Systems of law

The Routledge Handbook of Public Aviation Law is the first book to incorporate a comprehensive analysis of Public Aviation Law - principally international, but also domestic law in a comparative context - in a single volume.

Kramer lucidly addresses some of the principal questions in this vital area of philosophical enquiry.

Within the global phenomenon of the (re)emergence of religion into issues of public debate, one of the most salient issues confronting contemporary Muslim societies is how to relate the legal and political heritage that developed in pre-modern Islamic polities to the political order of the modern states in which Muslims now live.

Explores the role of international legal scholars in the construction of legal knowledge, looking at examples from the cyberwar debate.

Hans Kelsen and Max Weber are conventionally understood as the original proponents of two distinct and opposed processes of concept formation generating two separate and contrasting theoretical frameworks for the study of law.

Product Liability is a recognised authority in the field and covers the product liability laws through which manufacturers, retailers, and others may be held liable to compensate persons who are injured, or who incur financial loss, when the products which they manufacture or sell are defective or not fit for their purpose.

In this classic study, Alan Brudner investigates the basic structure of the common law of transactions.

The book The Law of Securitisations: From Crises to Techno-sustainability provides a full and detailed account of the EU legislation in the area of structured finance with the new legal rules dissected and discussed in their full extent.

Thisbook deals with the contractual platform for arbitration and the application ofcontractual norms to the parties' dispute.

When an individual is accused of a crime he is provided, at least in theory, with numerous constitutional rights throughout the legal process.

Although relatively new as a distinct field of study, transitional justice has become rapidly established as a vital field of enquiry.

In this book, an international team of scholars analyse the common law through three of its classic themes: rules, reasoning and constitutionalism.

This book presents the results of the largest survey of public attitudes towards the civil justice system ever conducted by either an independent party or government agency.

Examining the development and design of regulatory structures in the online environment, The Regulation of Cyberspace considers current practices and suggests a regulatory model that acknowledges its complexity and how it can be used by regulators to provide a more comprehensive regulatory structure for cyberspace.

Popular sovereignty - the doctrine that the public powers of state originate in a concessive grant of power from "e;the people"e; - is the cardinal doctrine of modern constitutional theory, placing full constitutional authority in the people at large, rather than in the hands of judges, kings, or a political elite.

Against a background of calls to prioritise the improvement of financial inclusion in Africa, this book provides an analysis of current financial inclusion measures in Southern Africa.

Rather than emphasising boundaries and territories by examining the integration and acculturation of the immigrant or the refugee, this book offers insights into the ideas and practices of individuals settling into new societies and cultures.

This book considers a central issue of our time: the relationship between the macroeconomic objectives of political parties in democratic countries and the legal framework of market economies.

Das Lehrbuch behandelt die fur Studium und Examen bedeutsamen Verbrechen und Vergehen aus dem Bereich der Nichtvermogensdelikte, wobei stets auch die Bezuge zum Allgemeinen Teil aufgezeigt werden.

This book focuses on the continued impact of British colonial legacy on the rule of law in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

The Hayei Adam, an abridged code of Jewish law, was written by Rabbi Avraham Danzig (1748-1820) and was first published in 1810.

Dieses Buch vermittelt die Grundlagen des Wirtschaftsprivatrechts klar strukturiert, kompakt, praxisbezogen und fallorientiert.

Sharia-compliance is the raison d'etre of Islamic banks.

This book is the first book to comprehensively and deeply explain and construct the legal system of Chinese art auctions.

Imperial and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE offers a radical new history of Roman citizenship in the long century before Caracalla's universal grant of citizenship in 212 CE.

This pioneering study is a fascinating overview of how Islamic law has evolved and the thinking behind individual rulings.

Most young people considering studying law, or pursuing a legal career, have very little idea of what learning law involves and how universities teach law to their students.

This book tracks the phenomenon of international corporate personhood (ICP) in international law and explores many legal issues raised in its wake.

Law is supposed to encourage innovation, morality, and conformity with societal expectations, yet it may provides perverse incentives causing individuals, or even the State, to act in discordant, inefficient, and even immoral ways.

This collection considers the relationship between religion, state, and market.

Can Islamic finance save the global system?

Das Schweizerische Jahrbuch für Kirchenrecht / Annuaire suisse de droit ecclésial befasst sich mit der ganzen Breite des Kirchenrechts in der Schweiz, angefangen mit dem Recht der evangelisch-reformierten Kirchen sowie der römisch-katholischen Kirche und ihrer Kantonalkirchen, sodann dem Religionsrecht des Bundes und der Kantone.

Aus der Vorauflage:Der Band behandelt das deutsche Strafverfahrensrecht, soweit es Gegenstand von Studium und erster juristischer Prüfung ist.

This book focuses on a border police collaboration project in the Baltic Sea area aiming at fighting cross-border crimes.

International Documents on Environmental Liability brings together 30 official full-text documents in the field of international environmental liability into an easily accessible, practical handbook; details the work of the International Law Commission on this topic; and provides the latest versions of international liability conventions and their statuses - including the latest on: (1) 2003 UNECE Kyiv Liability Protocol; (2) 2004 EC Directive on Environmental Liability; (3) 2005 Antartica Liability Annex.

In this fifth edition of his bestselling classic, Jay Feinman provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the American legal system.

There is something visceral about ownership.

Explaining the curious legal doctrine of "e;coverture,"e; William Blackstone famously declared that "e;by marriage, husband and wife are one person at law.