The diffusion of law
Subtitle: the movement of laws and norms around the world
By: by Sue Farran, James Gallen, Jennifer Hendry and Christa Rautenbach
Series: Juris diversitas
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK England; Burlington, VT, USA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781472460400; 9781472460417; 9781472460424
Subjects: Law; Mobility; Foreign influences; Legal polycentricity; Law and globalization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Sue Farran and Christa Rautenbach; title: Infusion of the diffused : four circles of diffusion infusing the legal system of Turkey / Esin Őrücü; title: The diffusion of western legal concepts in Kuwait : reflections on the state, the legal system and legal education from comparative and historical perspectives / Myra Williamson; title: Diffusion of Islamic law in UK : the case of the "special guardianship" / Rita Duca; title: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council : common law and its local variations in the commonwealth / Pamela Martino; title: "Lease, locazioni and kera" : merging legal concepts in postcolonial Malta / David Zammit and Kurt Xerri; title: Legal capital is out - EEIG is cool! : how the evaporation of legal capital in EU private companies might provide a revival opportunity for EEIGs / Alessio Bartolacelli; title: The urban diffusion of local direct democracy between switzerland and the united states / Thomas Favre-Bulle; title: The "margin of appreciation" in ECHR case-law as a boundary line to legal transplants / Alessandra Pera; title: The feature of droit commun in the disposition preliminaire of the Civil Code of Quebec : a clue to the bijurality of the legal system? / Biagio Andò; title: Law in changing circumstances : evolution of liability for succession debts in Poland / Elwira Macierzyńska-Franaszczyk; title: Albanian civil law and the influence of foreign laws / Juliana Latifi; title: Svěřenský fond (trust fund) : a daring new legal transplant in Czech law / Kateřina Ronovská; title: Diffusing bad ideas : what the migration of the separation of powers means for comparative law / Eoin Carolan.