Systems of law

The first textbook to address land law as it relates to the Commonwealth Caribbean, it encompasses all areas covered in an undergraduate course on the law of real property in the Caribbean.

Conflicts caused by competing concepts of property are the subject of this book that reshapes study of the relationship between law and society in Australasia and North America.

In this book, the author attempts to integrate previous work on Foucault with feminist theory.

Putting technology front and centre in our thinking about law, this book introduces Law 3.

Putting technology front and centre in our thinking about law, this book introduces Law 3.

In the wake of Brexit and Trump, the debate surrounding post-truth fills the newspapers and is at the center of the public debate.

Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law.

Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law.

Reconciliation, Transitional and Indigenous Justice presents fifteen reflections upon justice twenty years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa introduced a new paradigm for political reconciliation in settler and post-colonial societies.

Reconciliation, Transitional and Indigenous Justice presents fifteen reflections upon justice twenty years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa introduced a new paradigm for political reconciliation in settler and post-colonial societies.

African legal realities reflect an intertwining of transnational, regional, and local normative frameworks, institutions, and practices that challenge the idea of the sovereign territorial state.

African legal realities reflect an intertwining of transnational, regional, and local normative frameworks, institutions, and practices that challenge the idea of the sovereign territorial state.

This volume examines the design and impact of courts in African federal systems from a comparative perspective.

This volume examines the design and impact of courts in African federal systems from a comparative perspective.

Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction: Freud's Psychic Apparatus demonstrates the relevance of deconstructive thinking for the clinical practice of psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction: Freud's Psychic Apparatus demonstrates the relevance of deconstructive thinking for the clinical practice of psychoanalysis.

This book critically assesses categorical divisions between indigenous individual and collective rights regimes embedded in the foundations of international human rights law.

This book critically assesses categorical divisions between indigenous individual and collective rights regimes embedded in the foundations of international human rights law.

There has been surprisingly little writing about the condition of contemporary tribal government.

There has been surprisingly little writing about the condition of contemporary tribal government.

Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of ancient Athens.

The relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Western World is fraught with challenges and tensions.

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.

The idea of maslaha has a rich history in classical legal thought and literature.

Passed into law over a decade before the Revolution, the Family Protection Law quickly drew the ire of the conservative clergy and the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979.

The role of women in politics in the Gulf is a much-debated and often little-understood subject in the West.

The meanings and contexts of Shari'a are the subject of both curiosity and misunderstanding by non-Muslims.

As a result of the uprisings that spread across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and 2011, the issue of state public violence against both men and women dominated the headlines.

Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature.

According to many Islamic jurists, the world is divided between dar al-Islam (the abode of Islam) and dar al-harb (the abode of war).

During the uprisings of late 2010 and 2011 which took place across the Middle East and North Africa, women made up an important part of the crowds protesting.

According to many Islamic jurists, the world is divided between dar al-Islam (the abode of Islam) and dar al-harb (the abode of war).

The idea of maslaha has a rich history in classical legal thought and literature.

Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of ancient Athens.

The meanings and contexts of Shari'a are the subject of both curiosity and misunderstanding by non-Muslims.

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

Islamic commercial and financial practice has not experienced the trial-and-error style of development that has characterised the development of the common law in the English-speaking world.

What are the views, principles and regulations of the Islamic tradition concerning refugee status?

How Islam treats women is one of the most hotly contested questions of our times.

Taking an inter-disciplinary approach which straddles law, anthropology sociology and women's studies, Mir-Hosseini shows how women can turn even the most patriarchal elements of Islamic law to their advantage and achieve their personal marital aims.

A sea change has taken place in Islamic legal studies.

Islamic law (the Shari'a) and its application is a central issue in contemporary Islamic politics and culture.

This timely book, newly revised for this edition, addresses the question of human rights in the international context, focusing in particular on the interaction between human rights as a value and norm in international relations and Islam as a constituent of political culture in particular societies.

This edited collection brings together recent scholarship on the understanding of Roman private law.

Carl Schmitt ranks among the most original and controversial political thinkers of the twentieth century.

A Brookings Institution Press and American Enterprise Institute publicationAre liability "e;crises"e; an inevitable part of the modern industrial landscape?

The world's governing structures are higgledy-piggledy: disorderly, heads and tails in any or every direction.

How societies can preserve democracy with a human-directed social contractThe recent rise of populist movements, especially in Western democracies, has prompted considerable thoughtful analysis.

Toward an Islamic Reformation is an ambitious attempt to modernize Islamic law, calling for reform of the historical formulations of Islamic law, commonly known as Shari'a that is perceived by many Muslims to be part of the Islamic faith.