Legal systems: general

The idea that wealthy people use their money to influence things, including politics, law, and media will surprise very few people.

This book examines the issue of foreign investor misconduct in modern international investment law, focusing on the approach that international investment law as it currently operates has developed towards foreign investor misconduct.

This book assembles essays on legal sociology and legal history by a group of distinguished scholars who have been influenced by Lawrence M.

An increasing number of international trade disputes are settled through the WTO dispute settlement (DS) procedure.

The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) is one of the world's most highly sophisticated arbitration institutions, with a continuously growing annual caseload.

This book helps to bridge the knowledge gap that currently surrounds space technology and its method of exploration and highlights much-needed awareness and attention to an increase in Space Law and sustainable measures.

This book assesses stability guarantees through the lens of the legitimate expectations principle to offer a new perspective on the stability concept in international energy investments.

The effective mentoring of new associates used to be a natural part of the process for law firms, but nowadays economic pressures are inhibiting the practice; personal mentoring is being eliminated by the fiscal restraints of higher starting salaries and client insistence on fewer lawyers, and hands-on experience is hard to come by.

Public Security in Federal Polities is the first systematic and methodical study to bring together the fields of security studies and comparative federalism.

Key Directions in Legal Education identifies and explores key contemporary and emerging themes that are significant and heavily debated within legal education from both UK and international perspectives.

As the nation turned its back on Reconstruction, the Supreme Court in turn narrowed Thirteenth-, Fourteenth-, and Fifteenth-Amendment protections of former slaves, thus straying from the understanding of the amendments' framers.

This book assesses data protection rules that are applicable to the processing of personal data in a law enforcement context.

This book reviews the periodic changes in the legal policies of the late-developing ASEAN countries, often known as the CLMV countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam), in their continuous path toward globalization after the collapse of the socialist bloc.

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

In a projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E.

Focusing on practical principles or guidelines for arbitrators, this book covers everything a prospective international commercial arbitrator should know about conducting an arbitration in Hong Kong.

The modern era of competition law in New Zealand began with the Commerce Act 1986.

If a defendant is on trial for a crime such as burglary, to what extent should the fact that he has a previous conviction for burglary feature in his trial?

Der Autor untersucht den Schutz von Geschäftsgeheimnissen im Zivilprozess.

Winner of the Saltire Society First Book Award 2016An Economist Book of the Year 2016A Spectator Book of the Year 2016In 2011, Isabel Buchanan, a twenty-three-year-old Scottish lawyer, moved to Pakistan to work in a new legal chambers in Lahore.

Claims of fraud and breach of warranty are common following the purchase of a business.

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

This fully revised and updated second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law provides a wide-ranging and diverse critical survey of comparative law at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

'Here you have all you need to know and more this textbook will become the ADR bible.

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

The use of third-party funding in the UK has been increasing and has moved into the mainstream as a funding option for clients involved in litigation, particularly following on from the positive endorsement of litigation funding by Lord Justice Jackson in his Review of Civil Litigation Costs where he said: 'I remain of the view that, in principle, third-party funding is beneficial and should be supported.

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

An exploration of how rule of law and constitutional ideals inform, and are informed by, political realities.

In the last few decades university teaching has been recognised as an activity which can be studied and improved through educational scholarship.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in Turkey's labour dispute resolution system, and helps compare the Turkish system especially with those in European countries.

Today, international commercial disputes regularly involve multiple parties, contracts, and issues.

This book is the second in a series of studies published under the auspices of the Institute for Holocaust Studies of the Graduate School and U niver- sity Center of The City University of New York.

The politics of division and distraction, conservatives claims of liberalisms dangers, the wisdom of amoral foreign policy, a partisan challenge to a Supreme Court justice, and threats to the constitutionally mandated balance between the three branches of government: however of the moment these matters might seem, they are clearly presaged in events chronicled by Joshua E.

Scrutinises the impact a comparative approach can have on investment law, and identifies a method for drawing sound analogies.

Today 700 million Chinese citizens -- more than fifty-four percent of the population -- live in cities.

We show how blockchain as a new contracting technology can improve contracting outcomes without the involvement of courts.

Exploring the intricate relationship between law, economics, and global politics, this book examines the regulatory environment of the aviation industry.

Nasty, below-the-belt campaigns, mudslinging, and character attacks.