Comparative Law

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...

Welcome to the 2024 edition of Global Legal Insights Pricing & Reimbursement. I hope this is a valuable resource for those seeking to navigate...

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...