Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights, and the Malaysian State

Most Muslim-majority countries have legal systems that enshrine both Islam and liberal rights. While not necessarily at odds, these dual commitments nonetheless provide legal and symbolic resources for activists to advance contending visions for their states and societies

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law: Essays in Comparative Legal History …

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F. W. Maitland’s famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own ‘hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history’

Carceral Logics: Human Incarceration and Animal Captivity

Many animal lawyers react to critiques of carceral animal law by contending that punishment is no longer a priority, and that there are only but a handful of anecdotes about over-charging.

Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law

Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law offers the first comprehensive account of the entanglements of Buddhism and constitutional law in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Tibet, Bhutan, China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan.

Big Data and Global Trade Law

This collection explores the relevance of global trade law for data, big data and crossborder data flows. Contributing authors from different disciplines including law, economics and political science analyze developments at the World Trade Organization and in preferential trade venues by asking what future-oriented models for data governance are available and viable in the area of trade law an…

Beyond Borders: The Human Rights of Non-Citizens at Home and Abroad

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Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis

Population ageing, which has been described as one of the four global demographic “megatrends”,1 is quickly becoming a concern for many countries around the world. The growth in the size and proportion of the elderly has many implications, including the fact that there has been, and will continue to be, a significant growth in the number of individuals who are living longer, and because of …

Academic Brands

The first comprehensive analysis of the emergence of academic brands, this book explores how the modern university is being transformed as it competes in an increasingly global economy of higher education where luxury is replacing access.

A Sociology of Transnational Constitutions: Social Foundations of the Post-Na…

This book is the second in a series of volumes intended to provide a broad sociological analysis of the foundations of constitutional law.

A Critical Introduction to International Criminal Law

International criminal law has witnessed a rapid rise since the end of the Cold War. The United Nations refers to the birth of a new ‘age of accountability’, but certain historical objections, such as selectivity or victor’s justice, have never fully gone away, and many of the justice dimensions of international criminal law remain unexplored.