Legal systems: general

Conflict in business and personal relationships is inevitable--much of the success of companies depends on how well they respond to it.

Marc Jacob analyses in depth the most important justificatory and decision-making tool of one of the world''s most powerful courts.

Can we rely solely on statistics when we judge what is true and just?

An in-depth look at the consequences of New York City's dramatically expanded policing of low-level offensesFelony conviction and mass incarceration attract considerable media attention these days, yet the most common criminal-justice encounters are for misdemeanors, not felonies, and the most common outcome is not prison.

This book informs the debates about judicial activism with concrete empirical analyses of what judges actually do.

Die gewerbliche Prozessfinanzierung ist eine juristische Finanzdienstleistung mit dem Charakter eines Investmentvehikels.

In The Judicial Role in a Diverse Federation, Robert Schertzer uses the example of the Supreme Court of Canada to examine how apex courts manage diversity and conflict in federal states.

Jürgen Kurtz provides a theoretically grounded and doctrinally tractable framework to understand the relationship between international trade and investment law.

The number of books and articles dealing with various aspects of World War II has increased at a phenomenal rate since the end of the hostilities.

Social movements provide the engine of legal change and law itself spurs social movement activity.

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

This book is part of the Cavendish Essential series.

This book challenges certain differences between contract, tort and equity in relation to the measure (in a broad sense) of damages.

Nelson identifies three principal institutions involved in conflict resolution: the twon meeting, the church congregation, and the courts of law.

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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.

The Forensic Psychologist's Reporting Writing Guide is the first book to provide both student trainees and practitioners with best practice guidance for one of the core skills of their role.

En este trabajo, se adopta una postura que explica que el tipo objetivo del delito imprudente no difiere en absoluto respecto del tipo objetivo del delito doloso y, por tanto, su diferenciación está en el lado subjetivo del tipo.

This book examines the legal principle of judicial independence in comparative perspective with the goal of advancing a better understanding of the idea of an independent judiciary more generally.

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Bringing together the forces of political debate, this book outlines civic fusion and the process of successful public policy mediation.

This book brings together contributions from academics and practitioners to explore the implications of legal pluralism for legal development.

How can otherwise normal, moral persons - as citizens, voters, and jurors - participate in a process that is designed to take the life of another?

Practical Investigation Techniques is useful for new as well as veteran investigators to establish a practical standard for conducting a wide range of diverse criminal investigations.

Since the 1960s, the class action lawsuit has been a powerful tool for holding businesses accountable.

This book introduces and explores the concept of multilingual law.

As the second volume of a two-volume set on mediation in China, this book examines the development of a diversified dispute resolution regime and other major types of mediation in China.

The development of private law across the common law world is typically portrayed as a series of incremental steps, each one delivered as a result of judges dealing with marginally different factual circumstances presented to them for determination.

A judge-made revolution?

Helter-Shelter is an ethnographic account of the manner in which an emergency shelter is governed on a daily basis, from the perspective of the personnel who are employed and tasked with providing care.

The book systematically describes the theory and practice of ICSID annulment proceedings by thoroughly analysing this mechanism in light of the annulment decisions rendered so far as well as the publications on the issue.

This is the second edition of this wide-ranging survey of EU law.

This book undertakes unique case studies, including interviews with participants, as well as empirical analysis, of public and private enforcement of Australian securities laws addressing continuous disclosure.

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.

Remedies Cases and Materials in Australian Private Law is an invaluable resource which enables students to understand remedial law.

International arbitration is a remarkably resilient institution, but many unresolved and largely unacknowledged ethical quandaries lurk below the surface.

How and why does restorative practice (RP) work?

How do Supreme Court justices decide their cases?

The interpretation and evaluation of scientific evidence and its presentation in a court of law is central both to the role of the forensic scientist as an expert witness and to the interests of justice.

A study of the decision-making process of Chinese courts and the non-legal forces and regional factors that influence judicial outcomes.

What is arbitration?

This book represents a comparative study of Third Party Funding (TPF) and its regulation in England, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands and the Mainland of China.