Systems of Law

This book traces the emergence and development of the idea of literal meaning in Islamic legal hermeneutics. Literal meaning is what a text means i...

In this study, Robert Reilly provides a careful and critical assessment of the prospects for dialogue between the Catholic Church and Islam. In par...

From property law to delict and unjustified enrichment, this textbook focuses on those areas of Roman law that have been most influential on Scots ...

Al centro di questo studio ci sono la comunità italica di Banzi, la colonia greca di Taranto ed i loro rispettivi statuti, incisi su bronzo nella p...

Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, a...

Agrippina the Younger held a unique position in the first Roman imperial family. As great niece of Tiberius, sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius a...

Pre-modern Muslim jurists drew a clear distinction between the nurturing and upkeep of children, or 'custody', and caring for the child's education...

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

Contempt of court has been aptly described as the Proteus of the legal world, assuming an almost infinite diversity of forms. Its central concern i...

The Reconciliation of the Fundamentals of Islamic Law or Al-Muwafaqat fi Usul al-Shari'a, written by Ibrahim ibn Musa Abu Isaq al-Shaibi, is an inn...

This is an interdisciplinary, edited collection on social science methodologies for approaching Roman legal sources. Roman law as a field of study ...

Blackstone''''s Civil Practice 2020: The Commentary is a concise version of Blackstone''''s Civil Practice, providing the unique commentary indepen...

The Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases are designed to provide a clear and logical framework for the assessm...

Companion website: www.oup.com/blackstones/civil Blackstone''s Civil Practice 2020 provides detailed commentary of unrivalled quality on the p...

The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable,...

The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable,...

This book provides for professionals, teachers and students involved in Russian law, by bringing together an overall and profound analysis of the p...