Comparative law Books

As the threats posed by organised crime and terrorism persist, law enforcement authorities remain under pressure to suppress the movement, or flows, of people and objects that are deemed dangerous. This collection provides a broad overview of the...

African legal realities reflect an intertwining of transnational, regional, and local normative frameworks, institutions, and practices that challenge the idea of the sovereign territorial state. This book analyses the novel constellations of governance...

Criminal defence at the investigative stage has attracted growing attention due to the shifting focus of the criminal process onto pre-trial stages, and the recent European regulations adopted in this area. Increasingly, justice practitioners and...

This book examines the national and international law, human rights and civil liberties issues involved in governments calling out the armed forces to deal with civil unrest or terrorism. The introduction of domestic military powers has become an...

This book provides an important critique of mental health law and practice in China, with a focus on involuntary detention and treatment. It will be of interest to those working in the areas of mental health law and policy, medical law and...

This book examines the relationship between man and nature through different cultural approaches to encourage new environmental legislation as a means of fostering acceptance at a local level.

The question of how Islamic law regulates the notions of just recourse to and just conduct in war has long been the topic of heated controversy, and is often subject to oversimplification in scholarship and journalism. This book traces the rationale for...

Turkey's accession to the European Union is undoubtedly one of the Union's most contested potential enlargements. The narrative that dominates the debate surrounding this issue primarily relates to problems such as a lack of respect for fundamental human...

Islam, Law and Identity brings together a range of Muslim and non Muslim scholars in order to focus on recent debates about the nature of sacred and secular law.

In recent years the Chinese legal system has undergone many reforms and this book brings the literature up to date, offering a contemporary account of the law and administration in China. This book is the result of collective efforts in analysing the...

How diverse cultures approach conflict in the context of the integration of global markets is a new arena for research and practice. To date, most of the research on international arbitration has focused exclusively on Western models of arbitration as...

Marginalized Communities and Access to Justice is a comparative study, by leading researchers in the field of law and justice, of the imperatives and constraints of access to justice among a number of marginalized communities. A central feature of the...

This collection focuses on the particular nexus of popular sovereignty and constitutional change, and the implications of the recent surge in populism for systems where constitutional change is directly decided upon by the people via referendum. It...

This book addresses the ethical and methodological issues that researchers face while conducting cross-cultural social research. With globalization and advanced means of communication and transportation, many researchers conduct research in...

""Introductio in Jus Digestorum"" est opus Justi Henning Bohmeri, professoris juris in Academia Hala-Saxoniae, quod anno MDCCIV editum est. In hoc libro, auctor introductivam doctrinam de Digestis, quae sunt pars juris civilis Romani, exponit. Bohmerius...

This book analyses collective punishment in the context of human rights law. Collective punishment is a concept deriving from the law of armed conflict. It describes the punishment of a group for an act allegedly committed by one of its members and is...

This book explores the politics of money laundering and terrorist financing regulation in several countries across Africa and the Small Island States. It advocates for a comprehensive understanding of the nuanced compliance challenges of developing...

What do different concepts like true lie, bad luck, honest thief, old news, spacetime, glocalization, symplexity, sustainable development, constant change, soft law, substantive due process, pure law, bureaucratic efficiency and global justice have in...

This book presents the case that liberal constitutionalism in the global South is a legacy of colonialism and is inappropriate as a means of securing effective peace in regions that have been subject to recurrent conflict. The work demonstrates the...

""Der Vergleich Nach Deutschem Burgerlichem Recht"" ist ein Buch, das 1898 von Richard Carl Wilhelm Lonnies ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es befasst sich mit dem Vergleich als Rechtsinstitut im deutschen b�����rgerlichen Recht. Das Buch bietet eine...

Das Buch ""Der Servus Fructuarius Des Romischen Rechts"" von Johannes Emil Kuntze aus dem Jahr 1889 besch�����ftigt sich mit dem r������mischen Recht und insbesondere mit dem sogenannten Servus Fructuarius. Dabei handelt es sich um einen Sklaven, der auf...

Das Buch ""Der Servitutenbegriff nach r������mischen und ������sterreichischem Recht"" von Julius Ofner, welches im Jahr 1884 ver������ffentlicht wurde, besch�����ftigt sich mit dem Rechtsbegriff der Servituten im r������mischen und ������sterreichischen...

Das Buch ""Der Revidirte Entwurf Eines Burgerlichen Gesetzbuchs: Fur Das Konigreich Sachsen (1861)"" von Unger, Josef ist eine umfassende Darstellung des �����berarbeiteten Entwurfs des b�����rgerlichen Gesetzbuchs f�����r das K������nigreich Sachsen...

Das Buch ""Der R������misch-Rechtliche Begriff Der Naturalobligation: Im Schweizerischen Obligationenrecht Unter Ber�����cksichtigung Anderer Moderner Gesetzgebungen (1892)"" von Eugen Meyer behandelt den r������misch-rechtlichen Begriff der...

""Der Ruckfall des Eigenthums im r������mischen Rechte"" ist ein Werk des deutschen Juristen Julius Engelmann, das erstmals 1868 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit der Entwicklung des r������mischen Rechts in Bezug auf das...

