Legal systems: general

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation.

This book looks at fair and equitable treatment as a key standard of international investment law.

The public image of judges has been stuck in a time warp; they are invariably depicted in the media - and derided in public bars up and down the country - as 'privately educated Oxbridge types', usually 'out-of-touch', and more often than not as 'old men'.

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This book uses empirical analysis to show that courts refrain from using the proportionality test as a means of judicial activism.

This detailed analysis offers new perspectives on rhetoric and law from distinguished scholars.

Revealing analysis of how judges work as individuals and collectively to uphold judicial values in the face of contemporary challenges.

The process used to select judges of the Supreme Court of Canada has provoked criticism from the start.

In the past two decades, the General Counsel in many companies has risen in importance, and the GC is now often involved in business strategy from the inception.

Reflects on developments in trade practices law in Australia over the last 30 years.

This volume covers the years 1483-1558, a period of immense social, political, and intellectual changes, which profoundly affected the law and its workings.

For as long as we have been researching human memory, psychologists have been investigating how people remember and forget.

Comprehensive introductory textbook on the law and practice of international arbitration.

This book carries out a comprehensive analysis of the Maria Luz incident, a truly significant episode in Japanese and world history, from a legal perspective.

Analyses national practices on conflicts between international law and national fundamental principles with a comparative perspective.

The Rome I Regulation applies to all EU Member States (except Denmark) in relation to 'contractual obligations in civil and commercial matters' in 'situations involving a conflict of laws' that arise out of contracts concluded from 17 December 2009.

As the first volume of a two-volume set on mediation in China, this book examines the legal foundations of Chinese mediation and feasible paths to the institutionalization and professionalization of mediation.

This book assesses the role of court experts, court clerks and court staff, and other actors on the 'judicial periphery' who play an important role and often co-determine the pace, outcome, and tone of the judicial process.

More than just another new theoretical study, this book really is a practical and useful tool that I sincerely recommend.

Of all the steps in the Supreme Court's decision-making process, only one is visible to the public: the oral arguments.

Rhetoric scholars have articulated diverse approaches to both civil and human rights as political, ethical, and academic discourses.

This book provides a unique guide for the understanding and implementation of party representation guidelines in international arbitration.

This book focuses on an emerging problem in English contract law: what should be done when a party has been unjustly enriched as the result of a breach of contract but there is no measurable loss suffered by said party?

New Private Law Theory is pluralist, comparative, application-oriented, transnational and reflects critical approaches.

Teaching Legal Education in the Digital Age explores how legal pedagogy and curriculum design should be modernised to ensure that law students have a realistic view of the future of the legal profession.

Despite advances in DNA testing, forensics, and the investigative skills used by police, hundreds of crimes remain unsolved across Canada.

This volume explores the many ways in which politics shapes the allegedly nonpartisan judicial system in America, ranging from how judges are selected to the bench to how they rule when they get there.

This collection explores developments in the regulation of legal services by examining the control of the markets in several key countries and in jurisdictions within countries.

«Nichts versaut eine gute Geschichte so sehr, wie die Ankunft des Augenzeugen.

Blackstone's Civil Practice 2023 provides a detailed and accessible commentary of unrivalled quality on the process of civil litigation.

An examination of reactions to Supreme Court decisions in the local communities where the controversies began.