Systems of Law

This book presents the first full-scale study of the Tractatus de penitentia (C.33 q.3) in Gratians Decretum, which became the textbook for canon l...

CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we ...

Understanding the rules of procedure and the practices of medieval and early modern courts is of great importance for historians of every stripe. T...

The Hibernensis is the longest and most comprehensive canon-law text to have circulated in Carolingian Europe. Compiled in Ireland in the late seve...

The Hibernensis is the longest and most comprehensive canon-law text to have circulated in Carolingian Europe. Compiled in Ireland in the late seve...

Gratian the Theologian shows how one of the best-known canonists of the medieval period was also an accomplished theologian. Well into the twelfth ...

Cy-près doctrine, which allows the purpose of a failing or impractical charitable gift to be changed, has been understood since the eighteenth cent...

Gratians Decretum is one of the major works in European history, a text that in many ways launched the field of canon law. In this new volume, Atri...

Father Ignacio Gordon, SJ, taught canon law (the Catholic Church's law) from 1960 until 1985 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, with a...

An updated and expanded version of the original edition, published in 1998. That original edition went up through 1245. This new version extends to...

Cohabiting couples and those entering religious-only marriages all too often end up with inadequate legal protection when the relationship ends. Ye...

Imam Nawawi's commentary on Sahih Muslim is one of the most highly regarded works in Islamic thought and literature. Accepted by every sunni scho...

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 book develops a theoretical framework for examining and assessing the regulatory arrangements for medical products.Since the first half of the...

This book provides an original theoretically and empirically grounded analysis of regulatory enforcement activism in post-crises periods and the en...

An Introduction to the Soviet Legal System (1969) sets the main features of modern Soviet law against their background in Russian legal history and...