Legal systems: general

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

A unique volume demonstrating how law changes by reason of challenges to authority which seek the recognition of rights.

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

Uses the EU Treaty framework to (re)assess the legitimacy of the Court of Justice''s institutional role in European integration.

Offers extensive and detailed commentary on safeguards, emphasising practice and risk from an investigating authority''s perspective.

Offers extensive and detailed commentary on safeguards, emphasising practice and risk from an investigating authority''s perspective.

Argues that legislatures are necessary for securing human rights, and opposes theories that locate that responsibility primarily with courts.

This book examines the processes through which the resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly acquire legal significance through state practice.

Takes an in-depth look into the war victim''s right to reparation from the seventeenth century until the present day.

Building on extensive fieldwork in China and Indonesia, Hurst offers a valuable comparison of legal systems in practice.

Explores how performance measurement systems shape South African court and managerial prosecutors'' understanding of accountability and their legal work practices.

Discusses the judicial role in constitutional authoritarianism in the context of Korea''s political and constitutional transitions.

Takes an in-depth look into the war victim''s right to reparation from the seventeenth century until the present day.

The first comprehensive study of China''s role in international dispute resolution in the context of the ''Belt and Road Initiative''.

How do lawyers think?

Explains the legal implications of internationalisation, standardisation and diversification in modern derivatives markets, demonstrating the key role of national courts.

Explores how suspect statements are elicited in police interrogations, written down and transformed into a document that is cited in court.

Explores Mill''s influence on our constitutional rights tradition including the right to privacy, free speech and how we understand liberty.

The first comprehensive study of China''s role in international dispute resolution in the context of the ''Belt and Road Initiative''.

Explores Mill''s influence on our constitutional rights tradition including the right to privacy, free speech and how we understand liberty.

Examines how personality traits shape the behavior of US Supreme Court justices, proposing a new theory of judicial behavior.

Explores the effects in theory and in practice of recent foreign inspired legal reforms in East Asia and Oceania.

Explores the English origins of the principles of judicial review in common law jurisdictions and autochthonous pressures for their adaptation.

Leading empirical legal scholars from around the world explore whether and under what conditions the judicial process is efficient.

Explores the English origins of the principles of judicial review in common law jurisdictions and autochthonous pressures for their adaptation.

An analysis of law and imperial rule reveals that Tsarist Russia was far more ''lawful'' than generally assumed.

This book examines the role of home states to investment disputes and questions whether it represents a return to diplomatic protection.

Well-chosen negative legal proof rules can be useful procedural safeguards.

An analysis of law and imperial rule reveals that Tsarist Russia was far more ''lawful'' than generally assumed.

Presents a new approach to prominent judgments of the European Court of Justice drawing on the writings of Judge Robert Lecourt.

Discusses the judicial role in constitutional authoritarianism in the context of Korea''s political and constitutional transitions.

Tyranny is pervasive.

Examines the relationship between the president and the Supreme Court, including how presidents view the norm of judicial independence.

This book examines the role of home states to investment disputes and questions whether it represents a return to diplomatic protection.

García-Villegas compares the scholarship on the relationship between law, political power, and society in the United States and France.

Explores how performance measurement systems shape South African court and managerial prosecutors'' understanding of accountability and their legal work practices.

How do lawyers think?

Presents a new approach to prominent judgments of the European Court of Justice drawing on the writings of Judge Robert Lecourt.

Tyranny is pervasive.

Examines the relationship between the president and the Supreme Court, including how presidents view the norm of judicial independence.

Explores the effects in theory and in practice of recent foreign inspired legal reforms in East Asia and Oceania.

Critically discusses the increasing significance of Asian States in the field of international investment law and policy.

Australian Uniform Evidence Law offers an introduction to the law of evidence and its operation across Uniform Evidence Act jurisdictions.

A convenient single volume introduction to international arbitration written by experts, including discussion of the latest developments.

A convenient single volume introduction to international arbitration written by experts, including discussion of the latest developments.

Looks at legal, economic and policy issues related to third party funding in common law, civil law jurisdictions and international contexts.

Looks at legal, economic and policy issues related to third party funding in common law, civil law jurisdictions and international contexts.

This book analyses the most recent processes, laws and best practices for consumer dispute resolution and the law related to consumer redress.

A unique article-by-article commentary on the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement, offering an essential and comprehensive insight into WTO case-law.

Provides a quantitative history of the development of constitutional law in the United States during the past 150 years.