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  • Contract Law

    A Comparative Introduction, Second Edition

    by Jan M. Smits ...
    This innovative and accessible text offers a straightforward and clear introduction to the law of contract suitable for use across geographical boundaries. It introduces the key principles of contract law by comparing solutions from different jurisdictions and has an innovative design with text boxes, colour and graphics, making it a highly attractive tool for studying. This revised second edition ... Read more

    R730,61

  • Constitutionalism and the Economy in Africa

    Edited by Charles M. Fombad, Nico Steytler ...
    Series series Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law
    Despite expectations that the celebrated second wave of constitutional democracy in the 1990s would facilitate economic development, Africa remains the continent with the highest level of poverty in the world. The fight against poverty hinges on a vibrant economy that creates jobs and income by generating enough revenue to enable the state to take pro-development measures. However, instead of the ... Read more

    R2 630,15

  • Cases, Materials and Text on Contract Law

    by Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson, Jacobien Rutgers, Professor Hugh Beale, Professor Stefan Vogenauer ...
    Series series Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe
    This is the third edition of the widely acclaimed and successful casebook on contract in the IusCommune series, developed to be used throughout Europe and beyond by anyone who teaches, learns or practises law with a comparative or European perspective. The book contains leading cases, legislation and other materials from English, French and German law as the main representatives of the legal ... Read more

    R1 446,69

  • Law and Social Policy in the Global South

    Brazil, China, India, South Africa

    Edited by Ulrike Davy, Albert H.Y. Chen ...
    The book is an in-depth study of the origins and the trajectories of the law governing social policies in Brazil, China, India, and South Africa, four middle-income countries in the global South with a history in social policy making that starts in the 1920s.The policies of these countries affect almost half of the world’s population. The book takes the legal framework of the policies as a ... Read more

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  • Borders, Legal Spaces and Territories in Contemporary International Law

    Within and Beyond

    Edited by Tommaso Natoli, Alice Riccardi ...
    This book examines the challenges posed to contemporary international law by the shifting role of the border, which has recently re-emerged as a central issue in international relations. It posits that borders do not merely correspond to States’ boundaries: indeed, while remaining a fundamental tool for asserting States’ power, they are in fact a collection of constantly changing spatial limits. ... Read more

    R2 604,16

  • Private International Law in Commonwealth Africa

    by Richard Frimpong Oppong ...
    This book provides a comprehensive and comparative examination of private international law in Commonwealth Africa. It offers an unrivalled breadth of coverage in its examination of the law in Botswana, the Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The book is clearly and logically structured - it is ... Read more

    R1 086,85

  • The Constitutional Protection of Private Property in China

    Historical Evolution and Comparative Research

    by Chuanhui Wang ...
    This timely book reviews the changes in legal reform around the constitutional protection of private property in China since 1949. Using a comparative approach, it analyses the development of property theories and the various constitutionalisation models and practices of private property in representative countries including the United States, Canada, Germany, India and China. It also explores the ... Read more

    R760,83

  • People’s Tribunals, Human Rights and the Law

    Searching for Justice

    Edited by Regina Menachery Paulose ...
    People’s Tribunals are independent, peaceful, grassroots movements, created by members of civil society, to address impunity that is associated with ongoing or past atrocities. As such, they offer society an alternative history and create a space for healing and reconciliation to take place that may otherwise be stifled by political agendas and legal technicalities. Since the 1960’s, People’s ... Read more

    R1 121,66

  • Improving the Tax System amid the Rule-of-Law China

    by Qiao Wang, Weiqun Xi ...
    This book discusses China’s tax system, presenting a comprehensive and systematic research based on a multidisciplinary approach involving economics, finance, political science, sociology, law, public administration, history, and econometrics.With China moving toward the rule of law, this book proposes reforms to the tax laws and the stratified governance with a view to achieving tax neutrality, ... Read more

    R2 083,33

  • The Canadian Contribution to a Comparative Law of Secession

    Legacies of the Quebec Secession Reference

    Edited by Giacomo Delledonne, Giuseppe Martinico ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited collection gathers together Canadian and non-Canadian scholars to reflect on and celebrate the 20thanniversary of the Quebec Secession Reference, delivered by the Canadian Supreme Court in 1998. It opens withtwo Canadian scholars exchanging thoughts on the legacy of the reference from a domestic perspective as one ofthe most questioned decisions of the Canadian Supreme Court. To follow ... Read more

    R2 256,98

  • Class Act

    An International Legal Perspective on Class Discrimination

    by Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter ...
    Even today, class discrimination remains an important global legal issue. This book allows readers a better understanding of the issue of class discrimination and inequality, including the role of education in bridging the class systems. The study seeks to increase the likelihood of achieving equality at both the national and international levels for those suffering class discrimination as the ... Read more

    R1 021,93

  • China’s State-Directed Economy and the International Order

    by Luyao Che ...
    This book explores the legal implications of China’s state-directed economic model for the existing international economic order. It first reveals the close links between the market and the state in contemporary China by profiling an emerging triple role of the state in the economy. It then explores how the domestic legal system underpins the distinctive market-state relationship, before analysing ... Read more

    R2 083,33

  • The Legal Issues of the Emerging Rights

    Edited by Jianzong Yao ...
    This book systematically discusses the contents of the administrative right to know, the right to information, the right to gene, euthanasia and other emerging rights. The purpose of this book is to attract legal scholars to pay attention to these right changes in the process of China's social transformation, analyze the basic laws of right changes under the specific background of China's society ... Read more

