Systems of law

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This book studies ideological divisions within Chinese legal academia and their relationship to arguments about the rule of law.

This book examines Islam and women's everyday life, focusing in particular on the highly controversial issue of polygamy.

This book examines the intersection between contemporary International Commercial Arbitration and Shari?

This volume in the landmark Oxford History of the Laws of England series, spans three centuries that encompassed the tumultuous years of the Norman conquest, and during which the common law as we know it today began to emerge.

Enchantment and Creed in the Hymns of Ambrose of Milan offers the first critical overview of the hymns of Ambrose of Milan in the context of fourth-century doctrinal song and Ambrose's own catechetical preaching.

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent's trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system.

This volume, originally published in 1925, outlines the historical development of the Muslim law of inheritance in pre-Islamic Law.

The first work of analytical legal theory exploring law''s relations to environment, security, and technology as preconditions of legal order.

On British Islam examines the history and everyday workings of Islamic institutions in Britain, with a focus on shari?

Images of Justice resonates with voices of the North and comes alive through interviews with many of those involved in the cases - defendants, judges, and prosecutors.

An accessible overview of the religious and social thought of the world''s largest Muslim majority nation.

Scientific research is fundamental to addressing issues of great importance to the development of human knowledge.

The Second Formation of Islamic Law offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands.

The EEA Agreement extends the four freedoms (persons, goods, services and capital) to Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

In the early second century CE, two Jewish women, Babatha and Salome Komaise, lived in the village of Maoza on the southern coast of the Dead Sea.

The purpose of this book is to understand the rise, future and implications of two important new kinds of "e;integrity warriors"e; - official anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) and anti-corruption NGOs - and to locate them in a wider context and history of anti-corruption activity.

This book investigates how some corporations have avoided tax liability with intellectual property holding companies, and how different constituencies are working to stop them.

This book analyses how damage resulting from offshore-related incidents is compensated in European waters, whilst providing models to improve such compensation.

This book addresses the crisis of the juridical-political foundation within contemporary democracies.

How Roman law has influenced European legal and political thought from antiquity to the present day.

An expert analysis of the relevant law and jurisprudence in mass litigation, this edited work examines the diverse and complex transnational considerations and issues of collective redress.

In the wake of the protests that spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and early 2011, Islamist movements of varying political persuasions have risen to prominence.

Due to the absence of due process and other procedural guarantees generally offered by judicial enforcement, informal debt collection practices (IDCPs) can become abusive, harming both consumers and the economy by threatening consumers' physical, psychological, and economic wellbeing; exposing lawabiding debt collectors to unfair competition; undermining the financial system; and negatively impacting social peace by resorting to criminal activity.

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Surveillance of citizens is a clear manifestation of government power.

This book discusses court-oriented legal reforms across Asia with a focus on the creation of 'new courts' over the last 20 years.

In this book, a judge at the Shari''a Court of Jerusalem explains the religious law of Muslim minorities.

Americans have been forced from their homes.

En esta obra, se analiza cómo el proceso de nulidad del matrimonio tiene como ratio y telos la verdad del vínculo conyugal y su indisolubilidad.

The involvement of the EU in regulating private conduct and relationships between individuals is increasing.

This collection of essays explores the evolution of anti-discrimination law in European civil law jurisdictions.

The globalisation of research has resulted in the increased location of research involving humans in developing countries.

This book focuses on Islamic constitutionalism, and in particular on the relation between religion and the protection of individual liberties potentially clashing with shari?

This book charts the difficulties encountered by vulnerable consumers in their access to justice, through the contributions of prominent authors (academic, practitioners and consultants) in the field of consumer law and access to justice.

Crypto-Finance, Law and Regulation investigates whether crypto-finance will cause a paradigm shift in regulation from a centralised model to a model based on distributed consensus.

The growth of data-collecting goods and services, such as ehealth and mhealth apps, smart watches, mobile fitness and dieting apps, electronic skin and ingestible tech, combined with recent technological developments such as increased capacity of data storage, artificial intelligence and smart algorithms, has spawned a big data revolution that has reshaped how we understand and approach health data.

The most important creation of the Romans was their law.

Spanning two centuries and five Nordic countries, this book questions the view that political lawyers are required for the development of a liberal political regime.

Research on law's relationship with time has flourished over the past decade.

This book illuminates how law and politics interact in the judicial doctrines and explores how democracy sustains and is sustained by the exercise of judicial power.

This book considers the inherent complexities of private law; relevant to property, tort, contract, legal method and legal theory.

Since the Second World War, the international community has sought to prevent the repetition of destructive far-right forces by establishing institutions such as the United Nations and by adopting documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Leading experts in EU constitutional law examine the foundational importance of citizenship rights in delimiting the scope of EU law.

There has been a deliberative, but as yet unsuccessful, attempt by scholars and policy makers to articulate a more meaningful idea of Europe, which would enhance the legitimacy of the European Union and provide the basis for a European identity.