Mixed legal systems, east and west
By: edited by Vernon Valentine Palmer, Tulane University, USA; Mohamed Y. Mattar, John Hopkins University USA; and Anna Koppel, John Hopkins University USA
Contributors: Maṭar, Muḥammad Yaḥyá, editor
Series: Juris diversitas
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781472431066; 9781472431073; 9781472431080
Subjects: Legal polycentricity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "As slippery as an eel"? : comparative law and polijural systems / Biagio Andò; title: To hybridity and beyond : reflections on legal and normative complexity / Seán Patrick Donlan; title: Mixed jurisdictions : the roads ahead / Luis Muñiz Argüelles; title: Do pronouncements of the constitutional court bind erga omnes? The common law doctrine of stare decisis versus the civil law doctrine of nonbinding case law within a Maltese law context / Kevin Aquilina; title: The parts that make a whole? The mixity of the laws of Seychelles / Mathilda Twomey; title: Reconstructing mixity : sources of law and legal method in Cyprus / Nikitas E. Hatzimihail; title: Managing legal diversity : Cameroonian bijuralism at a critical crossroad / Charles Manga Fombad; title: Pacific punch : tropical flavors of mixedness in the Island Republic of Vanuatu / Sue Farran; title: "I'm in the east, but my law is from the west" : the east-west dilemma in the Israeli mixed legal system / Nir Kedar; title: Patterns of legal mixing in Eritrea : examining the impact of customary law, Islamic law, colonial law, socialist law, and authoritarian revolutionary dogma / Daniel R. Mekonnen; title: The influence of Philippine indigenous law on the development of new concepts of social justice / Pacifico Agabin; title: Turkey's synthetic civilian tradition in a "covert" mix with Islam as tradition : a novel hybridity? / Esin Örücü; title: Integration of Islamic law in the fabric of legal thought in Egypt / Mohamed Ahmed Serag; title: The influence of religion on law in the Iranian legal system / Naser Ghorbannia; title: The reception of Islamic law in Sri Lanka and its interplay with western legal traditions / Anton Cooray; title: The contribution of the courts in the integration of Muslim law into the mixed fabric of South African law / Christa Rautenbach; title: Islamic law and international law in the Islamic Republic of Iran's constitution / Seyed Mostafa Mirmohammadi Azizi; title: A study of the consolidation of Islamic law and modern western law in the Iranian penal code / Hossein Mir Mohammad Sadeghi; title: The ancient Euro/Mediterranean radication of the aversion for usury / Ignazio Castellucci; title: Settlement of Islamic finance disputes : the case of Malaysia and Saudi Arabia / Mohd Zakhiri Md Nor; title: Mixed legal jurisdictions and clinical legal education : latest trends / David McQuoid-Mason.