Comparative Law

Contingency planning and resilience are of prime importance to the late modern risk state, with implications for law and for governance arrangements. This book seeks to analyse and criticise the legal developments in contingencies and resilience on a comparative basis, which engages with not only la..

Contingency planning and resilience are of prime importance to the late modern risk state, with implications for law and for governance arrangements. This book seeks to analyse and criticise the legal developments in contingencies and resilience on a comparative basis, which engages with not only la..

The book examines how institutions of multi-ethnic states have been designed to accommodate ethnic diversity and maintain national unity. It locates institutional responses to the challenges of ethnic diversity within the context of a federal arrangement, examining how this has been used to reconcil..

The book examines how institutions of multi-ethnic states have been designed to accommodate ethnic diversity and maintain national unity. It locates institutional responses to the challenges of ethnic diversity within the context of a federal arrangement, examining how this has been used to reconcil..

This book approaches law as a process embedded in the transnational personal, religious, communicative and economic relationships that mediate between international, national and local practices, their norms and values. Through the lens of a variety of important contemporary subjects, the authors en..

Italian Private Law provides an excellent overview and analysis of Italian private law and its transition from the early twentieth century legal tradition to a system based on constitutional values, geared towards European integration...

This book presents a comparative analysis of the practice of judicial dissent in constitutional courts. It discusses the theoretical background, presents the history of the institution and today’s practice, thus laying down the basis for an accurate consideration of the phenomenon...

The rich field of urban law has thus far lacked a holistic and concerted scholarly focus on comparative and global perspectives. This work offers new inroads into the global and comparative streams within urban law by presenting emerging frameworks and approaches to topics ranging from urban housing..

Legal lexicography or jurilexicography is the most neglected aspect of the discipline of jurilinguistics, despite its great relevance for translators, academics and comparative lawyers. This volume bridges this gap by bringing together contributions from ten jurisdictions from leading experts in the..

This collection examines the interaction of the relevant legal regime, regulatory framework and disciplinary rules with the behaviour of litigants, courts and legislatures. The book examines subjects such as cost rules, funding arrangements and their influence on the behaviour of litigants, courts a..

This book takes us far beyond the usual focus of comparative law with analysis of a broad range of jurisdictions, including mixtures of common and civil law, and also those mixing Islamic and/or traditional legal systems with those derived from common and/or civil law traditions. The discussion is s..

This book introduces and explores the concept of multilingual law. It provides an overview as to what is 'multilingual law', the various types, what this means in theory and practice and how such systems function...