Product Description: This ambitious book examines the notion of legal transparency from a unique cultural and historical perspective. Drawing from their combined academic and practical experience with both Chinese and Western legal traditions, authors John Head and Xing Lijuan explore how an intense debate — pitting legal transparency against legal opaqueness — unfolded in dynastic Chinese law, which began in the dark mists of history and ended formally just over a hundred years ago...read more

Product Description: Grasslands, prairies, and savannas once covered much of the Earth's surface. Human action has visited great damage on those natural features, so that today most of them have either disappeared or suffered severe degradation as a result of agricultural conversion, over-grazing, urbanization, species encroachment, fragmentation, climate change, and other factors...read more

Product Description: This text, completely updated from the Second Edition, provides students and practitioners of international business law with a clear ''story line'' that addresses key questions facing international lawyers as they advise clients on a broad range of business issues — especially those of a transactional character...read more

Product Description: Great Legal Traditions: Civil Law, Common Law, and Chinese Law in Historical and Operational Perspective draws on the nearly thirty years of experience that the author has accumulated from working in and writing about a variety of legal systems around the world...read more

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Product Description: There is a fundamental reason, the authors of this book contend, why national financial systems falter and collapse: the failure of central banks and other supervisory authorities to deal promptly and decisively with insolvent banks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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