Comparative law

This collection discusses the concept of fraternity and examines the issue of its role in law.

The notion of property in work has deep historical roots in the common law tradition, but is yet to receive the attention it deserves.

Traditional legal borders are increasingly contested in the present day.

The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law provides a conceptual and historical account of the Jewish understanding of law.

This book thoroughly reviews China's participation in the WTO dispute settlement system with a focus on the interaction between China's distinctive institutional characters and international legal regime and an aim of not only revealing the Chinese phenomenon but also identifying the Chinese mode and the rationale that lies behind China's mode change.

Laws are imposed on facts.

A global overview of evidentiary reasoning with contributions from leading authorities from different legal traditions and four continents.

Scholars in law, theology and political theory exchange views on five specific challenges to religious liberty in the twenty-first century.

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European and American experts systematically compare U.

An in-depth legal analysis of the Constitutional Treaty which, if ratified by all Member States, would govern the EU.

What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place to another?

There remains an urgent need for a deeper discussion of the theoretical, political and federal dimensions of the European codification project.

This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa.

Considers the lessons that French medical accident liability and redress law provides for possible reform in England and elsewhere.

This book discusses contemporary standards of legal safeguards in the area of bulk electronic surveillance from the perspective of the European legal model.

For all the attention paid to the Founder Fathers in contemporary American debates, it has almost been wholly forgotten how deeply they embraced an ambitious and intellectually profound valuation of foreign legal experience.

This collection brings together a group of highly respected law and religion scholars to explore the funding of religious heritage in the context of state support for religions.

This book covers all major topics in international tax law, ranging from permanent establishments and capital gains to the taxation of royalties and technical services, transfer pricing, and General Anti-Avoidance Legislation.

What is the future of constitutionalism, state and law in the new technological age?

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

This book applies libertarian property rights theory to a vexing controversy, abortion.

This book focuses on contemporary problems related to fraud and risk in commercial law.

In the last decade or so, China and India have emerged on the global stage as two powerful free market economies.

Since 1979 the world has witnessed a remarkable cycle of personal insolvency law reform.

This collection analyses the regulatory aspects of harmful interference faced by those entities operating space communication and broadcasting.

How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi GermanyNazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States.

The law relating to general defences is one of the most important areas in the criminal law, yet the current state of the law in the United Kingdom reveals significant problems in the adoption of a consistent approach to their doctrinal and theoretical underpinnings, as exemplified by a number of recent developments in legislation and case law.

Professor Zhiping Liang offers a new understanding of Chinese legal tradition in this profoundly influential book.

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 covers the protection of chemical inventions by means of Patents and Utility Models, as well as Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) for medicaments and agrochemicals.

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The first in-depth comparative analysis of shareholder stewardship, which reveals the complexities of this global movement that were previously unknown.

Criminal defence at the investigative stage has attracted growing attention due to the shifting focus of the criminal process onto pre-trial stages, and the recent European regulations adopted in this area.

This book is concerned with the vulnerability of suspects and defendants in criminal proceedings and the extent to which the vulnerable accused can effectively participate in the criminal process.

This book, based on the theory of Marxism-Leninism, aims to study the essence, content and features of various legal systems in China in different historical periods, as well as the rules of the development of Chinese legal systems.

Menachem Mautner offers a compelling account of Israeli law as a site for the struggle over the shaping of Israeli culture.

This book highlights the main features of the economic, commercial, political, fiscal and financial systems of each of the ASEAN countries from a domestic and an international point of view.

This book provides a comparison and practical guide for academics, students, and the business community of the current data protection laws in selected Asia Pacific countries (Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand) and the European Union.

This volume is the first comprehensive study of the Polish history of law and Christianity written in English for a global audience.

This book examines how the functioning of the International Criminal Court has become a forum of convergence between the common law and civil law criminal justice systems.

Using a comparative approach, this book analyses the history of China''s private property protection at the constitutional level since 1949.