Comparative Law Books

New and Published Books

1. Weak Constitutionalism

   Democratic Legitimacy and the Question of Constituent Power

   By Joel Colón-Ríos

   Series: Routledge Research in Constitutional Law

   It has been frequently argued that democracy is protected and realized under constitutions that protect certain rights and establish the conditions for a functioning representative democracy. However, some democrats still find something profoundly unsettling about contemporary constitutional...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Dynamics in the French Constitution

   Decoding French Republican Ideas

   By David Marrani

   Series: UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law

   In 2008, France celebrated the fifty years of the promulgation of the Fifth Republic Constitution. It was also the year of the largest modification of the Constitution, the so called ‘modernisation’. If 2008 was a key moment in French constitutional history, dynamics of the Fifth Republic...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Reform of UK Personal Property Security Law

   Comparative Perspectives

   Edited by John de Lacy

   There has been much discussion in the last ten years about the need to reform the law governing company charge registration, with many bodies including the Department of Trade and Industry and Law Commissions considering the case for reform of this area in the context of a wider scheme of personal...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
4. Local Government in Europe

   The ‘Fourth Level’ in the EU Multi-Layered System of Governance

   Edited by Carlo Panara, Michael R. Varney

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   This book offers a comparative study of the structure of the local government in the countries within the European Union from a public law perspective. The book provides a detailed analysis of the state of local government in fifteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland,...

   Published April 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Vindicating Socio-Economic Rights

   International Standards and Comparative Experiences

   By Paul O'Connell

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   Notwithstanding the widespread and persistent affirmation of the indivisibility and equal worth of all human rights, socio-economic rights continue to be treated as the "Cinderella" of the human rights corpus. At a domestic level this has resulted in little appetite for the explicit recognition and...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
6. Antitrust Federalism in the EU and the US

   By Firat Cengiz

   Series: Routledge Research in Competition Law

   The EU and the US are the preeminent examples of multi-level polities and both have highly developed competition policies. Despite these similarities however, recent developments suggest that they are moving in different directions in the area of antitrust federalism. This book examines multi-level...

   Published February 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Medical Ethics in China

   A Transcultural Interpretation

   By Jing-Bao Nie

   Series: Biomedical Law & Ethics Library

   Drawing on a wide range of primary historical and sociological sources and employing sharp philosophical analysis, this book investigates medical ethics from a Chinese-Western comparative perspective. In doing so, it offers a fascinating exploration of both cultural differences and commonalities...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
8. Introduction to Spanish Private Law

   Facing the Social and Economic Challenges

   By Teresa Rodriguez de las Heras Ballell

   Series: UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law

   The topics addressed in this book have traditionally been covered in separate publications on civil and commercial law. This dualism of regimes has made it difficult for students and professionals alike to comprehend Spanish private law as a whole. In the past this has led to inefficient...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
9. Sedition and the Advocacy of Violence

   Free Speech and Counter-Terrorism

   By Sarah Sorial

   This book employs the theoretical framework of ‘speech act theory’ to analyse current legislative frameworks and cases pertaining to sedition or the advocacy of violence and the issue of freedom of speech. An analysis of the relation between speech and action offers a promising way of clarifying...

   Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
10. Cross-Border Law Enforcement

    Regional Law Enforcement Cooperation – European, Australian and Asia-Pacific Perspectives

    Edited by Saskia Hufnagel, Clive Harfield, Simon Bronitt

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnational Crime and Criminal Law

    This innovative volume explores issues of law enforcement cooperation across borders from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. In doing so it adopts a comparative framework hitherto unexplored; namely the EU and the Australsian/Asia-Pacific region whose relative geopolitical remoteness from each...

    Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge