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International Family Law: An Introduction
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International law has become part of everyday family law practice, as lawyers everywhere are confronted with questions regarding the rights of ‘mail-order’ brides, the adoption of children from other countries, the abduction of children by foreign parents, and domestic violence victims seeking asylum. Indeed, globalization is transforming family law, even as families themselves are being redefined. This book provides a practical overview of such issues and also exam… More >>
International Family Law: An Introduction
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International Commercial and Marine Arbitration
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International Commercial and Marine Arbitration analyses and compares commercial-martime arbitration in a number of different legal systems including the US, the UK, Greece and Belgium. The book examines the role of the courts in arbitration in each of these countries, making reference to the latest case law, and also makes extensive reference to French, German, Italian, Austrian, Swiss and Netherlands law. Tracing the historical emergence of the modern system of … More >>
International Commercial and Marine Arbitration
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The Politics of Adoption: International Perspectives on Law, Policy & Practice
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This book updates and significantly extends the first edition published by Springer in 2004. It addresses the social and legal functions of adoption, the changes currently taking place in England & Wales and developments in other common law countries. It identifies themes of commonality and difference in the experience of adoption in a common law context as compared and contrasted with that of civil law countries, other cultures in Asia and with the experience of in… More >>
The Politics of Adoption: International Perspectives on Law, Policy & Practice
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Transnational Commercial Law: International Instruments and Commentary
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This volume contains a collection of all the major transnational commercial law instruments relating to commercial contracts, interspersed with explanatory linking text which identifies key issues covered by the instruments. The explanatory material, together with a detailed index, and internal tables of contents for each instrument, makes this an invaluable source book for the practitioner…. More >>
Transnational Commercial Law: International Instruments and Commentary
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International Law: Cases and Commentary
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Introduces the history and nature of international law, and examines the sources of international law—treatise, custom, general principles, jus cogens, and equity. Also covers important fields of international law: individuals and human rights; recognition and self-determination; war and peace and the United Nations; Antarctica, outer space, the law of the sea, and international environmental laws; and international conflict of laws, foreign sovereign immunity, an… More >>
International Law: Cases and Commentary
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