Legal systems: general

This book explores why juries have declined in power and how the federal government and the states have taken the jury''s authority.

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This book aims to identify the sociological reasons that resulted in the perceived lack of authority of precedents in civil law systems, starting from the premise that common law systems rely on precedents, while civil law systems do not.

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This Element shows the judicial treatment of presidential directives and the legal bases and principles employed in federal court decisions.

This book applies social context to offer an understanding of the law concerning accidents, personal injury and death.

Getting the Government America Deserves analyzes government ethics law from the perspective of an academic critic and that of a lawyer who was the chief White House ethics lawyer for two and a half years.

The first study of how masculinity and femininity informed criminal behaviour in early modern England.

The book compares the different perceptions of legal disputes during litigation and mediation processes.

Should England adopt shari''a law?

Providing a comprehensive and detailed treatment of termination as a remedy for breach of contract, this book gives a current account of the law and explains this complex area in a practical context.

The book verifies the impact of national law and transnational rules on international contracts, particularly those with an arbitration clause.

Several of the most divisive moral conflicts that have beset Americans in the period since World War II have been transmuted into constitutional conflicts and resolved as such.

This book systematically examines how the Chinese arbitration law system responds to the application of the public policy exception in the judicial review of international arbitral awards.

The second volume of Select Legal Topics updates, analyses, and covers current developments in such areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, state civil procedure, civil rights matters, constitutional issues, and significant recent Supreme Court decisions.

When appointed to the Supreme Court in 1970 by President Nixon, Harry A.

The Economics of Lawmaking explores the relative advantages and limits of alternative sources of law.

Explores judicial independence, integrity and impartiality in Asia-Pacific countries.

China's ever-expanding commercial influence has attracted global attention on how its civil and commercial disputes are resolved.

Seit dem Jahr 2014 wälzt die Freie Hansestadt Bremen polizeiliche Aufwendungen für besonders risikobehaftete Großveranstaltungen auf deren Veranstalter ab.

Courts are context-conscious.

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.

This book is a compilation of thematically arranged essays that critically analyze emerging developments, issues, and perspectives in the field of comparative law, especially in the field of comparative constitutional law.

Patrick Dumberry provides a comprehensive analysis of the rules of customary international law in the field of international investment law.

Addresses the most central debates in contemporary investment law and policy.

This book provides practical and comprehensive guidance for national practising lawyers (judges and litigation attorneys) on the application of EU/EEA law before national courts.

The fourth volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats and the repression of dissent from the outset of World War One through the Great Depression.

This book presents an ethnography of dispute processing by non-state forums and actors in rural India.

This book discusses how UNIDROIT principles are viewed and interpreted in different countries, presenting various perspectives and practical lessons learned.

This book provides a critical psychosocial analysis of legal practice, documenting a mental health crisis among lawyers and judges and linking this crisis to a dysfunctional legal system they continue to control.

This book provides a deeper understanding of electronic evidence and its use in civil and commercial dispute resolution.

All managers are conflict managers, and Conflict Management and Leadership for Managers, Third Edition coaches current and future organizational leaders with the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent and manage every common source of conflict faced at work.

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Interactional Justice explores how defence lawyers accomplish their role in interaction with others and highlights the ways in which they do loyalty work - constructing and conveying loyalty in emotionally and interactionally constraining situations.

Handbook of Forensic Photography is the most-comprehensive, definitive reference for the use of photography in the capture and presentation of forensic evidence.

The Supreme Court of Canada decision in the Marshall case asserted sweeping Native treaty rights and generated intense controversy.

This book brings together leading and emerging scholars and practitioners to present an overview of how regional, international and transnational courts and tribunals are engaging with the environment.