Comparative category: 2220 books
Regimes of Happiness
Comparative and Historical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
'Regimes of Happiness' is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment, determining divergent moral, ethical and religious traditions, and incommensurate and conflicting understanding of the meaning of the ‘good...
Accommodating Muslims under Common Law
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The book explores the relationship between Muslims, the Common Law and Sharīʽah post-9/11. The book looks at the accommodation of Sharīʽah Law within Western Common Law legal traditions and the role of the judiciary, in particular, in drawing boundaries for secular democratic states with Muslim...
Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference
Commentary, Conflict, and Community in the Premodern Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Jews, Christians, and Muslims all have a common belief in the sanctity of a core holy scripture, and commentary on scripture (exegesis) was at the heart of all three traditions in the Middle Ages. At the same time, because it dealt with issues such as the nature of the canon, the limits of acceptable...
Cross-Border Law Enforcement
Regional Law Enforcement Cooperation – European, Australian and Asia-Pacific Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This innovative volume explores issues of law enforcement cooperation across borders from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. In doing so it adopts a comparative framework hitherto unexplored; namely the EU and the Australsian/Asia-Pacific region whose relative geopolitical remoteness from each...
The Law and Economics of Enforcing European Consumer Law
A Comparative Analysis of Package Travel and Misleading Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In the internet age, the need for effective consumer law enforcement has arguably never been greater. This timely book is a comparative law and economic analysis of the changing landscape of EU consumer law enforcement policy. EU member states are moving away from purely public or private law enforcement...
Eminent Domain
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
The taking of private property for development projects has caused controversy in many nations, where it has often been used to benefit powerful interests at the expense of the general public. This edited collection is the first to use a common framework to analyze the law and economics of eminent...
Global Cities and Immigrants
A Comparative Study of Chicago and Madrid
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Global Cities and Immigrants provides a detailed set of comparative case studies of the immigration policies of two global cities undergoing dramatic demographic changes. At the heart of this research are several theoretical questions. One is about the increased importance of municipal and local governments...
Concepts of Law
Comparative, Jurisprudential, and Social Science Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Debates surrounding the concept of law are not new. For a wide variety of reasons and in a wide variety of ways, the meaning of 'law' has long been an important part of Western thought, both within legal scholarship and beyond. The contributors to Concepts of Law are international experts from the...
by Alexander Vereshchagin
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
A novel and incisive investigation of the role of judicial precedents and customs in Russian law, this book examines the trends in the development of judge-made law in Russian civil law since the demise of the Soviet Union.
Exploring the interrelated propositions that a certain creative element...
General Principles of Law
European and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Examining general principles of law provides one of the most instructive examples of the intersection between EU law and comparative law. This collection draws on the expertise of high-profile and distinguished scholars to provide a critical examination of this interaction. It shows how general principles...
Cultural Law
International, Comparative, and Indigenous
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Cultural law is a new and exciting field of study and practice. The core themes of linguistic and other cultural rights, cultural heritage, traditional crafts and knowledge, the performing arts, sports, and religion are of fundamental importance to people around the world, engaging them at the grass...
The Struggle for European Private Law
A Critique of Codification
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
The European codification project has rapidly gathered pace since the turn of the century. This monograph considers the codification project in light of a series of broader analytical frameworks – comparative, historical and constitutional – which make modern codification phenomena intelligible....
Judicial Dissent in European Constitutional Courts
A Comparative and Legal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Dissent in courts has always existed. It is natural and healthy that judges disagree on legal issues of a certain importance and difficulty. The question is if it is reasonable to conceal dissent. Not every legal system allows judges to explain their disagreement to the public in a separate opinion...
Property and Sovereignty
Legal and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book explores the relationships between property and the concept of sovereignty from a number of different perspectives. It distinguishes between the dual meaning of 'sovereignty' in property discourse - political sovereignty and owner sovereignty. The contributors discuss the nature of sovereignty...