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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Schleiermacher maintained that «to make proselytes out of unbelievers is deeply engrained in the character of religion.» But why do religions proselytize? Do all religions seek conversions? How are religions adapting their proclamations in a deeply plural world? This book provides a detailed analysis...
by Victor Ogundare
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
This is a research work on the religion philosophies of Christianity and Islam that affect every human lives on earth. This comparative analysis of religion dogmas and practices exposes the inherent truth about the religions of monotheism. We also need to learn the inspiration behind the ideology...
The Santillana Codes
The Civil Codes of Tunisia, Morocco, and Mauritania
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This book examines the Santillana Codes, legal instruments which form a distinct class of uniquely African civil code and are still in force today in a legal arc that extends from the Maghreb to the Sahel. Stigall presents the history of Santillana’s seminal legislative effort and provides a comparative...
Contract Law
A Comparative Introduction, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This innovative and accessible text offers a straightforward and clear introduction to the law of contract suitable for use across geographical boundaries. It introduces the key principles of contract law by comparing solutions from different jurisdictions and has an innovative design with text boxes,...
Labour Relations in the Motor Industry
A Study of Industrial Unrest and an International Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book, originally published in 1967, takes the automobile industry experience as a basis for a wider view of industrial relations, trends and developments of the 1950s and 60s. The study also analyses the emergence of new institutions and systems of labour-management relationships. It contains...
General Defences in Criminal Law
Domestic and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The law relating to general defences is one of the most important areas in the criminal law, yet the current state of the law in the United Kingdom reveals significant problems in the adoption of a consistent approach to their doctrinal and theoretical underpinnings, as exemplified by a number of...
Re-Imagining Offshore Finance
Market-Dominant Small Jurisdictions in a Globalizing Financial World
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Small jurisdictions have become significant players in cross-border corporate and financial services. Their nature, legal status, and market roles, however, remain under-theorized. Lacking a sufficiently nuanced framework to describe their functions in cross-border finance - and the peculiar strengths...
EU and US Competition Law: Divided in Unity?
The Rule on Restrictive Agreements and Vertical Intra-brand Restraints
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book examines the structure of the rule on restrictive agreements in the context of vertical intra-brand price and territorial restraints, analysing, comparing and evaluating their treatment in US antitrust and EU competition law. It examines the concept of 'agreement' as the threshold question...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This edited volume addresses the dynamics of the legal system of Myanmar/Burma in the context of the dramatic but incomplete transition to democracy that formally began in 2011. It includes contributions from leading scholars in the field on a range of key legal issues now facing Myanmar, such as...
Due Process of Lawmaking
The United States, South Africa, Germany, and the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
With nuanced perspective and detailed case studies, Due Process of Lawmaking explores the law of lawmaking in the United States, South Africa, Germany, and the European Union. This comparative work deals broadly with public policymaking in the legislative and executive branches. It frames the inquiry...
The Future of Contract Law in Latin America
The Principles of Latin American Contract Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This book presents, analyses and evaluates the Principles of Latin American Contract Law (PLACL), a recent set of provisions aiming at the harmonisation of contract law at a regional level. As such, the PLACL are the most recent exponent of the many proposals for transnational sets of 'principles...
Well-Known Trade Marks
A Comparative Study of Japan and the EU
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
This book considers the effectiveness of well-known trade mark protection at an international level. It particularly considers EU trade mark law from Japanese perspectives, and provides a practical and critical overview of trade mark law in Japan, including the historical development of the law and...
Drugs Law and Legal Practice in Southeast Asia
Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Drugs Law and Legal Practice in Southeast Asia investigates criminal law and practice relevant to drugs regulation in three Southeast Asian jurisdictions: Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam.
These jurisdictions represent a spectrum of approaches to drug regulation in Southeast Asia, highlighting...
by Mark Freedland FBA, Nicola Kountouris
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This book explores the conceptual framework of European employment law, focusing on understanding the law's construction of employment relationships. The book draws on extensive comparative research of the legal architecture of employment relations in national legal systems and EU law to analyse the...