A comprehensive reference resource on comparative constitutional law, this title examines the history and development of the discipline, its core concepts, institutions, rights, and emerging trends.

This volume also includes the main addenda for the other editions, and the text of Dicey's inaugural lecture.

In this work, a legal scholar provides a comparative analysis of how justice is administered in legal systems around the world and of the link between politics and justice.

Legal Traditions of the World places national laws in the broader context of major legal traditions, those of chthonic (or indigenous) law, talmudic law, civil law, Islamic law, common law, Hindu law and Confucian law.

Original sources illustrate and compare the principal doctrines of private law in the United States, England, France, Germany and China.

Besides a detailed overview of the sources of Roman law, the book also includes sections on private and criminal law and procedure, with special attention given to those aspects of Roman law that have particular importance to today's lawyer ...

Al-Dawoody examines the justifications and regulations for going to war in both international and domestic armed conflicts under Islamic law.

This book brings together research on police integrity on regions worldwide.

This book explores the phenomenon of a 'new international policing' and outlines the range of challenges and opportunities it presents to both practitioners and theorists.