Comparative Law

This volume examines the range of Non-Trade Concerns (NTCs) that may conflict with international economic rules and proposes ways to protect them w...

Regional Autonomy, Cultural Diversity and Differentiated Territorial Government assesses the current state of the international theory and practice...

Health rights litigation is still an emerging phenomenon in Africa, despite the constitutions of many African countries having provisions to advanc...

This book explores the human rights consequences of recent and ongoing revisions of mental health legislation in England and Ireland. Presenting a ...

This book explores the question of justification of law. It examines some perennial jurisprudential debates and suggests that law must find its jus...

This book investigates the dynamic intertwinement of law and morality, with a focus on new and developing fields of law. Taking as its starting poi...

This groundbreaking monograph asserts the need for the establishment of an exclusionary rule of evidence in China as a means of protecting the peop...

For many years, legislators around the world have responded to the particular needs of consumers by introducing dedicated rules for consumer sales ...

Legal Pluralism in Central Asia reports on historical, anthropological and legal research which examines customary legal practices in Kyrgyzstan an...

A number of recent events in the last decade have renewed interest in Russian discourses on international law. This book evaluates and presents a c...

The book profiles some of the macro and micro factors that have impact on European religious literacy. It seeks to understand religious illiteracy ...

This book provides a leading point of reference in the field of partial defences to murder and with respect to the mental condition defences of los...

In the world of law enforcement art and antiquity crime has in the past usually assumed a place of low interest and priority. That situation has no...

Judicial networks have proved effective in influencing recent judicial policies enacted by both old and new EU member states. However, this influen...

This book explores the recent trend of enhancing the role of the people in constitutional change. It traces the reasons underlying this tendency, t...

Sudan and South Sudan have suffered from repeated cycles of conflict and authoritarianism resulting in serious human rights and humanitarian law vi...

In an era where new areas of life and new problems call for normative solutions while the plurality of values in society challenge the very basis f...

Legal lexicography or jurilexicography is the most neglected aspect of the discipline of jurilinguistics, despite its great relevance for translato...

What do different concepts like true lie, bad luck, honest thief, old news, spacetime, glocalization, symplexity, sustainable development, constant...

Many jurisdictions in Asia have vested their courts with the power of constitutional review. Traditionally, these courts would invalidate an impugn...

This book examines the little or not previously researched roles and contributions of non-legal professionals in Japanese criminal justice against ...

In the past few years, constitutional courts have been presented with new challenges. The world financial crisis, the new wave of terrorism, mass m...

This book provides a comprehensive and up to date comparative study of the management and resolution of conflicts between conservation and recreati...

This volume shows how and why legal empowerment is important for those exercising their religious rights under various jurisdictions, in conditions...

This book brings legal and academic perspective to the theory and practice surrounding the right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time. This f...

We have witnessed a digital revolution that affects the dynamics of existing traditional social, economic, political and legal systems. This revolu...

The volume presents an extensive investigation into the process of reforms of detention powers in todays China and offers an in-depth analysis of t...

Consumer law, particularly consumer credit law, is characterised by increasingly complex regulation in Western economies. Reacting to the Global Fi...

Uganda, like many African countries in the 1990s, adopted decentralisation as a state reform measure after many years of civil strife and political...

This volume offers a diverse set of perspectives on transnational crime. Providing a wide-ranging overview of the legal and policy issues that aris...

Customary law and traditional authorities continue to play highly complex and contested roles in contemporary African states. Reversing the common ...

This title was first published in 2002: The issue of immigration and crime in all of its many contexts and forms, is a problem which affects numero...

The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) has been relatively neglected in the field of normative human rights theory. This book aims to bridg...

This volume presents an analysis of controversial events and issues shaping a rapidly changing international legal, political, and social landscape...

First published in 2006, this book brings together some of the most innovative and important research on civil rights law and legality, this book d...

Requirements for the defendant to actively participate in the English criminal process have been increasing in recent years such that the defendant...

E-voting is the use of electronic means in the casting of the vote at political elections or referendums. This book provides an overview of e-voti...

In Scandinavian countries immigration is a sensitive issue and legislators approach to the questions it has raised has varied over the years. What...

This title was first published in 2000: This text tackles the issues raised by comparative research into criminal justice on other cultures. How fa...

Exploring the advantages and disadvantages of codifying contract law, this book considers the question from the perspectives of both civil and comm...

This books essays seek to cleanse comparative law of some of the epistemic detritus it has been collecting and that has been cluttering its theory ...

This book examines the extent to which Brexit has impacted upon the operation of the British Constitution, prompting in turn consideration of how s...

Lawfare is a complex and evolving concept with many permutations. It is a term that is used to describe both a judicialisation of politics where th...

These are momentous times for the comparative analysis of judicial behaviour. Once the sole province of U.S. scholarsand mostly political scientist...

This book offers an in-depth analysis of a fundamental human freedom and a cornerstone of democracy: the Freedom of Religions or Beliefs (FoRB). Th...

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The chapters collected in this book explore the place and role of judge-made private law in an emerging European polity. Examining case-law from t...

Over 2 billion people (61% of the worlds employed population) work in the informal economy. Due to its pervasiveness, informality plays a major r...