Legal System: General

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...