Systems of law

This book examines the contemporary production of economic value in today's financial economies.

The theory and praxis of biblical law in the historical and contemporary landscape of American law and culture is contentious and controversial.

Armed non-state actors (ANSAs) often have economic aims that international law needs to respond to.

This collection of essays on the rule of law focuses on the traditional question whether the rule of law is necessarily the rule of moral principles, the question of the legitimacy of law.

Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia.

Ein Streifzug durch 1400 Jahre IslamMehr als eine Milliarde Menschen leben heute in Rechtssystemen, die sich auf die Scharia berufen.

The chapters collected in this book explore the place and role of judge-made private law in an emerging European polity.

When Justinian became sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire in A.

Nineteenth-century Istanbul was an intellectual hub of rich discussions about Islam, in which leading reformists had a significant role.

This book is the result of research conducted in Polish post-criminal isolation units related to the accessibility of religious practices and services for people incarcerated there.

Small claims court is a place where some look to level the playing field against individuals, businesses, or partnerships that have wronged them in the past.

This text combines discrete areas of constitutional and administrative law to present Australian public law as a single, integrated body.

This book explores the relationship between oil pollution laws and environmental justice by comparing and contrasting the United States and Nigeria.

This book argues that South Africa is haunted by the spectre of reparation.

Die Bekämpfung von Streuschäden ist von großer wirtschaftlicher Bedeutung.

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

This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years of using DNA to free innocent prisoners and identifies lingering challenges.

This edited volume provides critical reflections on the interplay between politics and law in an increasingly transnationalized global political economy.

Das Geheimnis schnellen Lernens und Verstehens ist, Zusammenhänge zu erkennen und diese auf praktische Gegebenheiten umzusetzen.

One of the most basic questions for any legal system is that of methodology: how one interprets, analyzes, weighs, and applies a mass of often competing legal rules, precedents, practices, customs, and traditions to reach final determinations and practical guidance about the correct legal-prescribed course of action in any given situation.

This thesis provides a new approach to the Ethiopian Land Law debate.

Das Lehrbuch bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der Allgemeinen Lehren des Strafrechts.

Explores the possibilities of constitutionalism from diverse theoretical and comparative perspectives, particularly those from outside liberal and Anglo-European paradigms.

This book is intended to promote discussion and understanding of customary law and to explore its continued relevance in sub-Saharan Africa.

During the last ten years the Islamic banking sector has grown rapidly, at an international level, as well as in individual jurisdictions including the UK.

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.

The law of torts recognises many defences to liability.

This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine the ongoing conflict in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province, which has killed thousands and displaced a million people since 2017.

In Religious Liberty in Western and Islamic Law: Toward a World Legal Tradition, Kristine Kalanges argues that differences between Western and Islamic legal formulations of religious freedom are attributable, in substantial part, to variations in their respective religious and intellectual histories.

Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates the different trajectories they could follow in a revolutionary setting.

Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice defines "e;international law"e; to include not only "e;custom"e; and "e;convention"e; between States but also "e;the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations"e; within their municipal legal systems.

Comparing four key branches of private law in China and Taiwan, this collaborative and novel book demystifies the ''China puzzle''.

The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern stateCoping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking parallels in their relationship with the modern state.

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

Reading Max Weber's Sociology of Law serves both as an introduction and as a distillation of more than thirty years of reading and reflection on Weber's scholarship.

TheRisale-i Nur Collection is full of general principles, not only related to the Islamic Jurisprudence but also to all the fields of Islam or Islamic life and Islamic branches of knowledge.

This book explores the fascinating and complex histories of Islam and China.