This volume examines the tax systems of some twenty countries to determine whether their tax laws are used to support growth and development across borders in lower-income and poor countries.
This volume examines the tax systems of some twenty countries to determine whether their tax laws are used to support growth and development across bo...
No aspect of legal formalism has interested comparative jurists as much as the extent of legislative codification across legal systems. This book looks at codification from a broad, international perspective, discussing general themes as well as various legal fields. The first of two volumes on this subject begins with a general theoretical and historical view of codification, followed by a series of other horizontal inquiries. It encompasses papers focusing on several significant contemporary issues in codification, including "codification of private law in post-soviet times," "criminal...
No aspect of legal formalism has interested comparative jurists as much as the extent of legislative codification across legal systems. This book l...
This book looks at codification from a broad, international perspective, discussing general themes as well as various legal fields. Since codification is a subject of intense current interest in East Asia, this second volume on codification is dedicated to the sub-theme of codification and legal transplant in this area, focusing on China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. It includes two papers that discuss development of codification in East Asia and Korea in particular. It is also comprised of two reports that draw comparative lessons from Japan, India and Indonesia. In addition, this volume...
This book looks at codification from a broad, international perspective, discussing general themes as well as various legal fields. Since codificat...
This book addresses one central question: if justice is to be done in the name of the community, how far do the decision-makers need to reflect the community, either in their profile or in the opinions they espouse? Each contributor provides an answer on the basis of a careful analysis of the rules, assumptions and practices relating to their own national judicial system and legal culture. Written by national experts, the essays illustrate a variety of institutional designs towards a better reflection of the community. The involvement of lay people is often most visible in judicial...
This book addresses one central question: if justice is to be done in the name of the community, how far do the decision-makers need to reflect the...
This volume presents global and comparative perspectives on the perpetual pendular movement of family law between status and contract. It contributes to the topical academic debate on `family law exceptionalism' by exploring the blurred lines between public law, private law and family law, and sheds light on the many shades of grey that exist.
This volume presents global and comparative perspectives on the perpetual pendular movement of family law between status and contract. It contributes ...
This work deals with the temporal effect of judicial decisions and more specifically, with the hardship caused by the retroactive operation of overruling decisions. By means of a jurisprudential and comparative analysis, the book explores several issues created by the overruling of earlier decisions.
Overruling of earlier decisions, when it occurs, operates retrospectively with the effect that it infringes the principle of legal certainty through upsetting any previous arrangements made by a party to a case under long standing precedents established previously by the courts. On this...
This work deals with the temporal effect of judicial decisions and more specifically, with the hardship caused by the retroactive operation of over...
By means of the analysis of more than 20 national jurisdictions of different legal and geographical origin this book provides a general understanding of the developments that civil and commercial mediation is currently undertaking across the world.
By means of the analysis of more than 20 national jurisdictions of different legal and geographical origin this book provides a general understanding ...
Disgorgement of profits is not exactly a household word in private law. In such cases, the question arises whether the infringing party should be disgorged of his profits.This volume aims at establishing the notion of disgorgement of profits as a keyword in the discourse of private law.
Disgorgement of profits is not exactly a household word in private law. In such cases, the question arises whether the infringing party should be disg...
