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  1. Comparing Online Legal Education

    Comparing Online Legal Education

    Past, Present and Future
    Book | 1st edition 2023 | Luke Nottage, Makoto Ibusuki
    This is a pioneering study comparing university-level and professional online legal education across 13 jurisdictions from the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and beyond before and especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. The book examines developments in legal professions and traditions, university funding and ICT infrastructure.
    €119.00 incl. VAT
    Available from July 2023
  2. Surrogacy in Latin America

    Surrogacy in Latin America

    Book | 1st edition 2023 | World | Nicolás Espejo Yaksic, Claire Fenton-Glynn, Jens M. Scherpe
    This book canvasses the laws regarding surrogacy in Latin American jurisdictions, putting the legal developments into their historical and social contexts. It also categorises the approaches taken and compares them to developments around the globe.
    €99.00 incl. VAT
    Available from May 2023
  3. Plurality and Diversity in Law: The Human Rights Paradigm

    Plurality and Diversity in Law: The Human Rights Paradigm

    Book | 1st edition 2023 | United Kingdom | Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen
    This book provides an understanding of how States around the world, whether in the Global North or the Global South, deal with and organize the religious, ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity within them and how, in the same vein, they deal with the plurality of opinions and legal systems.
    €205.00 incl. VAT
    Available from April 2023
  4. Enterprise Foundation Law in a Comparative Perspective

    Enterprise Foundation Law in a Comparative Perspective

    Book | 1st edition 2023 | United Kingdom | Anne Sanders, Steen Thomsen
    Many large companies - like Bosch, Ikea and Novo-Nordisk - are owned by enterprise foundations. This book provides an overview of enterprise foundation law in six European countries and the US. The book explores enterprise foundation law in the seven aforementioned nations and analyzes how the law influences the prevalence and governance of enterprise foundations around the world.
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  5. Cross-Border Recognition of Formalized Same-Sex Relationships

    Cross-Border Recognition of Formalized Same-Sex Relationships

    The Role of Ordre Public
    Book | 1st edition 2022 | World | Laima Vaige
    This book focuses on the civil status validity of formalized relationships of same-sex couples when such couples move across borders between EU Member States. The Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, are used as examples of States that are less accommodating of same-sex relationships concluded abroad.
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  6. Boundaries of Information Property

    Boundaries of Information Property

    Book | 1st edition 2022 | Europe | Christine Godt, Geertrui Van Overwalle, Lucie Guibault, Deryck Beyleveld
    This book is the result of a long-term comparative research project on intellectual property. It unearths the thought patterns which are culturally, morally and historically imprinted across Europe and questions the common narratives of the distinctiveness of private and public law, contracts and property, and morality and the law.
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  7. Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction

    Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction

    The Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings
    Book | 1st edition 2022 | World | Katarina Trimmings, Anatol Dutta, Costanza Honorati, Mirela Zupan
    This book addresses the issue of mothers who, fleeing from domestic violence, take their children with them and thus become liable for international child abduction. It examines how protection measures can help the abducting mother in this context, with a special focus on the utility of Regulation 606/2013 on mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matters and Directive 2011/99/EU on the European Protection Order, which allow cross-border circulation of protection measures.
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  8. Legal Systems of the Pacific

    Legal Systems of the Pacific

    Introducing Sixteen Gems
    Book | 1st edition 2021 | World | Jennifer Corrin, Tony Angelo
    With no new books written on these legal systems for nearly 30 years, this book fills a gap in the literature and offers a true 'insider' perspective with the majority of authors being indigenous or long-term residents of the countries in question.
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  9. European Contract Law and the Creation of Norms

    European Contract Law and the Creation of Norms

    Book | 1st edition 2021 | Europe | Stefan Grundmann, Mateusz Grochowski
    The book sketches a broad landscape of sources of modern contract law, with particular regard to EU private law rules. It provides for a better understanding of the identity of present-day contract law by analysing the multitude of social and economic dynamics that shape its normative landscape.
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  10. Environmental Loss and Damage in a Comparative Law Perspective

    Environmental Loss and Damage in a Comparative Law Perspective

    Book | 1st edition 2021 | United Kingdom | Barbara Pozzo, Valentina Jacometti
    This book analyzes the legal issues arising from and relating to environmental loss and damage. It does so from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, examining both public and private law aspects. It takes into consideration specific legal issues concerning liability, compensation and restoration of damage in different sectors and jurisdictions.
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  11. Enforcing Consumer and Capital Markets Law

    Enforcing Consumer and Capital Markets Law

    The Diesel Emissions Scandal
    Book | 1st edition 2020 | Europe | Beate Gsell, Thomas Möllers
    This book critically analyses the various approaches of public and private law enforcement and their effectiveness across several jurisdictions on the example of one topical and global collective damage event with far reaching consequences for both, consumers and investors: the Dieselgate.
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  12. Interpretation of Commercial Contracts in European Private Law

    Interpretation of Commercial Contracts in European Private Law

    Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | C.J.W. Baaij, David Cabrelli, Laura Macgregor
    This book is a unique and extensive comparative study of commercial contract interpretation across 14 selected jurisdictions, namely Croatia, England and Wales, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, South Africa, Spain and Sweden. Using a dynamic comparative case method, the focus is centered on the discussion of key legal problems, further examined in a detailed and comprehensive comparative analysis. Contributions written from a law and economics, and European private law perspectives place the key legal issues into context and make Interpretation of Commercial Contracts in European Private Law a coherent and valuable resource for academics and practitioners with a European or International focus.
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  13. Elderly Care and Upwards Solidarity

    Elderly Care and Upwards Solidarity

    Historical, Sociological and Legal Perspectives
    Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Elisabeth Alofs, Wendy Schrama
    This book examines the legal and societal challenges facing ageing nations in Europe. With a focus on informal care, it poses the question of how, in light of historical and socio-demographic changes, we can take care of our elderly.
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  14. The EU Law Duty of Consistent Interpretation in German, Irish and Dutch Courts

    The EU Law Duty of Consistent Interpretation in German, Irish and Dutch Courts

    Book | 1st edition 2019 | Europe | Sim Haket
    This book examines the case law of the European Court of Justice concerning the requirement to interpret national law in conformity with EU law directives. It offers an in-depth analysis of the application of this obligation in three Member States: Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands. The key question underlying this examination is to what extent the established theories of supremacy of EU law, national constitutionalism and constitutional pluralism adequately explain the relationship between EU and national law under the duty of consistent interpretation.
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  15. Overuse in the Criminal Justice System

    Overuse in the Criminal Justice System

    On Criminalization, Prosecution and Imprisonment 
    Book | 1st edition 2019 | United Kingdom | Piet van Kempen, Manon Jendly
    The criminal justice system encompasses the most severe instrument at the state's disposal in times of peace. For this and many other reasons, overuse of that system is a serious matter. Containing an extensive collection of expert knowledge, this volume intends to expose legal possibilities, good practices and the many challenges that lie ahead when attempting to prevent overuse in the criminal justice system.
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  16. Judicial Law-Making in English and German Courts

    Judicial Law-Making in English and German Courts

    Techniques and Limits of Statutory Interpretation
    Book | 1st edition 2018 | Europe | Martin Brenncke
    Judicial Law-making in English and German Courts is the first monograph in English that compares English and German statutory interpretation as applied in judicial practice, appealing to those interested in legal methodology, constitutional law or comparative law.
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