Comparative law

This new edition of European Contract Law examines the contract rules of several different European jurisdictions, including the most important civilian systems and English common law, while attempting to articulate general principles which are common in all of them.

While previous volumes have examined specific issues and developments such as the coronavirus crisis or digital transformation from a law and economics perspective, the anniversary edition returns to the methodological and philosophical fundament of the discipline of law and economics.

Going beyond the more usual focus on Jerusalem as a sacred place, this book presents legal perspectives on the most important sacred places of the Mediterranean.

The European Yearbook of Constitutional Law (EYCL) is an annual publication devoted to the study of constitutional law.

This book is a judicial, military and political history of the period 1941 to 1954.

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 system.

Advancing legal scholarship in the area of mixed legal systems, as well as comparative law more generally, this book expands the comparative study of the world's legal families to those of jurisdictions containing not only mixtures of common and civil law, but also to those mixing Islamic and/or traditional legal systems with those derived from common and/or civil law traditions.

A theory of international courts that assumes member states can ignore international agreements and adverse rulings, and that the court does not have informational advantages.

This collection offers a powerful and coherent study of the transformation of the multinational enterprise as both an object and subject of law within and beyond States.

This book analyzes the benefits of and legal concerns in connection with the delegated legislation of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone as a prime example of experimental legislation in Chinese law.

An examination of important aspects of the company laws of seven European countries.

This book explores current developments in transnational commercial and consumer law.

This book focuses on enhanced educator awareness of issues involving the status of the right to education as guaranteed by various legal systems throughout the world, in light of the growing interest in comparative and international studies, including the law.

As an emerging Continent, with a rich past, dynamic present and promising future, Africa has an important role to play in the develop- ment of international organization.

This exploration of penal censure is inspired by the 40th anniversary of the publication of Andreas von Hirsch's Doing Justice, which opened up a fresh set of issues in theorisation about punishment that eventually led von Hirsch to ground his proposed model of desert-based sentencing on the notion of penal censure.

This volume summarizes the achievements on rule of law in China for the ten years from 2002 to 2012, particularly focusing on areas such as judicial review, anti-monopoly, reform of government agencies, the circulation of rural Land contracted management rights, and the protection of children's rights.

What are the connections between conceptions of rights found in English law and those found in bills of rights around the World?

Vaccine Law and Policy is the first book on vaccine law and policy written specifically for the general public or an educated lay audience without legal background.

Critically examines moral-promissory, economic and socio-legal perspectives on contract law, arguing that it should be formal and minimalistic by design.

This yearbook focuses on law and its interdisciplinarity in India.

This study analyzes how elected leaders and high courts in Argentina and Brazil interact over economic governance.

This book draws on concrete cases of collaboration between anthropologists and legal practitioners to critically assess the use of anthropological expertise in a variety of legal contexts from the point of view of the anthropologist as well as of the decision-maker or legal practitioner.

Each of the jurisdictions within the United Kingdom is constantly refining the operational characteristics of its planning system and while there are some common practices, there are also substantive divergences.

This book provides a comparative study of contract law, examining the interaction of common law and civil law approaches to contract law.

Should offence to religions be punishable by law, or does freedom of expression extend even to blasphemy?

This book comprehensively describes the status quo of artificial intelligence technology applications in the judicial field in China.

This book critically analyses how arbitration cases, institutional rules and emerging codes of conduct in the international arbitration sector?

The book covers a range of topics including the historical evolution and present landscape of Brazilian environmental law; fundamental principles of environmental law; environmental constitutionalism in Brazil; the legal framework governing environmental assets; animal protection and rights; environmental federalism; national environmental policy; administrative tools for environmental regulation; civil and criminal environmental liability; judicial interpretations of environmental law; specially protected areas; climate change legislation and litigation; and water resource management.

This book asserts that the Pacific Islands continue to struggle with the colonial legacy of plural legal systems, comprising laws and legal institutions from both the common law and the customary legal system.

This book considers how access to justice is affected by restrictions to legal aid budgets and increasingly prescriptive service guidelines.

Human trafficking is a multi-faceted crime.

The law of trade secrets is one of the most important and fastest developing areas of intellectual property, but is by far the least harmonised internationally.

This volume offers different perspectives on judicial practice in the European and American contexts, both arguably characterized in the last decades by the emergence of novel normative and even policy arguments by judges.

Comparative study has emerged as the new frontier of constitutional law scholarship as well as an important aspect of constitutional adjudication.

This book proposes a regulatory system for ensuring that AI makes fair decisions.

This book provides a unique comparative and global analysis of the regulation of disclosure in financial (securities) markets.

Most modern democracies punish hate speech.

The contributions to this volume focus on a diverse array of topics in international law, with scholarly interventions from experts in the field, both in academia and the judiciary, as well as case commentary on a recent decision of the International Court of Justice (Chagos Decision).

1t gives me great pleasure as Chairman of the Section on Business Law to write a foreword to this, the second volume in a series of books on Maritime Law.

Psychological data have now become central in many areas of legal practice including criminal, health care, and child custody domains.

Provides an unrivalled understanding of major regulatory reforms that will profoundly affect the future of finance.