Systems of Law

At the beginning of 2020, the Polish justice system faced unprecedented challenge related to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The need to red...

This book arises from a cybersecurity conference at the University of Adelaide attended by a group of government and academic experts. It presents ...

This ground-breaking volume examines enduring and emerging discourses around communication rights in Africa, arguing that they should be considered...

Sharia-compliance is the raison detre of Islamic banks. All of their instruments and activities should be based on sharia principles, which unfortu...

This book explores the various issues that characterise the African mining sector, drawing examples from different African countries and regional o...

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15...

Faced with evolving trade and health dynamics, this book presents a historical, conceptual, and empirical examination of public health and medical ...

This book aims to present a picture of one of the worlds leading credit rating agencies. Credited as being the first credit rating agency, Moodys s...

What is a contract in Islam? Is it an aspect of Muslim religion or of secular life? How much has it changed over the centuries? Undertaking a searc...

In Muslim countries, apostasy and blasphemy laws are defended on the grounds that they are based on Islamic Sharia and intended to protect religion...

Taking an inter-disciplinary approach which straddles law, anthropology sociology and women's studies, Mir-Hosseini shows how women can turn even t...

Pleadings Without Tears has become established as one of the most successful books on practical legal drafting in the context of litigation. This n...

Economic diplomacy is a multifaceted tool that European countries, both individually and collectively through the EU, use to promote their economic...

This collection investigates the conflictual relationship between the Islamic world and Western civilization, looking at its history as key to unde...

Embark on a journey through the various stages of life, from marriage to divorceand widowhood, to witness how women living within the Islamic tradi...

The publication of The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, Ninth-Tenth Centuries C.E., first as a University of Pennsylvania doctoral dissertati...

In den kommenden Jahren läuft eine große Zahl von Konzessionsverträgen aus. Die zweite Auflage des Praxishandbuchs stellt die Rechtslage nach aktue...

This book is the first historical analysis of those parts of Islamic legal theory that deal with the language of revelation, and a milestone in rec...

This book discusses in detail how medieval scholars reacted to the casuistic discussions in the inherited Roman texts, particularly the Digest of J...

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 ...

The number one best-selling legal skills guide, covering all the practical and academic skills a student needs throughout their studies. Legal Skil...

Within the global phenomenon of the (re)emergence of religion into issues of public debate, one of the most salient issues confronting contemporary...

This book explores the contentious topic of womens rights in Muslim-majority countries, with a specific focus on Iran and the Iranian womens moveme...

Advancing legal scholarship in the area of mixed legal systems, as well as comparative law more generally, this book expands the comparative study ...

A study and revision guide for Scots law students of Roman law'Roman Law Essentials' provides a clear overview of the structure of Roman government...

Now available in paperback for the first time, this book examines trials, civil and criminal, ecclesiastical and secular, in England and Europe bet...

Can Islamic finance save the global system? Islamic Finance and the New Financial System describes how the adoption of Islamic finance principles ...

This book studies an overarching question of the challenges faced by Chinese lawmakers, Chinese listed companies, Chinese companies external advise...

Human Rights and Reformist Islam' critiques traditional Islamic approaches to the question of compatibility between human rights and Islam, and arg...