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Separation of Powers in African Constitutionalism
Edited by Charles M. Fombad
Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law
- The first book addressing all the constitutional traditions of the African continent
- Permits the reader to compare constitutional developments across African nations and worldwide
- Written from a range of African perspectives, offering expert knowledge of African constitutional law
Choice of Law
Dean Symeon C. Symeonides
Oxford Commentaries on American Law
- Provides in-depth, sophisticated coverage of the choice-of-law part of Conflicts Law (or Private International Law) as practiced in the U.S., with necessary comparisons with foreign laws
- Explains the doctrinal and methodological foundations of choice of law and then focuses on its actual practice, examining not only what courts say but also what they do
- Identifies the emerging decisional patterns and formulates predictions about likely outcomes
- Written by an award winning author and renowned expert in conflicts law
The Purse and the Sword
The Trials of Israel's Legal Revolution
Daniel Friedmann
- Presents a critical analysis of Israel's legal system in the context of its politics, history, and society
- Examines the extensive powers that Israel's Supreme Court arrogated to itself since the 1980s
- Traces the historic transformation of Israel's legal system and the shifts in the balance of power between the branches of government
- Developments are detailed in the context of major issues faced by a modern Israel
- Analyzes the causes of public distrust of the Court and the rebalancing of power towards the political branches
Parliaments and the European Court of Human Rights
Alice Donald and Philip Leach
- Provides an authoritative exploration of democratic legitimacy in human rights interpretation, adjudication, and implemetation; combining new empirical data with theoretical insights
- Offers a detailed investigation of five European states with differing records of compliance with ECtHR decisions
- Analyses parliamentary actors in terms of their own actions, and their relationship with other domestic and supranational actors
Islamic Legal Revival
Reception of European Law and Transformations in Islamic Legal Thought in Egypt, 1875DS1952
Leonard Wood
Oxford Islamic Legal Studies
- A timely examination of the movement to revive Islamic law
- Presents for the first time unknown aspects of the legal and intellectual history of the Islamic world and Islamic political movements.
- Accessible to a wide audience, both specialist and non-specialist alike
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