Comparative category: 2220 books
by Mads Andenas, MA DPhil PhD, Frank Wooldridge
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Company law is undergoing fundamental change in Europe. All European countries have undertaken extensive reform of their company legislation. Domestic reform has traditionally been driven by corporate failures or scandals. Initiatives to make corporate governance more effective are a feature of recent...
Not-for-Profit Law
Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
The law and policy applicable to the not-for-profit sector is of growing importance around the world. In this book, legal experts address fundamental questions about not-for-profit law from a range of theoretical and comparative perspectives. The essays provide scholarly analysis of not-for-profit...
by Nevil Johnson, Allan Cochrane
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Originally published in 1981 but now with a new preface, this volume provided the first detailed comparative analysis of how local authorities in the UK and W. Germany faced up to the challenge of trying to help local industry and improve employment prospects. Based on the results of case-studies...
Contracts in the People’s Republic of China
An outline of the Chinese law from the perspective of Europe and Hong-Kong
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
A complete and well-documented review of contract law in China.
This in-depth introduction to the law of contracts of Mainland China was written for Western lawyers who have contacts with the People’s Republic of China, for scholars and students of comparative law or of Sinology. As stated...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
The decade after 11 September 2001 saw the enactment of counter-terrorism laws around the world. These laws challenged assumptions about public institutions, human rights and constitutional law. Those challenges are particularly apparent in the context of the increased surveillance powers granted...
Making Anti-Racial Discrimination Law
A Comparative History of Social Action and Anti-Racial Discrimination Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Making Anti-Racial Discrimination Law examines the evolution of anti-racial discrimination law from a socio-legal perspective. Taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book does not simply look at race and society or race and law but brings these areas together by drawing out the tension...
Varieties of African American Religious Experience
Toward a Comparative Black Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Twenty years ago, Anthony Pinn‘s engrossing survey highlighted the rich diversity of black religious life in America, revealing expressions of an ever-changing black religious quest in four non-Christian religious movements. Based on extensive research, travel, and interviews--and embellished with...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
We can only claim to understand another legal system when we know the context surrounding the positive law in which lawyers are trained. To avoid ethnocentricity and superficiality, we must go beyond judicial decisions, doctrinal writings and the black-letter law of codes and statutes and probe the...
by Firat Cengiz
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The EU and the US are the preeminent examples of multi-level polities and both have highly developed competition policies. Despite these similarities however, recent developments suggest that they are moving in different directions in the area of antitrust federalism. This book examines multi-level...
Regulating the Visible Hand?
The Institutional Implications of Chinese State Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
The economic and geopolitical implications of China's rise have been the subject of vast commentary. However, the institutional implications of China's transformative development under state capitalism have not been examined extensively and comprehensively. Regulating the Visible Hand? The Institutional...
Gifts
A Study in Comparative Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law is the first broad-based study of the law governing the giving and revocation of gifts ever attempted. Gift-giving is everywhere governed by social and customary norms before it encounters the law and the giving of gifts takes place largely outside of the marketplace....
Vicarious Liability in Tort
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Vicarious liability is controversial: a principle of strict liability in an area dominated by fault-based liability. By making an innocent party pay compensation for the torts of another, it can also appear unjust. Yet it is a principle found in all Western legal systems, be they civil law or common...
Comparative Development Experiences of Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia
An Institutional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Title first publishedin 2003. This comprehensive book focuses on the prevailing conditions in Asia and Africa under various macroeconomic and sectoral themes in order to provide in depth explanations for the divergent development experiences of the two regions. Seeking to go further than the simple...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
David Ricardo’s theories have been widely studied and discussed, including the prominent theory on comparative advantage. Ricardo and International Trade looks at the ongoing renaissance of the Ricardian international trade theory. The book’s interpretation brings fresh insights into and new developments...