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Constitutionalism and Dictatorship
By: Barros, Robert; Przeworski, Adam
Published by: Cambridge University Press
It is widely believed that autocratic regimes cannot limit their power through institutions of their own making. This book presents a surprising challenge to this view. It demonstrates that the Chilean armed forces were constrained by institutions of their own design.
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Price: $22.00
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Democracy and the Rule of Law
By: Maravall, José María; Przeworski, Adam
Published by: Cambridge University Press
This book addresses the question of why governments sometimes follow the law and other times choose to evade the law. It interprets the rule of law as a strategic choice of actors with powerful interests, rather than as an exogenous constraint on politicians.
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European Law in the Past and the Future
By: van Caenegem, R. C.
Published by: Cambridge University Press
R. C. van Caenegem considers the historical reasons behind European legal diversity, stressing the adoption of the classical law of the Romans, the influence of the rise of the nation states, and the impact of politics on legal development. He concludes with a consideration of the desirability of European legal unification.
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Price: $24.00
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Product Liability in Comparative Perspective
By: Fairgrieve, Duncan
Published by: Cambridge University Press
This book examines the law in respect of financial redress for those injured by defective consumer items, known as product liability. The different approach of the courts in a variety of different countries is examined, including Western Europe, Accession Countries, North America and Japan.
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Price: $81.00
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Restitution At The Crossroads
By: Krebs, Thomas
Published by: Cavendish Publishing Limited
There is no area in which comparative law is more useful than in the area of unjust enrichment. This book examines the anatomy of the subject in England and Germany - particularly topical due to the way German taxonomy seems to be encroaching on English law.
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Price: $80.00
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Abortion in Judaism
By: Schiff, Daniel
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Abortion in Judaism presents a complete Jewish legal history of abortion from the earliest relevant biblical references through the end of the twentieth century. For the first time, almost every Jewish text relevant to the abortion issue is explored, providing important insights into the development of Jewish ethical principles.
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Adapting Legal Cultures
By: Nelken, David (ed.); Feest, Johannes (ed.)
Published by: Hart Publishing, Ltd
This exciting collection looks at the theory and practice of legal borrowing and adaptation in different areas of the world: Europe,the USA and Latin America, S.E. Asia and Japan. Many of the contributors focus on fundamental theoretical issues. What are legal transplants? What is the role of the state in producing socio-legal change? What are the conditions of successful legal transfers? How is globalisation changing these conditions? Such problems are also discussed with reference to substantive and specific case studies. When and why did Japanese rules of product liability come into line with those of the EU and the USA? How and why did judicial review come late to the legal systems of Holland and Scandinavia? Why is the present wave of USA-influenced legal reforms in Latin Amercia apparently having more success than the previous round? How does competition between the legal and accountancy professions affect patterns of bankruptcy? The chapters in this volume, which include a comprehensive theoretical introduction, offer a range of valuable insights even if they also show that the
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Price: $132.00
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American Legal History
By: Hall, Kermit L.
Published by: Oxford University Press (US)
Revised and expanded in this third edition, American Legal History now provides a comprehensive selection of the most important documents in the field, which integrate the history of public and private law from America's colonial origins to the present. The "since 1945" portion includes up-to-date material and current cases.
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Price: $110.00
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