Systems of law

Explores how the first treaty-based UN international tribunal''s judges innovatively applied the law to perpetrators of international crimes in one of the worst conflicts in recent history.

In both the West and throughout the Muslim world, Islamic family law is a highly and hotly debated topic.

This book draws attention to emerging issues around the rights of minorities, marginalized groups, and persons in Africa.

Das Werk umfasst über 700 Fragen und Antworten sowie drei Übungsfälle auf Examensniveau zum BGB AT.

Should an employee be allowed to wear a religious symbol at work?

This book explores the problems associated with regulating the funding of political parties and election campaigns in a timely assessment of a topic of great political controversy.

This book offers a new theoretical perspective on the thought of the great fifteenth-century Egyptian polymath, Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d.

Drawing on both religious and secular sources, this challenging book argues that divinely ordained law is frequently misinterpreted by Muslim authorities at the expense of certain groups, including women.

Discusses fundamental anthropological issues with Aboriginal Australians, focusing on kinds of customary rights that are ''held'' in Aboriginal ''countries''.

A comprehensive account of legal professional privilege as it applies to corporations covering four major common law jurisdictions: the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States.

This book analyses the current debates within food system governance, covering different aspects of food systems (from production to consumption) as well as different fields of law (from human rights law to environmental law).

What happened to the culture of common law and English barristers in the long eighteenth century?

Setting forth the building blocks of banking bailout law, this book reconstructs a regulatory framework that might better serve countries during future crisis situations.

Die vom Institut für Kirchenrecht und rheinische Kirchenrechtsgeschichte an der Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln betreute Sammlung "Entscheidungen in Kirchensachen seit 1946" bietet die Judikatur staatlicher Gerichte zum allgemeinen Religionsrecht und zum Verhältnis von Kirche und Staat.

Novelist Raymond Chandler once said, "e;The Law isn't justice.

Written from an ethnographic perspective, this book investigates the socio-legal aspects of Islamic jurisprudence in Gaza-Palestine.

This book focuses on the aspects of contracting contracts, basically related to road construction and management contracts.

Contempt of court has been aptly described as the Proteus of the legal world, assuming an almost infinite diversity of forms.

Challenging the usual introductions to the study of law, A Critical Introduction to Law argues that law is inherently political and reflects the interests of the few even while presenting itself as neutral.

In the days of the Roman Empire, the emperor was considered not only the ruler of the state, but also its supreme legal authority, fulfilling the multiple roles of supreme court, legislator, and administrator.

On a planet where urbanization is rapidly expanding, nowhere is the growth more pronounced than in cities of the global South, and in particular, Africa.

Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law is an exposition and development of Deleuze & Guattari's legal theory.

Der Kommentar spricht alle mit der Gewerbeausführung und Gewerbeaufsicht des Pfandleihgewerbes verbundenen Rechtsfragen an.

This book discusses the nature and theories which govern systems of Islamic finance including its most distinctive features and its relationship with conventional financial institutions.

For centuries, courts across the common law world have developed systems of law by building bodies of judicial decisions.

As a social process that places great stock in its stability and predictability, law does not deal easily or well with change.

This 2006 book explains the meaning, significance and practical effect of the concept of ''possession'' in contemporary land law.

When Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Code of Jewish Law) reached Lunel, France, a group of scholars composed twenty-four objections to his positions.

A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition.

Based on over a decade of research, this book examines the social harms of Australian prescription and non-prescription medicine regulation and how these ultimately stem from neoliberalism and its reinforcement of state and corporate power.

Drawing on engaging case studies, Essays in the History of Canadian Law brings the law to life.

Los estudios reunidos en este volumen, que comprenden todas las divisiones sistematicas del Derecho civil ademas del Derecho interregional, se realizaron con ocasion de la conmemoracion del cincuentenario (2010) de la Compilacion del Derecho civil de Cataluna (1960) y proponen tanto un analisis critico de la actividad legislativa hasta ahora llevada a cabo como una prospeccion de la labor pendiente en orden a la codificacion de la materia civil.

Some describe civil litigation as little more than a drag on the economy; Others hail it as the solution to most of the country's problems.

Das Repetitorium vermittelt einen Überblick über das Schweizerische öffentliche Prozessrecht, das insbesondere in der BV, der EMRK, dem BGG, dem VGG sowie dem VwVG geregelt ist.

Advanced Mathematical Analysis and its Applications presents state-of-the-art developments in mathematical analysis through new and original contributions and surveys, with a particular emphasis on applications in engineering and mathematical sciences.

This book presents an analysis of climate change and agricultural laws in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa in order to determine whether they adequately addressed the concept of agricultural adaptation.

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

Die öffentliche Hand kann keine Bauleistung vergeben, ohne dass dafür die Regelungen des Vergaberechts eingehalten werden müssen.

In Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: A Fresh Interpretation, Mohammad Kamali considers problems associated with and proposals for reform of the hudud punishments prescribed by Islamic criminal law, and other topics related to crime and punishment in Shariah.

This book shows six different realities of same-sex families.

The Westminster parliament is a highly visible political institution, and one of its core functions is approving new laws.