Legal systems: general

Shareholder treaty claims risk multiple recovery and prejudice to third parties.

The insolvency of states is by no means a rare or new phenomenon.

English is the dominant language of international business relations, and a good working knowledge of the language is essential for today's legal or business professional.

What happens when public prosecutors, the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system, seek convictions instead of justice?

Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change.

Consumer out-of-court redress in the European Union is experiencing a significant transformation; indeed the current changes are the most important that have occurred in the history of the EU.

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

This book offers an analysis of the current trends and developments in Nordic civil litigation and is divided into four main parts.

This book reviews for the first time some of the less frequently addressed actors in international investment law.

Individuals, groups, and societies all experience conflict, and attempt to resolve it in numerous ways.

FIDIC contracts are the most widely used contracts for international construction around the world and are used in many different jurisdictions, both common law and civil law.

Who gets seated on the lower federal courts and why?

A revealing examination of the Supreme Court's justices and their "e;cautiously moderate"e; jurisprudence during the ten-year tenure of Chief Justice Salmon Portland Chase.

This book provides theoretical and practical insights for effective decision making in situations that involve various types of conflict cleavages.

We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand.

A striking new analysis of Myanmar''s court system, revealing how the rule of law is ''lexically present but semantically absent''.

This book is a study of the social transformation of criminal justice, its institutions, its method of case disposition and the source of its legitimacy.

Zeugen gelten zu Recht als das unsicherste aller Beweismittel.

A constitutional order is a system of systems.

Can you hear the child's voice?

En esta monografía se analizan los distintos supuestos de responsabilidad de los transportistas aéreos, y los correlativos derechos de los pasajeros, especialmente en caso de denegación de embarque, cancelación de vuelos, retrasos, pérdidas de equipaje y daños o retrasos en la entrega del mismo, dedicando un epígrafe especial a los derechos de los pasajeros tras la pandemia por Covid-19 que desde el pasado día 11 de marzo afecta a todo el mundo y que ha supuesto la cancelación de multitud de vuelos.

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

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

The Alabama State Constitution provides extensive analysis on American's longest state constitution, with an emphasis on the impact of recent court decisions declaring several of its most recently adopted provisions as in conflict with the U.

This analysis provides novel insights into the resolution of transfer pricing disputes around the world.

The book addresses a topic at the intersection of two heavily regulated sectors: insurance and investment services.

The first comprehensive, article-by-article commentary on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration.

Challenges depictions of law as a façade for political repression by examining political trials in Zimbabwe after 2000.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

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

This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of major developments in the study of how phraseology is used in a wide range of different legal and institutional contexts.

Are you getting the best out of mediation?

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to conflict solution focusing on a very specific type of conflict, retributive conflicts .

With the growth of the global economy over the past two decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) laws, at both the national and international levels, have undergone rapid development in order to strengthen the protection standards for foreign investors.

This timely and accessible volume takes a fresh approach to a question of increasing public concern: whether or not the federal government should regulate media violence.

This collection examines one of the fastest growing fields of regulation: data rights.

An examination of international attempts to develop common principles for regulating criminal evidence across different legal traditions.

Should the Supreme Court have the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution?

Until President Jimmy Carter launched an effort to diversify the lower federal courts, the U.