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Law and Political Economy in China
The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth
Inbunden, 2023
1645 kr
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Applying a novel theoretical approach, Tamar Groswald Ozery combines law and political economy to deconstruct the role of law in China's market development since 1978. The book examines how economic and administrative powers within China's Party-state system have been legally and politically …
Proportionality and Transformation
Theory and Practice from Latin America
Av Francisca Pou-Giménez, Laura Clérico m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1573 kr
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This is the first book on proportionality in Latin American constitutional law. Leading scholars in the region explore how proportionality analysis has become a key part of the constitutional law of a region where, almost paradoxically, constitutions with clear transformative intentions coexist …
Separation of Powers and Antitrust
Inbunden, 2023
1645 kr
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Separation of powers and antitrust deal with power and occupy centre stage in our challenging, digital times, but their interactions have not yet been analysed. This timely and ground-breaking book provides an innovative cross-disciplinary analysis of the potential convergence of these two fields. …
Misuses of Comparative Law in International Development
Inbunden, 2026
1547 kr
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Misuses of Comparative Law in International Development examines how comparative law has been deployed by international organizations, governments, and NGOs to legitimize legal reforms that entrench inequality and reinforce power hierarchies. These reforms often align development agendas with …
Misuses of Comparative Law in International Development
Häftad, 2026
486 kr
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Misuses of Comparative Law in International Development examines how comparative law has been deployed by international organizations, governments, and NGOs to legitimize legal reforms that entrench inequality and reinforce power hierarchies. These reforms often align development agendas with …
Constitution-Building After the Arab Spring
A Comparative Perspective
Inbunden, 2025
1513 kr
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How were post-Arab Spring constitutions drafted? What are the most significant elements of continuity and change within the new constitutional texts? What purposes are these texts designed to serve? To what extent have constitutional provisions been enforced? Have the principles of …
Inter-Asian Law
Av Matthew S. Erie, Ching-Fu Lin
Häftad, 2026
456 kr
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What happens when Western law is no longer the default referent for legal modernity? This is a deceptively simple question, but its implications are significant for such fields as comparative law, international law, and law and development. Whereas much of comparative law is predicated on the idea …
Inter-Asian Law
Av Matthew S. Erie, Ching-Fu Lin
Inbunden, 2026
1513 kr
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What happens when Western law is no longer the default referent for legal modernity? This is a deceptively simple question, but its implications are significant for such fields as comparative law, international law, and law and development. Whereas much of comparative law is predicated on the idea …
National Security Secrecy
Comparative Effects on Democracy and the Rule of Law
Av Sudha Setty
Inbunden, 2017
1138 kr
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Excessive government secrecy in the name of counterterrorism has had a corrosive effect on democracy and the rule of law. In the United States, when controversial national security programs were run by the Bush and Obama administrations - including in areas of targeted killings, torture, …
Ruling the Law
Legitimacy and Failure in Latin American Legal Systems
Inbunden, 2019
1612 kr
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The North-South global divide is as much about perception and prejudice as it is about economic disparities. Latin America is no less ruled by hegemonic misrepresentations of its national legal systems. The European image of its laws mostly upholds legal legitimacy and international comity. By …
Prosecutors and Democracy
A Cross-National Study
Av Máximo Langer, David Alan Sklansky
Inbunden, 2017
1813 kr
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Focusing on the relationship between prosecutors and democracy, this volume throws light on key questions about prosecutors and the role they should play in liberal self-government. Internationally distinguished scholars discuss how prosecutors can strengthen democracy, how they sometimes undermine …
National Security Secrecy
Comparative Effects on Democracy and the Rule of Law
Av Sudha Setty
Häftad, 2017
498 kr
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Excessive government secrecy in the name of counterterrorism has had a corrosive effect on democracy and the rule of law. In the United States, when controversial national security programs were run by the Bush and Obama administrations - including in areas of targeted killings, torture, …
Comparing Law
Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments
Häftad, 2018
542 kr
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The enterprise of comparative law is familiar, yet its conceptual whereabouts remain somewhat obscure. Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments reconstructs comparative law scholarship into a systematic account of comparative law as an autonomous academic …
Comparing Law
Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments
Inbunden, 2018
1438 kr
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The enterprise of comparative law is familiar, yet its conceptual whereabouts remain somewhat obscure. Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments reconstructs comparative law scholarship into a systematic account of comparative law as an autonomous academic …
Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts
A Global Perspective
Av Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Shari Seidman Diamond m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1648 kr
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Although most countries around the world use professional judges, they also rely on lay citizens, untrained in the law, to decide criminal cases. The participation of lay citizens helps to incorporate community perspectives into legal outcomes and to provide greater legitimacy for the legal system …
