Comparative Law

Claiming a Promised Inheritance examines those cases where a person is promised a future inheritance and, having acted on it, later discovers that ...

There are now a number of statutes in different parts of the world that offer non-constitutional protection for human rights through mechanisms suc...

Many Europeans struggle to understand where EU-centred Europeanization has led them. The standard response - that their situation is sui generis, o...

This book shows how the mainstream doctrines of substantive criminal law map onto certain key underlying (and overlapping) principles. These princi...

As globalisation continues apace, opportunities are arising for practitioners in trust jurisdictions that did not exist a few years ago. Growth con...

Effective Legal Remedy (ELR) is a legal concept of universal value. Its primary purpose is the protection of individual rights and freedoms against...

The last twenty years have seen an unprecedented rise in the use of secret courts or closed material proceedings largely brought about in response ...

In recent years, controversy has surrounded the role of top government lawyers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Allegations of bad lawy...

The executive branch in Western democracies has been granted a virtually impossible task: expected to 'imperially' direct the life of the nation th...

More than half of the world's population lives in cities; by 2050, it will be more than three quarters. Projections suggest that megacities of 50 m...

The issue of who has the power to declare war or authorise military action in a democracy has become a major legal and political issue, internation...

This book evaluates how the legal, institutional and policy frameworks for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the United States, South Africa and K...

This book contains a collection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the Eleventh Biennial Modern Studies in Property Law Conference held at Queens...

The book provides rule-by-rule commentaries on European contract law (general contract law, consumer contract law, the law of sale and related serv...

2013 was the 50th anniversary of the House of Lords landmark decision in Hedley Byrne v Heller. This international collection of essays brings toge...

This is the third revised edition of what was described by the English Court of Appeal in C v D as the standard work on Bermuda Form excess insuran...

This book focuses on the Polish Constitution of 1997, concentrating on its structure, its substance and some of the institutional choices made by t...

This special issue asks what role society can play in the regulation of transnational risks, as an alternative to or at least significant addition ...

This book is a compilation of twenty essays prepared for the occasion of the XIII Academic Conference of the Constitutional Court of the Republic o...

The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law offers a unique and unparalleled treatment and presentation in the field of Transnational Law that has bec...