This work is concerned with the regulation of family relationships with particular reference to the issue of contact in the many different contexts in which it may arise.
This book is concerned with the regulation of family relationships, in particular the issue of openness and contact in the many different family situations in which it may arise. The shift towards a presumption of contact, and its articulation within diverse fields of family law…
Having its origins in the process of transformation and land reform that began to take shape in South Africa at the end of the last century, this strikingly original analysis of property starts from deep inside the property regime and not from a distant or abstract perspective o…
"This book offers a series of essays by an international group of scholars whose work looks comparatively at law's attempts to deal with the past. Ranging from questions of criminal responsibility and amnesty to those of law's relation to time, memory and the ethics of reconcili…
This book offers a series of original essays by an international group of scholars whose work looks comparatively at laws attempts to deal with the past. Ranging from questions of criminal responsibility and amnesty to those of laws relation to time, memory, and the ethics of re…
Beginning with an overview of contractual mistake in Roman law, this title examines how theories of mistake were received at various points into English contract law from Roman and civil law sources.
It is a matter of some difficulty for the English lawyer to predict the effect of a misapprehension upon the formation of a contract. The common law doctrine of mistake is a confused one, with contradictory theoretical underpinnings and seemingly irreconcilable cases. This book …
German substantive criminal law has been influential in many civil law countries, most notably in the Hispanic world. In the common law countries, not surprisingly because of the systemic differences in approach, its impact has been much less, if not negligible. This may be larg…
"This book presents a new English translation of the Strafgesetzbuch, (the Criminal Code), in its most recent amended form of August 2007. The Code is the centrepiece of German substantive criminal law and informs the interpretation and application of any other criminal provisio…
German substantive criminal law has been influential in many civil law countries, most notably in the Hispanic world. This book presents a English translation of the Strafgesetzbuch, (the Criminal Code), in its amended form of August 2007.
Concerns associated with globalisation of markets, exacerbated by the 'credit crunch', have placed pressure on many nation states to make their labour markets more 'flexible'. In so doing, many states have sought to reduce labour standards and to diminish the influence of trade …
Pressures associated with globalisation of markets, exacerbated by the 'credit crunch', have placed pressure on many nation states to make their labour markets more 'flexible'. In so doing, many states have sought to reduce labour standards and to diminish the influence of trade…