Rediscovery and Revival in Islamic Environmental Law
Back to the Future of Nature's Trust
Inbunden, 2021
1648 kr
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The common ground between religions could be fruitfully promoted in order to call for an effective protection of the climate system. Positioned at a junction of different worlds, this book is a multidisciplinary work on Islamic law, common law and environmental law. Looking at the past, present and …
European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy
Inbunden, 2020
1648 kr
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This book brings together research on democratization processes and constitutional justice by examining the role of three generations of European constitutional courts in the transitions to democracy that took place in Europe in the twentieth century. Using a comparative perspective, the author …
Evaluation of Evidence
Pre-Modern and Modern Approaches
Inbunden, 2018
1648 kr
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Judges were never bound by law to convict a defendant unless they considered him guilty. Yet, they could be prohibited by law from convicting a person they consider guilty due to the absence of legally prescribed or the presence of legally prohibited evidence. Evaluation of Evidence addresses the …
European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy
Häftad, 2022
389 kr
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This book brings together research on democratization processes and constitutional justice by examining the role of three generations of European constitutional courts in the transitions to democracy that took place in Europe in the twentieth century. Using a comparative perspective, the author …
Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts
A Global Perspective
Av Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Shari Seidman Diamond m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
529 kr
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Although most countries around the world use professional judges, they also rely on lay citizens, untrained in the law, to decide criminal cases. The participation of lay citizens helps to incorporate community perspectives into legal outcomes and to provide greater legitimacy for the legal system …
Rediscovery and Revival in Islamic Environmental Law
Back to the Future of Nature's Trust
Häftad, 2022
344 kr
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The common ground between religions could be fruitfully promoted in order to call for an effective protection of the climate system. Positioned at a junction of different worlds, this book is a multidisciplinary work on Islamic law, common law and environmental law. Looking at the past, present and …
Evaluation of Evidence
Pre-Modern and Modern Approaches
Häftad, 2020
523 kr
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Judges were never bound by law to convict a defendant unless they considered him guilty. Yet, they could be prohibited by law from convicting a person they consider guilty due to the absence of legally prescribed or the presence of legally prohibited evidence. Evaluation of Evidence addresses the …
A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence
Essays in Memory of H. Patrick Glenn
Av Helge Dedek
Häftad, 2024
433 kr
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H. Patrick Glenn (1940-2014), Professor of Law and former Director of the Institute of Comparative Law at McGill University, was a key figure in the global discourse on comparative law. This collection is intended to honor Professor Glenn's intellectual legacy by engaging critically with his ideas, …
Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa
Av Aslı Ü. Bâli, Omar M. Dajani
Inbunden, 2023
1813 kr
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This volume, the first of its kind in the English language, examines the law and politics of federalism and decentralization in the Middle East and North Africa. Comprised of eleven case studies examining the experience across the region, together with essays by leading scholars providing …
A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence
Essays in Memory of H. Patrick Glenn
Av Helge Dedek
Inbunden, 2021
1612 kr
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H. Patrick Glenn (1940-2014), Professor of Law and former Director of the Institute of Comparative Law at McGill University, was a key figure in the global discourse on comparative law. This collection is intended to honor Professor Glenn's intellectual legacy by engaging critically with his ideas, …
Alternative Approaches to Human Rights
The Disparate Historical Paths of the European, Inter-American and African Regional Human Rights Systems
Inbunden, 2022
1514 kr
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This book explores the comparative historical evolution of the European, Inter-American and African regional human rights systems. The book devotes attention to various factors that have shaped the systems: the different circumstances in which they were founded; the influence of major states and …
Freedom of Expression
The Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought
Inbunden, 2021
1648 kr
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Two legal systems founded on similar Enlightenment philosophical and political values use state coercion differently to regulate a liberty at the core of the Enlightenment: freedom of expression. This comparative study of France and the United States proposes a novel theory of how the limits of …
Ruling the Law
Legitimacy and Failure in Latin American Legal Systems
Häftad, 2022
389 kr
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The North-South global divide is as much about perception and prejudice as it is about economic disparities. Latin America is no less ruled by hegemonic misrepresentations of its national legal systems. The European image of its laws mostly upholds legal legitimacy and international comity. By …
Prosecutors and Democracy
A Cross-National Study
Av Máximo Langer, David Alan Sklansky
Häftad, 2018
613 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Focusing on the relationship between prosecutors and democracy, this volume throws light on key questions about prosecutors and the role they should play in liberal self-government. Internationally distinguished scholars discuss how prosecutors can strengthen democracy, how they sometimes undermine …
