Legal systems: general

Waluchow urges a different theory of bills of rights that is flexible and adaptable.

Alan Paterson argues that, in a democracy, legal institutions are too important to be defined and controlled by lawyers alone.

The value of mediation has been widely acknowledged worldwide, as shown by the number of jurisdictions in which the courts enforce obligations on parties to negotiate and adopt mediation to settle construction disputes.

Do independent boards of appeal set up in some EU agencies and the European Ombudsman compensate for the shortcomings of EU Courts?

This thoroughly revised second edition incorporates major changes made in the procedures and practice of the Inter-American Court since the book''s original publication.

This fourth edition of Business Law offers comprehensive and accessible coverage of the key aspects of business law.

There is no universally accepted definition of moral damages, but the concept is usually understood in the context of torts that cause psychological harm to a person or a person's rights that are difficult to quantify.

The Developing World of Arbitration studies the recent emergence of Asia Pacific jurisdictions as regional or international arbitration centres, thanks to various reform efforts and initiatives.

Gives you the scoop on how the Court reaches its decisions Get involved and track a case through the system This fun and easy guide demystifies the federal court system by describing what kinds of cases the justices hear, outlining how cases reach the Supreme Court, clarifying legal terms, and explaining how the Court arrives at its decisions.

A guide to the American legal system, told through the story of two actual court cases The Steps to the Supreme Court takes a lively, narrative approach to the subject by following two real cases--one civil, one criminal--as they work their way through the system all the way up to the Supreme Court.

In any account of twentieth-century Canadian law, Bora Laskin (1912-1984) looms large.

Dieses Buch behandelt die völkerrechtliche Immunität von Staaten und ihren Untergliederungen gegen hoheitliche Zwangsmaßnahmen anderer Staaten.

In this book, leading experts from across the common law world assess the impact of four seminal House of Lords judgments decided in the 1960s: Ridge v Baldwin, Padfeld v Minister of Agriculture, Conway v Rimmer, and Anisminic v Foreign Compensation Commission.

The Kentucky-born son of a Baptist preacher, with an early tendency toward racial prejudice, Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge (1894-1949) became one of the Court's leading liberal activists and an early supporter of racial equality, free speech, and church-state separation.

This edited collection asks how key New Zealand judgments might read if they were written by a feminist judge.

How to prepare and present a winning civil court caseMany disputes are too big for small claims court but too small to justify a lawyer's fee.

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

Digital mediation is here to stay, but how do mediators, advisers and clients achieve the same results from digital mediations as they do from face to face mediations?

This eye-opening book will show you how the power of persuasion can help you talk to anybody about anything and get what you want from it.

This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The need to balance power between the Member States and the Union and between public power and the market has created powerful constitutional dilemmas for the European Union.

This book examines the interconnections between artificial intelligence, data governance and private law rules with a comparative focus on selected jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region.

Damages are a topic of central importance in international arbitration, being very often the principal concern of the parties, and an indication of the performance of their counsel.

A trenchant critique of developments in civil justice that questions modern orthodoxy and points to a downgrading of civil justice.

This book gathers the general contributions to the 3rd Thematic Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, which took place from 16 to 18 November 2016 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

For the uninitiated, the Irish District Court is a place of incomprehensible, organised chaos.

Dupret explores how the concept of positive law operated in the Muslim world.

This book presents a selection of the latest arbitration cases, materials, and commentaries from China.

A comparative perspective of role played by three generations of European Constitutional Courts in the process of transition to democracy.

A comprehensive analysis of the extent, method, purpose and effects of domestic and international courts'' judicial dialogue on human rights.

International authors describe class action procedure in this concise, comparative, and empirical perspective on aggregate litigation.

The main topic is dispute resolution within specific Africa countries, and the journey of Africa becoming a global leader as the seat of dispute resolution, focusing on the mechanisms of mediation, arbitration, conciliation and negotiation.

This book focuses on an article-by-article interpretation of the Foreign Investment Law of the People's Republic of China, which was adopted on March 15, 2019.

A la singularidad de los PROCESOS MATRIMONIALES se une la pluralidad de las materias que se agrupan bajo esta denominación.

The seventh edition of this successful textbook on the techniques and institutions used to solve international disputes.

This book discusses the future role of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a world facing survival challenges.

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