Legal System: General

This one-stop introduction gives you an overview of Scotland's mixed legal system, from its historical roots to how the judicial system works today...

What role can US domestic courts play in the worldwide enforcement of human rights? When international courts deny hearings to individual plaintiff...

Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of resistance in the ...

This title was first published in 2002: Within Europe and beyond, foreign judgement enforcement is now an essential component for the development o...

When can the Executive manipulate the composition of a Court? What political factors explain judicial instability on the bench? Using original fiel...

This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of major developments in the study of how phraseology is used in a wide range of diffe...

An excellent introduction to judicial politics as a method of analysis, the seventh edition of Judicial Process and Judicial Policymaking focuses o...

This book brings together over 40 papers presented at the 1992 International Construction Conflict Management & Resolution Conference held in M...

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

How can multilingualism and legal certainty be reconciled in EU law? Despite the importance of multilingualism for the European project, it has a...

Despite the unprecedented growth of arbitration and other means of ADR in treaties and transnational contracts in recent years, there remains no cl...

Resolving a conflict is based on the art of helping people, with disparate points of view, find enough common ground to ease their fears, sheath th...

Unlocking the English Legal System will help you grasp the main concepts of the legal system in England and Wales with ease. Containing accessible ...

Unlocking Legal Learning is an essential textbook for undergraduate students new to legal study. By explaining the different fields of this intrica...

This book explores misdemeanor courts in the United States by focusing on the processing of misdemeanor crimes and the resultant consequences of co...

English is the dominant language of international business relations, and a good working knowledge of the language is essential for todays legal or...

The concept of learning to think like a lawyer is one of the cornerstones of legal education in the United States and beyond. In this book, Jeffrey...

Transnational Construction Arbitration addresses topical issues in the field of dispute resolution in construction contracts from an international ...

This comprehensive study examines the development and changing characteristics of the judicial system and reform process over the past three decade...

Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European s...

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

A prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in Americaironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slave...

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...

Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals may be experts in their respective fields, but this expertise does not easily t...

Experts can be publicly embarrassed if they are ill-prepared, or do not understand their duties to the court. Many high-profile miscarriages of jus...

Trusted by generations of students and litigators, A Practical Approach to Civil Procedure is a classic text which guides you through the maze of p...

This volume explores an understudied aspect of courts: The extent to which informal institutions and relational networks (e.g., professional, clien...

Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This sixth volume in Palgraves SCOTUS...