Systems of Law

This book focuses on the main challenges that cities, regions and other territories at sub-national level face when it comes to designing and imple...

Peaceful legal and political changing of the guards is taken for granted in developed democracies, but is not evident everywhere. As a relatively n...

Can there be God-conscious organizational behaviour in the real world of todays capitalist corporations and the alternatives? In this overview of G...

Customary law and traditional authorities continue to play highly complex and contested roles in contemporary African states. Reversing the common ...

In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the events of 9/11, 7/7, the War on Terror and the Caliphate and atrocities of the so-called ...

A Muslim Reformist in Communist Yugoslavia examines the Islamic modernist thought of Husein ozo, a prominent Balkan scholar. Born at a time when th...

Dominant governance theories are drawn primarily from Euro-American sources, including emergent theories of network and collaborative governance. T...

This volume presents an analysis of controversial events and issues shaping a rapidly changing international legal, political, and social landscape...

Ludic Ubuntu Ethics develops a positive peace vision, taking a bold look at African and Indigenous justice practices and proposes new relational ju...

This book examines the contemporary significance of the Law and Economics movement.Drawing on anthropology, sociology, political economy, and ethic...

This book places context at the core of the Islamic mechanism of ift to better understand the process of issuing fatws in Muslim and non-Muslim cou...

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...