Comparative category: 2220 books
French Law
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The second edition of French Law: A Comparative Approach provides an authoritative, comprehensive, and up to date account of the French legal system and its internal workings. It sets out the institutional frameworks, substantive law, and methodologies that underpin the system, and provides expert...
The International Criminal Court and Nigeria
Implementing the Complementarity Principle of the Rome Statute
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
If Nigeria fails to prosecute the crimes recognised under the Rome Statute, then the International Criminal Court (ICC) will intervene. The ICC is only expected to complement the criminal justice system in Nigeria and is not a court of first instance, but one of last resort. This is what is known...
Law and Politics of Constitutional Courts
Indonesia and the Search for Judicial Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book critically evaluates different models of judicial leadership in Indonesia to examine the impact that individual chief justices can have on the development of constitutional courts. It explores the importance of this leadership as a factor explaining the dynamic of judicial power. Drawing...
by Yuwen Li
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Administrative litigation systems are a rapidly developing legal field in many countries. This book provides a comparative study of the administrative litigation systems in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao, as well as a number of selected European countries that covers both states with an advanced...
The Unity of Public Law?
Doctrinal, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This major collection contains selected papers from the second Public Law Conference, an international conference hosted by the University of Cambridge in September 2016. The collection includes contributions by leading academics and judges from across the common law world, including senior judges...
Public Sentinels
A Comparative Study of Australian Solicitors-General
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In recent years, controversy has surrounded the role of top government lawyers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Allegations of bad lawyering and bad ethics in public office over the ’torture memos’ in the United States and the political pressure placed on the Attorney-General in the...
Constitutions in the Global Financial Crisis
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This book is the first to address the multi-faceted influence of the global financial crisis on the national constitutions of the countries most affected. By tracing the impact of the crisis on formal and informal constitutional change, sovereignty issues, fundamental rights protection, regulatory...
The Quest for Constitutionalism
South Africa since 1994
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This volume provides a timely assessment on the progress made towards the achievement of a constitutional democracy in South Africa. The chapters collectively present an in-depth analysis of the development of the legal system and of the implications of the Constitution for the social configuration...
Fundamental Rights and Private Law in Europe
The Case of Tort Law and Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
The book explores, from a comparative and inter-disciplinary perspective, the relationship between fundamental rights and private law in Europe, a debate usually referred to as Drittwirkung or ‘horizontal effect of fundamental rights’. It discusses the different models of ‘horizontal effect’...
Conflict of Laws: A Comparative Approach
Text and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The Conflict of Laws, also known as private international law, is a field of the greatest importance in an increasingly globalized world. The analysis of any legal issue, in a case involving more than one country, must start with an assessment of which court could potentially hear the case and which law it would apply
Commitment and Cooperation on High Courts
A Cross-Country Examination of Institutional Constraints on Judges
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Judicial decision-making may ideally be impartial, but in reality it is influenced by many different factors, including institutional context, ideological commitment, fellow justices on a panel, and personal preference. Empirical literature in this area increasingly analyzes this complex collection...
Colombian Constitutional Law
Leading Cases
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This book provides in English the case law of the Colombian Constitutional Court, which has become one of the most creative and important courts of the global south and the world since its creation in 1991. It offers concise and carefully chosen extracts of the Court's most important cases, along...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
To what extent is the language of judicial opinions responsive to the political and social context in which constitutional courts operate? Courts are reason-giving institutions, with argumentation playing a central role in constitutional adjudication. However, a cursory look at just a handful of constitutional...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book examines the issues of crime and its control in the twenty-first century - an era of human history where people live in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world - providing invaluable and first-hand readings for undergraduate and postgradate students.