Based on interviews with judges, this book presents the inside story of how judges engage with international and comparative law in the highest courts of the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, France and the Netherlands.
"Why do judges study legal sources that originated outside their own national legal system, and how do they use arguments from these sources in deciding domestic cases? Based on interviews with judges, this book presents the inside story of how judges engage with international a…
Analysing the impact of EU law beyond its borders, this book examines the use of law as a powerful instrument of EU external action and addresses some of the normative challenges this poses. The 'global reach' of EU law is examined in policy areas of the environment, the interne…
Global legal pluralism has become one of the leading analytical frameworks for understanding and conceptualizing law in the 21st century. Wherever one looks, there is conflict among multiple legal regimes - some of which are state-based; some are built and maintained by nonstate…
This volume brings together leading scholars from around the world to analyze all aspects of legal pluralism, offering defenses, critiques, and applications of legal pluralism to 21st-century legal analysis. Volume editor Paul Schiff Berman introduces every chapter, framing the …
Local people and global goings-on : an African story / Sally Falk Moore -- Anthropological roots of global legal pluralism / Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Bertram Turner -- The eclipse of global legal pluralism in ethnology : a French trajectory / Grégoire Mallard -- An anthropo…
"Global legal pluralism has become one of the leading analytical frameworks for understanding and conceptualizing law in the twenty-first century"--
This volume brings together leading scholars from around the world to analyze all aspects of legal pluralism, offering defenses, critiques, and applications of legal pluralism to 21st-century legal analysis. Volume editor Paul Schiff Berman introduces every chapter, framing the …
La 4ème de couv. indique : "Property Law in a Globalizing World identifies the paramount challenges that contemporary processes of globalization pose for the study and practice of property law. It offers a straightforward analysis of legal scenarios implicating cross-border prop…
Property Law in a Globalizing World' identifies the paramount challenges that contemporary processes of globalization pose for the study and practice of property law. It offers a straightforward analysis of legal scenarios implicating cross-border property rights, covering a bro…
''In this book, one of the longest-standing members of The Venice Commission reflects on the work of the institution to show how constitutional law in Europe (and beyond) has become increasingly borderless.The book tracks the work of the Commission, illustrating the law both in …
Présentation de l'éditeur : "In this book one of the longest-standing members of The Venice Commission reflects on the work of the institution to show how constitutional law in Europe (and beyond) has become increasingly borderless. Over nine chapters, the book tracks the work o…
The development of the role of the Venice Commission -- European conditionality, living constitution, and constitutional drafting -- The European constitutional heritage as a yardstick for the new democracies -- The epiphany of the international constitutional law -- Internation…
The development of the role of the Venice Commission -- European conditionality, living constitution, and constitutional drafting -- The European constitutional heritage as a yardstick for the new democracies -- The epiphany of the international constitutional law -- Internation…
"In this book one of the longest standing members of The Venice Commission reflects on the work of the institution to show how constitutional law in Europe (and beyond) has become increasingly borderless. Over nine chapters, the book tracks the work of the Commission, illustrati…