Comparative Law

The papers published in this proceedings volume are written by a selection of authors, resulting from a call for papers for the 1st International C...

The right to self-determination has played a crucial role in the process of assisting oppressed people to put an end to colonial domination. Outsid...

This collection of articles critically examines legal subjectivity and ideas of citizenship inherent in legal thought. The chapters offer a novel p...

While the visibility of disability studies has increased in recent years, few have thoroughly examined the marginalization of people with disabilit...

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...