Conflict Of Laws category: 101 books
Comparative Law for SpanishEnglish Speaking Lawyers
Legal Cultures, Legal Terms and Legal Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Comparative Law for SpanishEnglish Speaking Lawyers provides practitioners and students of law, in a variety of English- and Spanish- speaking countries, with the information and skills needed to successfully undertake competent comparative legal research and communicate with local counsel and clients...
Regulatory Integration Across Borders
Public–Private Cooperation in Transnational Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
This book deals with a key feature of globalization: the rise of regulation beyond the state. It examines the emergence of transnational regulatory cooperation between public and private actors and pursues an inquiry that is at once legal, empirical and theoretical. It asks why a private actor and...
by Richard Frimpong Oppong
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
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,...
Criminal Procedure and the Supreme Court
A Guide to the Major Decisions on Search and Seizure, Privacy, and Individual Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
In any episode of the popular television show Law and Order, questions of police procedure in collecting evidence often arise. Was a search legal? Was the evidence obtained lawfully? Did the police follow the rules in pursuing their case? While the show depicts fictional cases and scenarios, police...
Offshore Financial Law
Trusts and Related Tax Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
The discipline of offshore financial law has developed substantially since the first edition of this book was published. The second edition updates the reader with developments in case law and legislation and also covers a more extensive range of offshore jurisdictions including new coverage of Switzerland,...
by Brian F. Havel, Gabriel S. Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The Principles and Practice of International Aviation Law provides an introduction to, and demystification of, the private and public dimensions of international aviation law. Unlike other global sectors, the air transport industry is not governed by a discrete area of the law, but by disparate transnational...
by Steven D. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
-- If you don’t understand the outrage over forced identification, then you will not recognize the government’s brutal plans for humanity.-- In 1964 the U.S. Supreme Court said that identification credentials are “abhorrent in the United States.”-- Most Americans have relinquished what traditional...
Commercial Contract Law
Transatlantic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
This book focuses on the law of commercial contracts as constructed by the US and UK legal systems. Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide works of original scholarship focusing on current debates and trends from the two dominant common law systems. The chapters approach the subject...
Choice-of-court Agreements under the European and International Instruments
The Revised Brussels I Regulation, the Lugano Convention, and the Hague Convention
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
This is the first text to address all the instruments that will govern choice-of-court agreements in Europe and to engage in a practical discussion of their mutual relationship. The existing common law, which has dominated discussion of this subject for so long, will become less significant as European...
by Louise Merrett
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
With employment contracts increasingly involving international elements, cases involving any international aspect require the application of rules of private international law to determine which court or tribunal can hear the case, and what law will be applied to determine the dispute. This book offers...
by Zheng Sophia Tang
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Arbitration and jurisdiction agreements are frequently used in transnational commercial contracts to reduce risk, gain efficacy and acquire certainty and predictability. Because of the similarities between these two types of procedural autonomy agreements, they are often treated in a similar way by...
International Commercial Arbitration
Different Forms and their Features
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Arbitration clauses in international commercial contracts are often reused from existing contracts. By so doing, the parties choose to apply, for example, either ad hoc or institutional arbitration and the UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, SCC, Swiss or other arbitration rules without necessarily being aware of...
The Confluence of Public and Private International Law
Justice, Pluralism and Subsidiarity in the International Constitutional Ordering of Private Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
A sharp distinction is usually drawn between public international law, concerned with the rights and obligations of states with respect to other states and individuals, and private international law, concerned with issues of jurisdiction, applicable law and the recognition and enforcement of foreign...
by Kathleen Puckett PhD, Terry D. Turchie
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Many of the same people who inhabited the political jungles of Washington, D.C. during Watergate are still in power today. In their constant jockeying for political power and influence on public opinion, they foster the same ill will and distrust of the FBI they have for 30 years. Their political...