Systems of Law

This handbook is a detailed reference source comprising original articles covering the origins, history, theory and practice of Islamic law. The ha...

The monograph discusses the problem of aerial terrorism, one of the biggest challenges humanity faces in the 21st century. Its main goal is to answ...

Harmonisation of law, a term that refers to the bringing together of two different legal traditions, has developed a negative connotation when cons...

Harmonisation of law, a term that refers to the bringing together of two different legal traditions, has developed a negative connotation when cons...

Harmonisation of law, a term that refers to the bringing together of two different legal traditions, has developed a negative connotation when cons...

EU Criminal Law, Policing, and Civil Law offers comprehensive coverage and expert analysis of every facet of EU Justice and Home Affairs Law concer...

Too often, Western encounters with the Islamic world commence with stereotypes and end with a renewed distance. Drawing from decades of experience ...

Financial Times Best Books of 2023 in Economics The global battle among the three dominant digital powersthe United States, China, and the Europea...

In 1803 in the colonial South American city of La Plata, Doña Martina Vilvado y Balverde presented herself to church and crown officials to denounc...

This collection of essays explores the evolution of anti-discrimination law in European civil law jurisdictions. Historically, scholarship in this ...

She declares, so the bishops will write in their report on the council, that she is unworthy to continue as a married woman. 'Before God and his an...

In Egypt's modern history, reform of personal status laws has often formed an integral part of political, cultural, and religious contestations amo...

We live in a world of one-size-fits-all law. People are different, but the laws that govern them are uniform. Personalized Law---rules that vary pe...

Throughout history, Islamic law--through its jurists, judges, and scholars--has addressed various social, economic, and cultural issues, and has of...

This book studies ideological divisions within Chinese legal academia and their relationship to arguments about the rule of law. The book describes...

Researchers have shed light on the literary production of the Ismailis since the early 1930s. The cataloguing of these work has been carried out by...

In this book, Omar Farahat presents a new way of understanding the work of classical Islamic theologians and legal theorists who maintained that di...

For over a century, intellectual property (IP) regimes have been justified using Western philosophical theories rooted in the idea that IP must rew...