Comparative Law

Over the past 30 years, Latin America has lived through an intense period of constitutional change. Some reforms have been limited in their design ...

Criminal procedure in the common law world is being recast in the image of human rights. The cumulative impact of human rights laws, both internati...

Essential resources do more than satisfy people's needs. They ensure a dignified existence. Since the competition for essential resources, particul...

In this book, Víctor Ferreres Comella contrasts the European “centralized” constitutional court model, in which one court system is used to adjudic...

This book provides the first detailed analysis of the decision to prosecute made by the statutory Australian Offices of Director of Prosecution. ...

Should an employee be allowed to wear a religious symbol at work? Should a religious employer be allowed to impose constraints on employees’ privat...

While jury decision making has received considerable attention from social scientists, there have been few efforts to systematically pull together ...

For centuries, courts across the common law world have developed systems of law by building bodies of judicial decisions. In deciding individual ca...

This book provides an account of the evolving constitutional arrangement known as “One Country, Two Systems”, as practised in the Hong Kong Special...

Over the past 30 years, Latin America has lived through an intense period of constitutional change. Some reforms have been limited in their design ...

This book fills a gap in constitutional law by examining the global trend towards the substantive constitutional adjudication of electoral legislat...

This book focuses on contemporary problems related to fraud and risk in commercial law. It has been said by some that we are in a ‘golden age of f...

This book explores how constitutional courts have transformed communication and overcome their reluctance to engage in direct dialogue with citizen...

Implied constitutional principles form part of the landscape of the development of fundamental rights in common law jurisdictions, affecting issues...

Despite western Europe's traditional disdain for the United States' "adversarial legalism," the European Union is shifting toward a very similar ap...

A classic work in the anthropology of law, this book offered one of the first ambitiously conceived analyses of the fundamental rights and duties t...

This book engages in a theological critique of the legal frameworks and theoretical approaches of Australia, the US and England to create a peacefu...

Brings together 15 principal essays by David Sellar (1941 2019), reflecting his pioneering contribution to Scottish legal history Groups essays i...

This book provides a fascinating analysis of a single jurisdiction, Brazil, and accounts for both the successes and the failures of its most recen...

This law and society reader taps a rich and diverse literature to compare and contrast the legal experience of many different cultures and nations....

This is the first comprehensive casePub to address the relationship of uBuntu to law. It also provides the most important critical articles on the ...