Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law

Uses a comparative analysis of case law in leading common law nations to demonstrate how religious discrimination is culturally determined.

This book explores the democratic methods by which political communities make their basic law, and the dangers associated with constitution-making.

A theoretical critique of the patent and innovation policy funnelled by intellectual property instruments towards developing countries.

Legal frameworks to ''reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation'' (REDD+) are analysed to focus on protections and benefits for indigenous peoples and forest communities.

Looks at the early development of the federal income tax in the United States.

Marking the Sesquicentennial of Confederation in Canada, this book examines the growing global influence of Canada''s Constitution and Supreme Court on courts confronting issues involving human rights.

Free speech, privacy and truth on the internet are linked in a messy, unruly way that needs to be embraced.

The first analysis of how victims of crime and human rights abuses access justice in Latin America through private prosecution.

Leading Anglo-American scholars assess the significance of the fusion of law and equity from comparative, doctrinal, historical and theoretical perspectives.

A comprehensive discussion of international trade courts and tribunals with specific emphasis on their performance and legitimacy.

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

Offers new understandings of the famous foxhunting case, Pierson v.

Explores the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings.

Explores the shaping of China and India''s energy and climate policies by two-level pressures characterized as wealth, status and asymmetrical interdependence.

Evaluates the challenges and changes that the Belt and Road Initiative brings to China in international law and governance.

Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.

This book investigates how some corporations have avoided tax liability with intellectual property holding companies, and how different constituencies are working to stop them.

Research volume on urban energy transition that will have wide interdisciplinary appeal to researchers in energy, urban and environmental studies.

Captures significant transformations in the theory and practice of economic and social rights in constitutional and human rights law.

Analyzes the role of self-determination and territorial integrity in some of the most difficult decolonization cases.

This book takes an original and comparative approach to issues of causation in tort law across many European legal systems.

Identifies and explains the constitutional problems triggered by the government''s speech, and proposes a new framework for thinking about them.

Identifies how and why ''dialogue'' can describe and evaluate institutional interactions over constitutional questions concerning democracy and rights.

Considers the ICTY to demonstrate illiberal practices of international criminal tribunals, and proposes a return to process to protect the rule of law.

Will help its audience gain an understanding of the dimensions to contemporary constitutions, and their role in the interpretation, legitimacy and stability of different constitutional systems.

Presents comprehensively the currently un-mapped constellation of issues related to climate change, public health, and the law.

Examines clashes over religious liberty spanning the life cycle of families - from birth to death.

How do immigration and refugee laws work ''in action'' in Russia?

This book presents a searching critique of excessive reliance on courts as ''democracy-builders'' in states emerging from authoritarian rule.

Examines and compares East Asian and European perspectives of Global Constitutionalism.

The first in-depth study to integrate the study of legal language with analysis of multimodal communication.

This book applies and explores Catholic social thought, focusing on the relevance of the encyclical Laudato Si'' in an era of climate crises.

Engages with the life and work of Larry Alexander to explore puzzles and paradoxes in legal and moral theory.

Examines the law governing American education and proposes social constructivist pedagogy as a model for reform efforts.

Examines how law regulates religion and explores the influence of world religions on the legal systems in Asia.

This book critically analyses the origins, the creation, and the evolution of an international law on investment contract protection.

Evaluates the successes and failures of the 1996 South African Constitution following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment.

Investigates the relationship between international organizations and private subjects under the unexplored perspective of procurement by international organizations.

Studies the GATS prudential carve-out as well as prudential carve-outs in preferential trade agreements.

A critical examination of the effect of the European Court of Human Rights on Russia''s approach to human rights.

This book examines an unexplored method of interpretation: the use of domestic law in the interpretation of international law.

Tells the tragic story of Puerto Ricans who sought the post-Civil War regime of citizenship, rights, and statehood but instead received racist imperial governance.

This book explores an emerging type of intellectual property remedy - an injunction that can compel innocent third parties to provide enforcement assistance.

Addresses the difficult question of how to determine the authorship, and ownership, of copyright in highly collaborative works.

Pressures emanating from China''s scale, regulatory politics, and need to feed itself has led to its decade''s long food safety crisis.

Draws on archival research to tell the story of the nineteenth and twentieth-century development of commercial law through practice.

A study of state responsibility for acts committed in the course of different stages of adjudicatory process.

A comprehensive overview of the efforts of state and non-state actors in the former Soviet Union to redress the past.

Challenges the myths of common law''s superiority over statute law using newly available historical sources and a comparative law analysis.

Examines regional competition policy developments in South East Asia, exploring a broad range of related issues from diverse perspectives.