This is a study of the laws of the late Roman Empire (379-455 AD). The book attempts to compile a list assigning each law to the likely quaestor who drafted it and explores why the eastern Theodosian Code came too late to save the West.
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An account of the historical development of the common law of landed property. Work published since the first edition (1961) is taken into account, and the treatment of the nineteenth century period has been enlarged.
Through an analysis of the controversial Hindu Code Bill, this book explores the formative process of Indian law. It examines the family law reforms in India to understand the connection between legal reforms and social transformation.
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Francis Bacon wrote in 1625 that judges must be lions, but lions under the throne. From that day to this, the tension within the state between parliamentary, judicial and executive power has remained unresolved. Lions under the Throne is the first systematic account of the origi…
Comparative constitutionalism in South Asia
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This book seeks to fill a void in the representation of South Asian constitutions and constitutionalism in international discourse. Although parts of South Asia have remained obscure and unstable on the fine balance of constitutional stability and constitutionalism, an appreciab…
This history of the discipline of public law in Germany covers three dramatic decades of the twentieth century. It opens with the First World War, analyzes the highly creative years of the Weimar Republic, and recounts the decline of German public law that began in 1933 and exte…
Article 44 of The Constitution of India, provides that 'The State shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a Uniform Civil Code throughout the territory of India'. Even after more than six decades, this anticipated code has not been developed or implemented. This book provides…
This text analyses a variety of issues concerning medicine and the application of law governing its practice, education, and research. The author addresses them in the light of recent developments in technology and views them from a comparative perspective by focusing on Indian …
This volume explores Roman law and canon law to chart the various responses to the turbulent years of the Iconoclast era, c.680-850, which saw the rise of Islam and the emergence of medieval Byzantium from the wreckage of ancient Rome.
This book provides an account of the overarching system for regulating financial services in Australia.
In many respects the consumer is supposed to be the ultimate beneficiary of the process of market integration in Europe, but the EC Treaty has never included an elaborate recognition of how the EU serves the consumer interest. This highly esteemed book, now in its second edition…
HauptbeschreibungThis excellent series presents comparative study, analysis and evaluation of 28 European legal systems in the field of transfer of movables. Major topics are - the notion of ownership, - the derivative acquisition of ownership (e.g. by a sales contract), - the g…
HauptbeschreibungThis excellent series presents comparative study, analysis and evaluation of 28 European legal systems in the field of transfer of movables. Major topics are - the notion of ownership, - the derivative acquisition of ownership (e.g. by a sales contract), - the g…
Placing the contemporary discussion on personal laws in India in historical perspective, this important book views the debate as a critical component of Indian democracy. Balancing the imperatives of multiculturalism, national integration, and gender justice, it affirms that the…
This reference covers the legal frameworks of mining of forty European countries, especially those in the southeast, which possess a large wealth of deposits. It discusses relevant legislation and offers an overview of approaches to mineral resources policy.