Comparative Law

Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, over 165 countries have incorporated human rights standards into their legal s...

In this groundbreaking book, Frank K .Upham uses empirical analysis and economic theory to demonstrate how myths surrounding property law have blin...

The very concept of human rights implies governmental accountability. To ensure that governments are indeed held accountable for their treatment of...

Families and family law have encountered significant challenges in the face of rapid changes in social norms, demographics and political expectatio...

The enterprise of comparative law is familiar, yet its conceptual whereabouts remain somewhat obscure. Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruc...

A comprehensive account of modern Turkish attitudes, legislation, treaty engagements, and State practice based on historical attitudes and contempo...

Jewish law is a singular legal system that has been evolving for generations. Often conflated with Biblical law or Israeli law, Jewish law needs to...

The essays selected for this volume address topics at the intersection of religion and equality law, including discrimination against religion, dis...

A companion volume to the The Best in the West: Educator, Jurist, Arbitrator: Liber Amicorum in Honour of Professor William Butler (number three in...

Food is produced not only to be consumed in the country of its origin, but also to be exported to various locations worldwide. As such, manufacture...

Legal Traditions of the World places national laws in the broader context of major legal traditions, those of chthonic (or indigenous) law, talmudi...

This volume focuses on the making, nature, and role of the first modern constitutions at the founding of the modern nation-states in Southeast Asia...

This monograph investigates the International, European and Commonwealth Caribbean approaches to human trafficking from an Analytical Eclectic pers...

The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law series describes and analyses the public law of the European legal space, an area that encompasses ...

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Over the last few years, the energy sector in Europe has undergone rapid change. Following the adoption of the EU Third Energy Package and the Clim...

The new edition of European Tort Law provides an extensive revision and update of the only English language handbook in this constantly evolving ar...

This is the second title in the new Oxford International and Comparative Insolvency Law Series. Virtually any insolvency needs to deal with the mat...