Comparative law

Exploring the advantages and disadvantages of codifying contract law, this book considers the question from the perspectives of both civil and common law systems, referring in detail to issues of international and consumer law.

The book provides in-depth analysis of the new perspectives on codifications, and of the related reforms, that give recognition to new ideas, new needs, and new techniques.

This book explains the existence, meaning and application of the rules governing the assignment of contractual rights.

This book provides an authoritative account of the evolution and application of private international law principles in India in civil commercial and family matters.

Provides a comprehensive, readable overview of how criminal justice actually works in the United States, and what makes US procedures distinctive and important.

This book comprehensively discusses the effects of digital technology on the way work is disseminated and the resulting challenges concerning the fair use of copyright.

This book provides valuable insights into various contemporary issues in public and private maritime law, including interdisciplinary aspects.

The book analyses state of play regarding regional level of government in the countries of South East Europe, particularly countries succeeding former Yugoslavia (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and North Macedonia) using the research methods from the fields of Law, Public Administration and Political Science.

This book explores the coming into being in European Union (EU) law of the fundamental right to personal data protection.

This book offers a brand new point of view on immigration detention, pursuing a multidisciplinary approach and presenting new reflections by internationally respected experts from academic and institutional backgrounds.

As one of the 'learned' professions requiring advanced learning and high principles, law enjoys a special standing in society.

Military justice is changing rapidly due to both domestic and international influences.

This book addresses historical issues of colonialism and race, which influenced the formation of multicultural society in Mauritius.

This book, first published in 2007, focuses on the law involved with national security and defense.

This book examines the institutional relationship between religions, political regimes, and human rights.

This book examines how demographic changes, including low birth rates, continuing immigration and population ageing, are transforming ideas about citizenship and belonging.

This book aims to inspire a new generation of lawyers by showcasing real-life case studies of how legal professionals have built successful and rewarding careers in the field of sustainability.

Written by leading experts in the field, this collection offers a critical and comparative analysis of the existing case law on international investment law.

This book presents an international comparison of legal responses to the issue of vacant housing in Japan, the USA, France and Germany.

This book uses the early twentieth century surveillance reports of urban vice reformers in New York, Chicago, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as well as the US vice report for the League of Nations' Special Body on Trafficking in Women and Children (from 1927) and French police memoirs, treatises, and histories of vice enforcement in late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Paris to highlight the way in which American reliance on undercover tactics drove American vice enforcement policy, leading to a clash with French vice enforcement policy before the League of Nations.

This book in its entirety as well as in each of its parts is an outline of the problems under discussion.

Evaluates the successes and failures of the 1996 South African Constitution following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment.

This book provides a comparative analysis of Chinese property law as depicted in the newly enacted Chinese Civil Code.

Is academic freedom threatened?

This book examines the Court of Final Appeal''s structure, jurisprudence and politics and the contribution of its Chief Justice under Chinese sovereignty.

Well-chosen negative legal proof rules can be useful procedural safeguards.

This book examines trade and trafficking in endangered animal species and how the trade increasingly puts large numbers of nonhuman species at risk.

Provides the first systematic analysis of new Asian regionalism as a paradigm shift in international economic law.

In the world of law enforcement art and antiquity crime has in the past usually assumed a place of low interest and priority.

This book is devoted to the studyof the interplaybetween religious rules and State law.

Examines the role of emotions in criminal behaviour, and their importance to the attribution of moral and criminal responsibility.

Religion is a prominent legal force despite the premise constructed and promoted by Western constitutionalism that it must be separated from the State in democracies.

This bookprovides an unparalleled comparative analysis of two "e;hot topics"e; inthe field of antitrust and unfair competition laws with regard to a number ofkey countries.

This book offers a thorough analysis of the Amicus Curiae phenomenon, emphasizing its critical role in modern legal systems.

How we understand what procedure is due as a fundamental or constitutional right can have a critical impact on designing a civil procedure.

This book explores how non-governmental organizations (NGOs), with their sphere of influence within the State and beyond, enrich the international community by working on critical areas affecting people's lives and expectations, to facilitate a more humanising international law.

Mainstream historians in recent decades have often treated formal categories and rules as something to be 'used' by individuals, as one might use a stick or stone, and the gains of an earlier legal history are often needlessly set aside.

This book addresses the interactions between the domestic courts and the international investment arbitral tribunals, one of the most pressing issues confronting both domestic legal systems and the international legal system.

Increasingly, the modern neo-liberal world marginalises any notion of religion or spirituality, leaving little or no room for the sacred in the public sphere.

This book studies the international investment law regime in Africa and provides a comprehensive analysis of the current treaty practices in Africa from global, regional and domestic perspectives.

One of the most unfortunate facts about the relationship of the United States with Latin America is that only in recent years has there been any appreciable amount of intellectual interchange with reference to law.

Describes the rules applicable on the publication of a prospectus for an offer of securities.