Conflict Of Laws category: 101 books
The Developing World of Arbitration
A Comparative Study of Arbitration Reform in the Asia Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The Developing World of Arbitration studies the recent emergence of Asia Pacific jurisdictions as regional or international arbitration centres, thanks to various reform efforts and initiatives. This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of the ways in which arbitration law and practice...
by Dr Lara Walker
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
No one would dispute that the duty to provide for those that you have a legal and moral obligation to support is very important. With the movement and migration of people both within Europe and globally, there are more and more families and relations who live in different States. Therefore it is imperative...
Intellectual Property and Private International Law
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
'Intellectual property and private international law' was one of the subjects discussed at the 18th International Congress of Comparative Law held in Washington (July 2010). This volume contains the General Report and 20 National Reports covering Canada, US, Japan, Korea, India and a number of European...
Rights, Religious Pluralism and the Recognition of Difference
Off the Scales of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Human rights and their principles of interpretation are the leading legal paradigms of our time. Freedom of religion occupies a pivotal position in rights discourses, and the principles supporting its interpretation receive increasing attention from courts and legislative bodies. This book critically...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This book grew out of a major European Union (EU) funded project on the Hague Maintenance Convention of 2007 and on the EU Maintenance Regulation of 2009. The project involved carrying out analytical research on the implementation into national law of the EU Regulation and empirical research on the...
The Politics of Justice in European Private Law
Social Justice, Access Justice, Societal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
The Politics of Justice in European Private Law intends to highlight the differences between the Member States' concepts of social justice, which have developed historically, and the distinct European concept of access justice. Contrary to the emerging critique of Europe's justice deficit in the aftermath...
by Alex Mills
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
This book provides an unprecedented analysis and appraisal of party autonomy in private international law - the power of private parties to enter into agreements as to the forum in which their disputes will be resolved or the law which governs their legal relationships. It includes a detailed exploration...
The Search for Justice in a Media Age
Reading Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
What can we learn from the legal cases of Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward? How do the legal system and the media contribute to a collective understanding of class, nation, race and gender? In this book, Siobhan Holohan explores media representations of law and order in the context of notions...
by Dr Katarina Trimmings
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The first part of the book critically evaluates the evolution of the separate intra-EU child abduction regime and examines the extent to which the European Union complied with its standards of good legislative drafting during the negotiations on the Brussels II bis Regulation. It seeks to demonstrate...
by Gareth Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This title was first published in 2000: The great mobility of people and capital in the world today means that the likelihood of a person acquiring and dying with assets in more than one jurisdiction is probably greater than ever. As a result an English lawyer is now more and more likely to encounter...
by Christa Roodt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this timely book Christa Roodt demonstrates how the structure and method of private international law can be applied in its expanding relationship with cultural heritage law. In particular, she explores the use of private international law in the context of ownership claims and the illicit trafficking...
Transnational Crime
Law, Theory and Practice at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Philip Jessup coined the term "transnational law" in his Storrs Lecture on Jurisprudence delivered in 1956 to describe law that regulates activities or actions that transcend national borders. The term redefined the development and practice of the law, and became a distinct field of study....
The Scotia Widows
Inside Their Lawsuit Against Big Daddy Coal
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
On March 9, 1976, a violent explosion, fueled by high concentrations of methane gas and coal dust, ripped through the Scotia mine in the heart of Eastern Kentucky coal country. The blast killed fifteen miners who were working nearly three and a half miles underground; two days later, a second explosion...
Interregional Recognition and Enforcement of Civil and Commercial Judgments
Lessons for China from US and EU Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Judgment recognition and enforcement (JRE) between the US states, between EU Member States, and between mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao, are all forms of 'interregional JRE'. This extensive comparative study of the three most important JRE regimes focuses on what lessons China can draw from the...