Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law

The Jewish Family examines Jewish family law in the light of new attitudes concerning the role of women.

Reinventing Legal Education explores how clinical legal education - a new frontier for European public interest lawyering - is reforming law teaching and practice in Europe.

Excessive household debt has allowed for economic growth, but this model has become increasingly unstable.

A lucid analysis of the constitutional and legal issues arising from Australian governmental responses to various sorts of emergencies.

This book examines how constitutional laws aimed at protecting the environment are being implemented and applied throughout the world.

Examines the implementation of the rights revolution, bringing together a distinguished group of political scientists and legal scholars who study the roles of agencies and courts in shaping the enforcement of civil rights statutes.

An International Court of Civil Justice would give victims of multinationals a day in court while offering corporate defendants a cheaper, fairer litigation alternative.

This edited volume examines constitution-making from the perspective of those directly engaged in the process in different countries around the world.

Examines Nazi legal theory, the normative ideas driving the Führer state and the legal subtext to the regime''s escalating atrocities.

This is a comprehensive look at the challenges legislators face in regulating related party transactions in a socially beneficial way.

Builds on micro-level critiques of transitional justice to debate a more comprehensive alternative at the level of theory and practice.

Offers an alternative picture of the causes of human violence, showing strategies for change through concerted societal action.

Biography of the Abortion Act, exploring how it was shaped by and shaped a changing UK.

This book explores the ''clean hands'' doctrine, a safety valve in the legal system designed to correct injustice.

A compelling collection of essays by female scholars examining the relationships between sustainability, corporations and the role of gender.

A comparative analysis of the growth and regulation of shadow banking activities by large banks in Western Europe and the US.

A revolutionary approach exploring legal themes such as justice, legitimacy, sovereignty, and power through close readings of major works of art.

Examines the social, legal and cultural challenges navigating the boundaries of ''normal''-''problematic''-''risky'' sexual behaviours among peers.

Provides an in-depth assessment of the exhaustion doctrine and explores how its various implementations have shaped international trade issues.

Exploring issues from big-data to robotics, this volume is the first to comprehensively examine the regulatory implications of AI technology.

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

Analyses the mediation of property rights and social justice through the prism of ''progressive'' constitutional property rights guarantees.

This volume studies the implications of the right to inclusive education in human rights law for disability law, policy and practice.

This book argues that overcoming people''s inability to recognize their own wrongdoing is the most important but regrettably neglected area of the behavioral approach to law.

Explores the development of nineteenth-century performance copyright laws which shape how we define and value drama and music.

Explores the moral quandaries of multiple citizenship in the context of broader debates in normative political theory.

A unique collection of legal, religious, ethical, and political perspectives on debates surrounding biotechnology patents or ''patents on life''.

Provides the first comparative look into executive decree authority.

International civil aviation is a significant polluter of the atmosphere.

Moral Contagion highlights the central roles that race and international diplomacy played in the development of American citizenship.

Detailed study of the ICC''s practice in prosecuting gender-based crimes, current up to the ICC Statute''s twentieth anniversary in 2018.

This comprehensive international and comparative account reconceptualises the public domain, providing new insights into copyright and copyright law reform.

This book provides a contextual analysis of ASEAN law and its impact on the business and commercial aspect of laws.

Discusses the nature of corporate groups and networks, and provides arguments for rules extending liability beyond insolvent entities.

Li explores foreign investors'' compliance with host countries'' laws, drawing from detailed data on Chinese direct investment in the US.

Investigates the struggle between governments, parliaments, the people and courts over who participates in EU treaty making.

Highlights what national governments should know to properly conduct their industrial policies under the multilateral trading system.

The book describes how intellectual property law is framed by theories about incentives, trade, health, development, and human rights.

Investigates how foreigners charged with capital murder in the United States are deprived of rights by police and courts.

Leading corporate lawyers and academics evaluate Delaware''s dominance of corporate law and the challenges it now faces.

A critical take on the convergence of human rights discourse with the counterterrorism agenda revealing its effects on developing countries.

An exploration of how petty theft in the nineteenth-century German countryside contributed to the modern-day legal system and property laws.

Shows how the Norwegian model of judicial review provides an alternative to American and European constitutionalism.

Strict enforcement of unreasonable contracts can produce outrageous consequences.

A longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, challenging Euro-American exceptionalism to reveal developments that considered the best interests of the child.

Critically examines the human rights activities of the Council of Europe and the European Union at a time of uncertainty and change.

Examines the experiences of couples in controversial unions and the legal and cultural backlash against contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America.

The first volume of its kind to take a comprehensive view of social justice issues and interventions for young people from a global perspective.

Explores the foundations and evolution of corporate fiduciary law in the United States and the United Kingdom.

This is a detailed account of interpretative practices and the ''law in action'' that draws lessons for the drafting of copyright exceptions.