Comparative law

This book presents an in-depth exploration of the intricate negotiations of married Muslim women within Cape Town's Muslim communities, navigating the complexities of legal pluralism governed by Muslim Personal Law (MPL).

This book addresses the European Court of Human Rights' fairness standards in criminal appeal, filling a gap in this less researched area of studies.

A comparative perspective of role played by three generations of European Constitutional Courts in the process of transition to democracy.

This book offers unique insights into Islamic law, considering its theoretical perspectives alongside its practical application in daily Muslim life.

This book includes guiding cases of the Supreme People's Court, cases deliberated at the Adjudication Committee of the Supreme People's Court, and cases discussed at the Joint Meetings of Presiding Judges from various tribunals.

Rarely do acts of civil disobedience come in such grand fashion as Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement.

Richard Frimpong Oppong argues that radical reforms to community and national laws are needed to ensure economic integration in Africa.

This book addresses the question of how competition authorities assess mergers in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector so as to promote competition in innovation.

This book addresses the increasing demand for a logical understanding of how framework agreement should be used and implemented.

This book explores the relationship between market entry analysis in competition law and the study of the determinants of aggregate investment.

A complete picture and thorough analysis of the international norms and bodies dealing with the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

This book provides a systematic elaboration of Chinese Private International Law, reveals the general techniques concerning conflict of laws in China, explains the detailed Chinese conflict rules for different areas of law, and demonstrates how international civil litigation is pursued in China.

The subject of this book is human rights law, focusing on historic achievement of a common standard viewed from a perspective of Pengchun Chang's contributions to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

Commonwealth Caribbean Tort Law is well established as the leading text on tort law in the Caribbean jurisdictions, now updated in its sixth edition.

Volume two of a comparative study of the concepts that underpin different domestic systems of criminal law and justice.

This edited book focuses on the most controversial aspects of assistance benefits as mandated by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 - and the challenges that have merged since the approval, in 1993, of the Federal Act 8.

The challenges that labour law currently faces are well known.

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.

This volume explores how national and international human rights courts interpret and apply human dignity.

This book employs a comparative approach to comprehensively discuss hosting ISPs' (Internet Service Providers') responsibilities for copyright infringement in the US, EU and China.

Does a justice system have a welfare function?

This book analyzes regulatory models established in the field of online music distribution, and examines their consistency with the overarching objectives of copyright law.

First comparative study of major special needs financial planning mechanisms, namely guardianship, enduring/lasting powers of attorney, and special needs trusts.

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In legal decisions and commentary, freedom of assembly is widely cherished as a precious human right and as indispensable for the preservation of democratic governance.

By examining the reasons behind the preventive criminalization of Chinese criminal law, this book argues that the shift of criminal law generates popular expectations of legislative participation, and meets punitive demands of the public, but the expansion of criminal law lacks effective constraints, which will keep restricting people's freedom in the future.

A unique analysis which combines current scholarship in law and economics with the expertise of local corporate governance specialists.

The peace, order and good government (POGG) clause is found in the constitutions of almost all Commonwealth countries.

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Marginalized Communities and Access to Justice is a comparative study, by leading researchers in the field of law and justice, of the imperatives and constraints of access to justice among a number of marginalized communities.

This book analyses the doctrinal structure and content of secondary liability rules that hold internet service providers liable for the conduct of others, including the safe harbours (or immunities) of which they may take advantage, and the range of remedies that can be secured against such providers.

This book aims to identify the sociological reasons that resulted in the perceived lack of authority of precedents in civil law systems, starting from the premise that common law systems rely on precedents, while civil law systems do not.

This volume explores from a legal perspective, how blockchain works.

In this book, the protection of personal data is compared for eight EU member states,namely France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Romania, Italy, Sweden andthe Netherlands.

Kampagnen sind in der Volksrepublik China ein etabliertes Mittel zur Durchsetzung von politischen und rechtlichen Zielen.

This book employs an innovative approach to explore the topic of flexicurity and related changes in the working world, the importance of which for the overall economic and social development is gradually being recognised.

In social science terms, the `Arctic' is a relative, not an absolute concept, relating to several dimensions, such as constitutional and geographic status, remoteness, socioeconomic status, and demographic/anthropological factors.

This book introduces and develops the paradigm of the organisational contract in European contract law.

Jeffrey Goldsworthy is a renowned constitutional scholar and legal theorist whose work on the powers of Parliament and the interpretation of constitutional and statute laws has helped shape debates on these topics across the English-speaking world.

This book provides a critique of current international law-making and draws on a set of principles from Persian philosophers to present an alternative to influence the development of international law-making procedure.

This book focuses on the social and environmental issues being addressed by agricultural law within the current globalised system.