    R2 430,63

  • Das Trennungsprinzip im Patentrecht

    by Catharina Dresel ...
    Series Book 5801 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften Recht
    Im deutschen Patentrecht wird seit vielen Jahrzehnten eine klare Trennung von Verletzungs- und Rechtsbestandsverfahren praktiziert, für die jeweils unterschiedliche Gerichtsbarkeiten zuständig sind. Nach einer Untersuchung der Vor- und Nachteile dieses Systems sowie rechtsvergleichenden und historischen Ausführungen plädiert die Autorin für dessen Abschaffung und schlägt alternative ... Read more

    R1 412,30

  • Ethnic Diversity, Plural Democracy and Human Dignity

    Challenges to the European Union and Western Balkans

    Edited by Mario Krešić, Damir Banović, Alberto Carrio Sampedro, Jānis Pleps ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    “Given their ethnic diversity, to what extent, and at what cost and benefit to human dignity, can European countries adopt and adapt plural democracy?” The contributors to this volume offer answers to this question from a variety of multidisciplinary perspectives within the framework of the integral theory of law and the state. Their shared aim is to explain legal phenomena in the context of other ... Read more

    R2 604,16

  • Hazing (Ragging) at Universities: A Legal Perspective

    by Aashish Srivastava, Neerav Srivastava, D.K. Srivastava ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This is the first socio-legal multi-jurisdictional study on hazing (ragging). This book considers four countries: the USA, India, Sri Lanka, and Australia. It states the legal position, identifies lacunas in law, and proposes possible legal solutions. Unfortunately, laws, regulations, and policies have failed to stamp out hazing from university campuses and residential colleges.Hazing has ... Read more

    R2 430,63

  • The Equilibrium of Parliamentary Law-making

    Comparative Perspectives on the Role of Courts in a Democracy

    by Viktor Kazai ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Public Law
    This book is a response to the dangers posed to constitutional democracy by the continuous growth of executive power and the simultaneous decline of parliaments’ role in policy formation. These phenomena are often manifested in the manipulation and even the violation of the rules of parliamentary law-making, called irregularities. If left without consequences, these irregularities can ultimately ... Read more

    R1 146,59

  • Softwarebasierte Gebaeudesicherheitssysteme im Haftungsrecht

    Herausforderungen und Fortentwicklung im Hinblick auf IT-Risiken im transatlantischen Vergleich

    by Greta Arnold ...
    Series Book 5784 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften Recht
    Die Fortentwicklung technischer Bereiche erfordert stets auch eine Anpassungsleistung des Rechtssystems. Die Frage nach der Rechtsnatur von Software wird seit Jahrzehnten gestellt, bleibt allerdings umstritten und vielschichtig. Die Autorin entwickelt die Fragestellung fort, indem sie diese als Ausgangspunkt einer Untersuchung der Haftung im Fall von Fehlfunktionen softwarebasierter ... Read more

    R1 931,07

  • Causation in Criminal Law

    A Research Companion

    Edited by Alan Reed, Michael Bohlander, Bethany Simpson, Verity Adams ...
    Series series Substantive Issues in Criminal Law
    This collection presents a leading contribution in the substantive arena relating to causation in criminal law. Extant law reveals significant problems in adoption of consistent approaches to doctrinal and theoretical underpinnings of legal causation and culpability thresholds. This has been exemplified by a plethora of recent jurisprudential authorities revealing varying degrees of confusion and ... Read more

    R1 146,59

  • Ancient Laws and Modern Problems

    The Balance Between Justice and A Legal System

    by John Sassoon ...
    John Sassoon’s study of the written laws of four thousand years ago puts paid to the belief that the most ancient laws were merely arbitrary and tyrannical. On the contrary, the earliest legal systems honestly tried to get to the truth, do justice to individuals, and preserve civil order. They used the death penalty surprisingly seldom, and then more because society had been threatened than an ... Read more

    R365,34

  • Counter-Terrorism and Beyond

    The Culture of Law and Justice After 9/11

    Edited by Andrew Lynch, Nicola McGarrity, George Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Terrorism and the Law
    This book considers the increasing trend towards a ‘culture of control’ in democratic countries. The post-9/11 counter-terrorism laws in nations such as the USA, the UK, Canada and Australia provide a stark demonstration of this trend. These laws share a focus on the pre-emption of crime, restrictions on the right to liberty of non-suspects, limited public access to information, and increased ... Read more

    R1 470,69

  • The Enforceability of the Interim Measures Granted by an Emergency Arbitrator in International Commercial Arbitration

    by Junmin Zhang ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This timely book offers a comprehensive study of the emergency arbitrator mechanism that provides interim measures in international commercial arbitration before the constitution of an arbitral tribunal, focusing on the enforceability of the interim measures granted. Based on the traditional legal doctrines of private international law, international dispute resolution, and arbitration law, this ... Read more

    R2 430,63

  • Planungsrechtliche Regelungen zur Begrenzung der Flaecheninanspruchnahme im Rechtsvergleich mit England

    by Christiane Diehl ...
    Series Book 5878 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften Recht
    Da in Deutschland täglich etwa 73 Hektar freie Fläche in Siedlungs- und Verkehrsfläche umgewandelt werden, beschäftigt sich die Autorin mit der Frage, wie der quantitative Bodenschutz verbessert werden kann. Die hohe Flächeninanspruchnahme führt zu zahlreichen Problemen und insbesondere zu einer zunehmenden ökologischen Belastung. Ausgehend von der Sachlage, dass in England weit weniger Fläche in ... Read more

    R1 144,24

  • A Comparative Analysis of Policing Consumer Contracts in China and the EU

    by Jiangqiu Ge ...
    This book seeks to fill a gap in the existing literature by describing the formulation, interpretation and enforcement of the rules on consumer contracts in China and the EU, and by mapping key similarities and differences. The study addresses selected issues regarding consumer contracts: sources of law in the two jurisdictions are first discussed to set the scene. Afterwards, one preliminary ... Read more

    R2 083,33