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Fighting for Justice
This book provides a unique oversight of judges’ work and contemporary legal challenges in Common Law and Civil Law countries, based on the legal practice and testimonies of senior members of the judiciary speaking up for justice and the law. This book aims at contributing to restoring trust in judges as custodians of the law and justice, via a comparison between Civil and Common Law countries. In this book, judges of Common Law and Civil Law countries speak up for justice and the law in one powerful voice.
The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law
This handbook explores criminal law systems from around the world, with the express aim of stimulating comparison and discussion. General principles of criminal liability receive prominent coverage in each essay—including discussions of rationales for punishment, the role and design of criminal codes, the general structure of criminal liability, accounts of mens rea, and the rights that criminal law is designed to protect—before the authors turn to more specific offenses like homicide, theft, sexual offenses, victimless crimes, and terrorism. This key reference covers all of the world's major legal systems—common, civil, Asian, and Islamic law traditions—with essays on sixteen countries on six different continents. The introduction places each country within traditional distinctions among legal systems and explores noteworthy similarities and differences among the countries covered, providing an ideal entry into the fascinating range of criminal law systems in use the world over.
Towards a Chinese Civil Code
Currently, China is drafting its new Civil Code. Against this background, the Chinese legal community has shown a growing interest in various legal and legislative ideas from around the world. Within this context, the present book aims at providing the necessary historical and comparative legal perspectives. It concentrates on substantive private law and civil procedure, both in China and in other jurisdictions. These perspectives are of considerable importance for the present codification work. Additionally, the book is dedicated to commemorating the centennial of the first Western-influenced and civil law-oriented Civil Code of China, the Da Qing Min Lü Cao An of 1911. The following topic...
Comparative Law for Spanish–English Speaking Lawyers
Comparative Law for Spanish–English Speaking Lawyers provides practitioners and students of law, in a variety of English- and Spanish- speaking countries, with the information and skills needed to successfully undertake competent comparative legal research and communicate with local counsel and clients in a second language. Written with the purpose of helping lawyers develop the practical skills essential for success in today’s increasingly international legal market, this book aims to arm its readers with the tools needed to translate unfamiliar legal terms and contextualize the legal concepts and practices used in foreign legal systems. Comparative Law for Spanish–English Speaking La...
O Sistema Processual de Século XXI
“La transversalidad de los temas propuestos se enhebra con las cuestiones de la mayor actualidad, que buscan respuesta fundada, aunque plural y múltiple. Cada uno de nosotros aportando nuestro grano de arena, que con los demás va contribuyendo a la construcción de importantes propuestas por las que nuestro Instituto ganó merecida fama. Nuestros mayores nos enseñaron el camino y nuestro deber es continuarlo, sin sacralizar sus obras, para someterlas a continua discusión y actualización que las haga más eficaces, y presentado nuevos cometidos en esta apasionante misión de fomentar en todos los órdenes la investigación, el estudio y el desarrollo científico del Derecho Procesal en...
