Legal systems: general

Justice apps - mobile and web-based programmes that can assist individuals with legal tasks - are being produced, improved, and accessed at an unprecedented rate.

Contemporary legal reasoning has more in common with fictional discourse than we tend to realize.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the problem of mistakes of fact in connection with the law of state responsibility - mistakes which have significant implications for global governance and legal certainty that have yet to be fully mapped out in contemporary international law.

This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence.

This book provides an in depth-examination of the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the implications of that principle for the suppression of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes on the domestic level.

This volume focuses on several theoretical topics in world politics and analyzes prominent cases of global conflicts and their potential peaceful resolution.

Mediation and Dispute Resolution addresses contemporary challenges and new developments in mediation.

For several years legal professions across the world have, to varying degrees, been undergoing dramatic changes as a result of a range of forces such as globalization, diversification and changes in regulation.

The EU antitrust enforcement system for several decades has been one of the most mature antitrust enforcement systems in the world.

Inspired by comparative law scholar Patrick Glenn''s work, an international group of legal scholars explores the state of the discipline.

With expert evidence used more and more often in criminal jury cases, evaluation of its admissibility and presentation is being increasingly thrust into the spotlight.

This book explores the language of judges.

Contentious Costs is a book that no busy practitioner can afford to ignore.

While the right to have one's day in court is a cherished feature of the American democratic system, alarms that the United States is hopelessly litigious and awash in frivolous claims have become so commonplace that they are now a fixture in the popular imagination.

A book for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on evidence and proof, and on legal method.

Civil Procedure Rules at 20 is a collection of presentations and papers to mark the 20th anniversary of the CPR coming into force, many of which were delivered orally at the CPR at 20 Conference at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, at Mansfield College, Oxford, in 2019.

Two leading scholars of the Supreme Court explain and predict its decision making.

This essential volume for all aspiring barristers offers guidance, insights and advice from new barristers from a diverse range of backgrounds and practice areas, shedding light on what life is really like for barristers at the independent Bar.

According to conventional wisdom in American legal culture, the 1870s to 1920s was the age of legal formalism, when judges believed that the law was autonomous and logically ordered, and that they mechanically deduced right answers in cases.

This book critically analyses the availability of environmental counterclaims in investment arbitration presented by the respondent host state against the claimant investor.

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration.

A revisionary account of the South African Constitutional Court, its working method and the neglected political underpinnings of its success.

If you're involved in drafting or amending legislation in the Commonwealth or beyond, you need a guide that will help you with both the traditional and modern techniques of drafting good quality statutory law.

"Las Lecciones mexicanas de Derecho Procesal, impartidas por el profesor Michele Taruffo en México (2002 y 2009), están plagadas, sin duda alguna, de sugerencias, de caminos simplemente apuntados, de vías de profundización, en los que se resalta contundentemente la importancia de la justicia como guía para resolver controversias, rechazando con ello una concepción del proceso meramente formal.

A must-read for students involved in mooting, this new edition of Jeffrey Hill's textbook has been fully updated and revised, and provides students with clear and compelling advice on every aspect of mooting.

Das auf ein Standardwerk der Juristenausbildung von Hermann Förschler zurückgehende Lehrbuch verschafft einen fundierten Überblick über den Gang eines Zivilprozesses.

This book draws on the author's professional experience and published works in the areas of leadership, philosophy, psychology and management (amongst others) to discuss the 'softer' qualities of being a good lawyer - qualities which are not taught or widely documented, such as humility, confidence, personal relationships and our dreams and vision.

While legal scholars, psychologists, and political scientists commonly voice their skepticism over the influence oral arguments have on the Court's voting pattern, this book offers a contrarian position focused on close scrutiny of the justices' communication within oral arguments.

Until President Jimmy Carter launched an effort to diversify the lower federal courts, the U.

Today, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) has gained international recognition and is widely used to complement the conventional methods of resolving disputes through courts of law.

Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts.

Discusses Upendra Baxi''s role as an Indian jurist and how his contributions have shaped our understanding of legal jurisprudence.

Criminal Evidence is a well-respected and trusted introduction to the rules of criminal evidence for criminal justice students and professionals.

Key Facts Key Cases: Criminal Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your Criminal Law module with ease.

Examines the role of emotions in criminal behaviour, and their importance to the attribution of moral and criminal responsibility.

The book focuses, through multiple levels of international reality, on the pervasive and widespread effect of the Syrian civil war on the unravelling of established norms---both global or national--- which have determined international relations during the last seven decades.

Explores how proportionality analysis – a legal transplant from the West – is judicially enforced by courts around Asia.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has often been characterised both as a motor of integration and a judicial law-maker.