Das Buch ""Der Raufhandel Mit Berucksichtigung Des Franzos Und Schweizer Rechts"" wurde im Jahr 1891 von Robert Marti ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Untersuchung des Rechtsstreits im Zusammenhang mit K������rperverletzungen und...

Le livre ""De La Peche En Droit Romain Et Dans Le Droit International Actuel (1885)"" de Joseph Imbart De La Tour est une �����tude approfondie de la p������che dans le droit romain et dans le droit international contemporain. L'auteur examine les lois...

Le livre intitul����� ""Etude sur la transaction : en droit romain et en droit fran�����ais (1863)"" est �����crit par Calixte Accarias. Ce livre est une �����tude approfondie de la transaction en droit romain et en droit fran�����ais. L'auteur examine...

Criminal Justice in the United States is in the midst of momentous changes: an era of low crime rates not seen since the 1960s, and a variety of budget crunches also exerting profound impacts on the system. This is the first book available to chronicle...

Article 226 EC is the central mechanism of enforcement in the EC Treaty, and has remained unchanged since the original Treaty of Rome. It provides the European Commission, as guardian of the Treaty, with a broad power of policing Member States' conduct...

This book takes stock of the development of EU criminal law from the establishment of the ECSC to the first European Union criminal law directives passed after the Lisbon Treaty. The work considers criminal offences established at EU level, the effects...

<p><strong>Dive into the intellectual battleground of economic fallacies with Frederic Bastiat's <em>Economic Sophisms.</em></strong></p> <p>Bastiat unveils the deceptive rhetoric and flawed logic behind common...

""Dell'Autorit������ dei Responsa Prudentium: nel Diritto Romano"" ����� un libro scritto da Pietro Rossi nel 1886. Questo testo tratta dell'autorit������ dei Responsa Prudentium, ovvero delle risposte fornite dai giuristi romani alle domande poste loro...

""Del Territorio Nelle Sue Attinenze Colla Legge Penale"" ����� un libro scritto da Raffaele Schiattarella nel 1879. In questo testo, l'autore esplora il rapporto tra il territorio e la legge penale, analizzando le implicazioni giuridiche e sociali della...

Il libro ""Dei Fidecommessi E Delle Sostituzioni: Nel Diritto Civile Italiano"" scritto da Cuturi, Torquato nel 1889 ����� una trattazione completa sul tema dei fidecommessi e delle sostituzioni nel diritto civile italiano. Il testo analizza in modo...

""De Zondag In Het Nederlandsche Privaatrecht"" is een boek geschreven door Foeke Foekens en gepubliceerd in 1888. Het boek behandelt de juridische aspecten van de zondagsrust in het Nederlandse privaatrecht, met name in relatie tot arbeidsovereenkomsten...

Le livre ""De La Detention Preventive Et De La Celerite: Dans Les Procedures Criminelles En France Et En Angleterre (1862)"" de Bertrand, Julien Marie Ernest est une �����tude comparative de la proc�����dure p�����nale en France et en Angleterre...

Le livre ""De La Cause Dans Les Contrats Et Les Obligations En Droit Romain Et En Droit Francais: Etude Critique"" �����crit par Joseph Timbal en 1882, est une �����tude approfondie sur la notion de cause dans les contrats et les obligations en droit...

Specimen Juridicum Inaugurale De Eo: Quatenus Feminarum Conditio Cum Jure Romano, Tum Jure Hodierno Melior'sit, Quam Illa Marium (1829) est liber a Gerardo Schimmelpenninck scriptus, qui tractat de conditione feminarum in jure Romano et hodierno. In hoc...

This book analyses the development of anti-corruption as a policy field in the European Union with a particular focus on the EU Anti-Corruption Report. It reconstructs the origins of anti-corruption policy in the 1990s when the EU started to recognise...

This book examines major conceptual challenges confronting freedom of religion or belief in contemporary settings.The volume brings together chapters by leading experts from law, religious studies, and international relations, who provide perspectives...

This book examines the law reforms of contemporary China in light of the Party-state's ideological transformation and the political economy that shapes these reforms. This involves analysing three interrelated domains: law reform, power and wealth. The...

Cet ouvrage nous détaille les différentes composantes du droit civil scandinave, offrant une approche comparative qui permet de mieux comprendre la spécificité de chaque système juridique. Écrit par deux spécialistes, ce livre constitue une référence...

Commentario Alle Pandette is an essential reference work for students and scholars of Roman law. This fourth part covers a wide range of topics, including obligations, succession, and guardianship.This work has been selected by scholars as being...

In the last 20 years, the related phenomena of honour-based violence and forced marriages have received increasing attention at the international and European level. Punitive responses towards this type of violence have been adopted, including ad hoc...

This book provides a stocktake and comparative socio-legal analysis of law enforcement cooperation strategies in four different regions of the world: the European Union (EU), North America, Greater China and Australasia. The work analyses law enforcement...

This book examines how the judicialization of politics, and the politicization of courts, affect representative democracy, rule of law, and separation of powers. This volume critically assesses the phenomena of judicialization of politics and...

This book provides transnational insight into cultural property crimes and the cutting-edge work tackling issues ranging from currency crimes to innovative research methods.The volume brings together authors from a number of fields to address...