community, either in their profile or in the opinions they espouse?

This book discusses how the plurality of legal norms operating in the European Union can be balanced to produce a functioning, sustainable and legitimate legal system.

What is equity?

This book proposes a strategic pressure theory that argues that in emerging democracies, political competition eggs on rather than restrains power-hungry politicians.

Legal pluralism and the experience of the state in the Caucasus are at the centre of this edited volume.

Judicial decision-making may ideally be impartial, but in reality it is influenced by many different factors, including institutional context, ideological commitment, fellow justices on a panel, and personal preference.

Within the Latin American context, legal pluralism is often depicted as a dichotomy between customary law and national law.

One of the reasons for the speed with which international law has been changing in recent years has been the acceleration in the development of technology.

Comparative analyses of a range of key issues related to unjustified enrichment, an important area of private law.

This book provides fresh perspectives in the legal study of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

The empirical study of law, legal systems and legal institutions is widely viewed as one of the most exciting and important intellectual developments in the modern history of legal research.

For centuries, since the Roman Empire's adoption of Christianity, the continent of Europe has been perceived as something of a Christian fortress.

This title was originally published in 1975.

The contributions in this book cover a wide range of topics within modern disputeresolution, which can be summarised as follows: harmonisation, enforcement andalternative dispute resolution.

This book places context at the core of the Islamic mechanism of ifta' to better understand the process of issuing fatwas in Muslim and non-Muslim countries, thus highlighting the connection between context and contemporaneity, on one hand, and the adaptable perception of Islamic law, on the other.

This book provides in-depth comparative analysis of how religious penal clauses have been developed and employed within Asian common law states, and the impact of such developments on constitutional rights.

This book presents a thorough analysis of the EU provisions and legal framework of passenger rights in the civil aviation field.

This book represents a first attempt to investigate the relations between Law and Agroecology.

Constitutional litigation in general attracts two distinct types of conflict: disputes of a highly politicized or culturally controversial nature and requests from citizens claiming a violation of a fundamental constitutional right.

This book discusses various legal aspects of automated and autonomous transport.

A detailed study of the importance of the timing of guilty pleas and its effects across different legal jurisdictions.

Can the law keep up with AI?

This Volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation explores the key trends in InsurTech and the potential legal and regulatory issues that accompany them.

This book introduces and explores the concept of multilingual law.

This book contains selected contributions presented during the workshop "e;Establishing Filiation: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law?

Wealth can be transferred on death in a number of different ways, most commonly by will.

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a peer-review mechanism, reviewing all 193 UN Member States' protection and promotion of human rights.

In an era of climate change, the need to manage our water resources effectively for future generations has become an increasingly significant challenge.

The volume presents an extensive investigation into the process of reforms of detention powers in today's China and offers an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding the reformist attempts.

This book brings together thought leadership from academia and leading figures in asset management in key global jurisdictions, to pool together insights regarding the transformative visions and challenges for modern investment management, as well as best practices that realise the policy objectives in regulation and soft law.

American legal scholars have debated for some time the need for a cultural defense in criminal proceedings where minority cultural information seems perti nent to a finding of criminal responsibility in situations where a minority cultural defendant has violated a valid criminal statute.

This book considers how the law should manage conflicts between the right of religious freedom and that of non-discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.