Civil Law

Contemplating the nature, practice and study of private law, this comprehensive book offers a detailed overview of private law's theoretical dimensions. It promotes a reflective attitude towards the topic, encouraging the reader to question how private...

This comprehensive textbook provides a thorough guide to the economic analysis of law, with a particular focus on civil law systems. It encapsulates a structured analysis and nuanced evaluation of norms and legal policies, using the tools of economic...

This unique and timely book analyses the problem of financing civil litigation. The expert contributors discuss the legal possibilities and difficulties associated with several instruments -- including cost shifting, fee arrangements, legal expense...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847164636Author Anthony ReevesFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Emerald PublishingPublisher Emerald PublishingWeight(grams) 219g

This is a time when the rule of law is seriously challenged. Some governments threaten deliberately to break the law, while the independence of justice is jeopardised by unrelenting pressure from both the executive and the media. This book aims at...

Remedies Cases and Materials in Australian Private Law presents a selection of cases and legislation to introduce students to the remedies available under Australian law. It offers the depth and context required to understand and analyse the application...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847113607Author Katarzyna Poludniak-GierzFormat HardbackImprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 155g

Readers of this book will encounter peasants and farmers who struggle at home and traverse national borders to challenge the World Trade Organization and other powerful global institutions. Studies the activists in Brazil who uproot plots of genetically...

Much has been written in charity law on the type of benefits that charities can provide - charitable purposes - and towards whom such benefits must be directed - the public benefit question. Almost nothing has been written about when benefits must be...

Some describe civil litigation as little more than a drag on the economy; Others hail it as the solution to most of the country's problems. Stephen C. Yeazell argues that both positions are wrong. Deeply embedded in our political and economic systems,...

In the English-speaking world, Karl Renner is by far the best-known among the Austro-Marxists who were active in the Austrian socialist movement during the first few decades of the twentieth century. Recognition of Renner's scholarship is due largely to...

Presents a collection of the most influential essays on legal history from the career of John W Cairns. This collection covers the foundation and continuity of Scots Law from 16th and 17th century Scotland through the 18th century influence of Dutch...

There has been insufficient literature focusing on the world-changing rise of Asian wealth. Private wealth in Asia is very substantial, with 33 per cent of the global population of high-net-worth individuals based in Asia. Yet, there is a dearth of legal...

Unfulfilled legal needs are at a tipping point in many parts of the Canadian justice system and around the world. The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn't working in an effort to improve a fundamental right of democratic citizenship: access to civil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161612695Author Anna Marion BieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 259Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 397g

Professor Jane Stapleton is one of the world's leading experts on causation and has had a profound impact on tort law scholarship, both in terms of the incredible range of topics she has contributed to, and across the multiple countries she has worked in...

The ACLU was involved in excess of 1,190 cases in the US Supreme Court as a party, counsel of record/ACLU attorney, or as the filer of an amicus (friend of the court) brief, during ninety-four of its first one hundred years, ending in January 19, 2020...

Changing Concepts of Contract is a prestigious collection of essays that re-examines the remarkable contributions of Ian Macneil to the study of contract law and contracting behaviour. Ian Macneil, who taught at Cornell University, the University of...

How is it possible for an innocent man to come within nine days of execution? An Expendable Man answers that question through detailed analysis of the case of Earl Washington Jr., a mentally retarded, black farm hand who was convicted of the 1983 rape...

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Das Lehrbuch richtet sich an Studierende, die Gesellschaftsrecht im Pflichtfach- und im Schwerpunktbereich lernen, sowie an Rechtsreferendare und Berufseinsteiger, die einen kompakten Einstieg in die Thematik suchen. Diese Querverbindungen machen in...

This volume brings together the legislation that students on Scottish LLB law of obligations courses need to know about. Avizandum Legislation on the Scots Law of Obligations takes a unitary approach to this difficult and fragmented subject. It...

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This short book examines the taxonomy of ‘voluntary obligations’ presented by Viscount Stair in his seminal Institutions of the Law of Scotland, arguing that – notwithstanding ongoing proposals to significantly reform ‘Scots contract law’ –  Stair’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509972487Author Guido AlpaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hart PublishingPublisher Hart PublishingWeight(grams) 454g

Pursuing Justice, Fourth Edition, examines the issue of justice by considering the origins of the idea, formal systems of justice, current global issues of justice, and ways in which justice might be achieved by individuals, organizations, and the global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161637001Author Madalena Perestrelo de OliveiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 236g