Comparative Law

Latin America has a long tradition of constitutional reform. Since the democratic transitions of the 1980s, most countries have amended their const...

The global financial crisis and subsequent sovereign debt crisis in Europe demonstrated that the relationship between law and economics in the desi...

Trademark scholarship has focused largely on the protection of trademark rights against consumer confusion and the dilution of trademarks. Studies ...

Stephen Gardbaum argues that recent bills of rights in Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia are an experiment in a new third way o...

Although the trust is generally seen as a creation of the common law tradition, modern civilian systems are increasingly interested in incorporatin...

As frustration mounts in some quarters at the perceived inadequacy or speed of international action on climate change, and as the likelihood of sig...

Comparative Religious Law provides for the first time a study of the regulatory instruments of Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious organisations...

Preventing acts of terrorism remains one of the major tasks of domestic governments and regional and international organisations. Terrorism transce...

During the past decade the role of constitutional courts has dramatically changed. Today, constitutional courts condition their decisions with the ...

This book explains why contemporary liberal democracies are based on historical templates rather than revolutionary reforms; why the transition in ...

Although there are many texts on the law of evidence, surprisingly few are devoted specifically to the comparative and international aspects of the...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has achieved deeper regional market integration to lay a socio-economic foundation for the devel...

The Indian Supreme Court is widely seen as a vanguard of progressive social change. Yet there are no systematic studies of whether its progressive ...

In 1956, ICJ judge Philip Jessup highlighted the gaps between private and public international law and the need to adapt the law to border-crossing...

The North-South global divide is as much about perception and prejudice as it is about economic disparities. Latin America is no less ruled by hege...

The preliminary reference procedure has long been envisaged as a judicial dialogue between the European Court of Justice and national courts. Howev...

This innovative book sets itself at the crossroads of several rapidly developing areas of research in legal and global studies related to social co...

In addressing the politics of the international regulation of public procurement, this book fills a major gap in the literature. Brown-Shafii does ...

Religious freedom is one of the most debated and controversial human rights in contemporary public discourse. At once a universally held human righ...

A unique collaboration between academic scholars, legal practitioners, and arbitrators, this handbook focuses on the intersection of arbitration - ...

This is the first Western-language research monograph detailing significant developments in consumer law and policy across the Association of South...

Property Law in a Globalizing World identifies the paramount challenges that contemporary processes of globalization pose for the study and practic...

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of globalization's impact on the Brazilian legal profession. Employing original data from nine ...