Product Description: To what extent does family law accommodate, deny, support, or reflect the existence of religion and religious belief in a range of jurisdictions throughout various family and social situations? This collection of comparative essays brings together reflections on a range of religions, including Islam, Judaism, and Roman Catholicism...read more

Product Description: The aim of this volume is to provide the reader with original views on and insight into mixed legal systems in general, and some mixed legal systems and ongoing mixes in particular. The hope is that the analyses to be found in the eleven contributions will be helpful for scholars, students and practitioners who have a general interest in comparative law and a special interest in mixed legal systems, and provide inspiration to pursue further inquiries...read more

Product Description: The Commission on European Family Law (CEFL) published its Principles of European Family Law Regarding Parental Responsibilities in 2007 as a contribution towards the establishment of a European family law. Only by empirical testing of the Principles in a number of legal systems can one demonstrate whether they are acceptable and/or are regarded as an improvement on existing national laws...read more

Product Description: This innovative, refreshing, and reader-friendly book enables students to familiarize themselves with the challenges and controversies found in comparative law. Comparative Law fills that gap in teaching at undergraduate level. For postgraduates, it will be a starting point for further reading and discussion...read more

Product Description: The Commission on European Family Law published its "Principles of European Family Law Regarding Divorce and Maintenance Between Former Spouses" in 2004 as a contribution towards the establishment of a European Family Law. Only by empirical testing of the Principles in a number of legal systems can one demonstrate whether they are acceptable and/or are regarded as an improvement on existing national laws...read more

Product Description: In our globalizing world, can we talk of a "common law or ius commune of human rights"? Is such a common law being developed by our judges in conversation with judges from foreign jurisdictions and from the European Court of Human Rights? Can this be the new natural law? These and other questions are addressed in this volume through the experiences of England, France, Germany, Russia, Scotland, Turkey, South Africa, and the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights...read more

Product Description: As society becomes more global and multicultural, many lawyers find themselves researching and applying principles and rules from several legal traditions. In Europe especially, the gradual convergence of civil law and common law that has been under way for decades is now gaining depth and breadth from aspects of Islamic, Asian, and African legal cultures, and we are all the better for it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: All legal systems are mixed: some more than others. There are covert mixtures and overt mixtures; stable mixtures and mixtures in transition. This book brings together a wide range of legal orders, some well known, some not so often studied...read more