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This book provides a practical, functional comparison among various institutions, tools, implementation practices and norms in environmental law across legal cultures.

This is a new approach that focuses on the act of comparison, looking at legal practice, from the ground up, including the perspective of citizens. Most literature on comparative environmental law either focuses on a two-way comparison of state jurisdictions or simply juxtaposes environmental features of two or more state jurisdictions without engaging in any analysis of the comparison. However, this book treats legal cultures as the objects of comparison as it provides practical comparisons among various institutions, tools and norms in environmental law. The arrangement and organisation of the material reverses the more traditional presentation of comparative environmental law as a series of countries within which separate descriptions are respectively presented. In this book the reader is presented with environmental legal themes, with examples and case studies drawn from various cultures that are compared in order to help understand the theme. Case studies draw on the authors’ experiences in a range of legal cultures, including in Australia, Brazil, China, Chile, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Nigeria, Slovakia, and the USA. The comparative nature of the book allows domestic professionals to develop skills to enable them to understand and advocate broader contexts for clients, and helps students become more aware of specific legal systems while questioning why their own system functions (or does not function) as it does.

The book is aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of environmental law as well as researchers and practitioners.

This book provides a practical, functional comparison among various institutions, tools, implementation practices and norms in environmental law across legal cultures.

This is a new approach that focuses on the act of comparison, looking at legal practice, from the ground up, including the perspective of citizens. Most literature on comparative environmental law either focuses on a two-way comparison of state jurisdictions or simply juxtaposes environmental features of two or more state jurisdictions without engaging in any analysis of the comparison. However, this book treats legal cultures as the objects of comparison as it provides practical comparisons among various institutions, tools and norms in environmental law. The arrangement and organisation of the material reverses the more traditional presentation of comparative environmental law as a series of countries within which separate descriptions are respectively presented. In this book the reader is presented with environmental legal themes, with examples and case studies drawn from various cultures that are compared in order to help understand the theme. Case studies draw on the authors’ experiences in a range of legal cultures, including in Australia, Brazil, China, Chile, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Nigeria, Slovakia, and the USA. The comparative nature of the book allows domestic professionals to develop skills to enable them to understand and advocate broader contexts for clients, and helps students become more aware of specific legal systems while questioning why their own system functions (or does not function) as it does.

The book is aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of environmental law as well as researchers and practitioners.

Das Handbuch US-Rechtspraxis wendet sich sowohl an deutsche Anwälte als auch an international tätige Unternehmen, die mit dem US-amerikanischen Recht in der Praxis in Berührung kommen. Thematisch umfasst die Darstellung die wesentlichen Grundzüge des US-amerikanischen Prozess- und Vertragsrechts. Darüber hinaus beinhaltet dieses Werk weitere wichtige Fachgebiete wie das Umweltrecht und das Seerecht sowie neue Rechtsgebiete wie das Lebensmittelrecht. Zahlreiche Formulierungsmuster und Praxistipps unterstützen bei der Anwendung und Umsetzung.

Praktizierende Experten erläutern die private, öffentliche und strafrechtliche Rechtspraxis in den USA. Zahlreiche Beispiele, konkrete Praxistipps und Checklisten sowie die Übersetzung aller wichtigen Rechtsbegriffe in die deutsche und französische Sprache bieten ideale Orientierung.Aus dem Inhalt Chapter 1: US Law as Foreign Law (Kirk W. Junker)Chapter 2: Federal Civil Litigation (Steven F. Baicker-McKee)Chapter 3: Civil Procedure Brief Drafting Strategy (Heidi K. Brown)Chapter 4: U.S. Arbitration Law and Practice (Katherine M. Simpson)Chapter 5: Aspects of United States Application of International Maritime Law: A Focus on Jurisdictional, Procedural and Substantive Issues Unique to the US SystemChapter 6: Contracts—Drafting and Content (Keith E. Wilder)Chapter 7: The Back to Back Contract. The Birth of a New Contract Type (Antonio Lordi)Chapter 8: Confidential Information and Restrictive Covenants in Employment (Patrick Sorek)Chapter 9: Income Taxation and Audits (P. Matthew Roy)Chapter 10: The U.S.’ Charitable Sector: Nonprofit Organizations (Ryan Kraski)Chapter 11: Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement in the United States: An Introduction (Jacob H. Rooksby)Chapter 12: Food Law: Implementing Food Sovereignty in Local Sustainable Food Systems (Gabriela Steier)Chapter 13: Issues of United States Immigration Law – A View from the Inside (Katherine M. Simpson)Chapter 14: Issues of US Environmental Law Encountered from Abroad (Kirk W. Junker)Chapter 15: White Collar Crime (Barbara Carlin)

Das Handbuch US-Rechtspraxis wendet sich sowohl an deutsche Anwälte als auch an international tätige Unternehmen, die mit dem US-amerikanischen Recht in der Praxis in Berührung kommen. Thematisch umfasst die Darstellung die wesentlichen Grundzüge des US-amerikanischen Prozess- und Vertragsrechts. Darüber hinaus beinhaltet dieses Werk weitere wichtige Fachgebiete wie das Umweltrecht und das Seerecht sowie neue Rechtsgebiete wie das Lebensmittelrecht. Zahlreiche Formulierungsmuster und Praxistipps unterstützen bei der Anwendung und Umsetzung.