Free Download Comparative Tort Law: Cases, Materials, and Exercises By Thomas Kadner Graziano, Andrew Tettenborn, Christopher Booth, Molly Reid
2018 | 619 Pages | ISBN: 1138567728 | PDF | 5 MB
Comparative Tort Law promotes a 'learning by doing' approach to comparative tort law and comparative methodology. Each chapter starts with a case scenario followed by questions and expertly selected material, such as: legislation, extracts of case law, soft law principles, and (where appropriate) extracts of legal doctrine. Using this material, students are invited to:* solve the proposed scenario according to the laws of several jurisdictions;* compare the approaches and solutions they have identified;* evaluate their respective pros and cons; and* reflect upon the most appropriate approach and solution.This book is essential reading for all students and scholars of comparative tort law and comparative law methodology and is the ideal companion for those wishing to both familiarise themselves with real-world materials and understand the many diverse approaches to modern tort law.

Free Download The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective By Crawford Young
1997 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0300068794 | PDF | 20 MB
In this comprehensive and original study, a distinguished specialist and scholar of African affairs argues that the current crisis in African development can be traced directly to European colonial rule, which left the continent with a "singularly difficult legacy" that is unique in modern history.Crawford Young proposes a new conception of the state, weighing the different characteristics of earlier European empires (including those of Holland, Portugal, England, and Venice) and distilling their common qualities. He then presents a concise and wide-ranging history of colonization in Africa, from the era of construction through consolidation and decolonization. Young argues that several qualities combined to make the European colonial experience in Africa distinctive. The high number of nations competing for power around the continent and the necessity to achieve effective occupation swiftly yet make the colonies self-financing drove colonial powers toward policies of "ruthless extractive action." The persistent, virulent racism that established a distance between rulers and subjects was especially central to African colonial history.Young concludes by turning his sights to other regions of the once-colonized world, comparing the fates of former African colonies to their counterparts elsewhere. In tracing both the overarching traits and variations in African colonial states, he makes a strong case that colonialism has played a critical role in shaping the fate of this troubled continent.

Free Download Muslim Societies: Historical and Comparative Aspects By Sato Tsugitaka
2004 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 0415332540 | PDF | 2 MB
This volume examines Muslim societies across Europe, North Africa, Central Asia and South Asia from the eighteenth century to the present, providing fresh insight through comparison. Movements and populations covered include the nineteenth century North African Sansusi movement and its relationships to Sufis and Arabs of the region, Soviet and Chinese Central Asia, Muslim-Hindu relationships in South Asia, Muslims in Syria and Muslim immigrants in Europe.

Free Download Covering Muslims: American Newspapers in Comparative Perspective by Erik Bleich, A. Maurits van der Veen
English | December 14, 2021 | ISBN: 0197611710, 0197611729 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 4.7 MB
An examination of how American newspaper articles on Muslims are strikingly negative by any measure.

Free Download Michèle Lamont, "Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective "
English | ISBN: 1138217778 | 2016 | 188 pages | EPUB | 1241 KB
Multiculturalism and diversity have raised a number of challenges for liberal democracy, not least the stigmatization of people in response to these developments. In this book, leading experts from a range of disciplines look at the responses to stigmatization from the perspectives of ordinary people. They use a range of case studies drawn from the US, Brazil, Canada, France, Israel, South Africa, and Sweden: the first systematic qualitative and cross-national exploration of how diverse minority groups respond to stigmatization in the course of their everyday lives.

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English | ISBN: 9811999929 | 2023 | 383 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book documents and analyses the differentiated control policies, the determinant factors behind, social resilience, and international relations during the pandemic from a comparative perspective in a facts-based, data-supporting manner. The intermittent outbreak of cases, public sentiments after long anxiety, questions over the efficacy of vaccines, have forced governments as well as the public to rethink differing approaches and policies in the combat against not just COVID, but the delta variant. In this context, this book establishes itself as a timely product, perhaps the first of its kind, to provide a widely covered individual country-based observation of policies, with an emphasis on multidimensional determinant factors behind the policies. A comparative study of social resilience during the pandemic constitutes another highlight of the book. The different policies tested social resilience differently in parameters such as mortality rates, vaccination coverage, social mobility, travel arrangements, trust in government, and general human development. Above and beyond observations and analyses at local and national levels, this book expands its scope to incorporate international relations, contemplating over the impacts of the pandemic on international relations, power shifts, and new world/global orders, crystallized in the indisputable rise of China.

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English | ISBN: 0198749139 | 2016 | 300 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Euro-Crisis and the legal and institutional responses to it have had important constitutional implications on the architecture of the European Union (EU). Going beyond the existing literature, Federico Fabbrini's book takes a broad look and examines how the crisis and its aftermath have changed relations of power in the EU, disaggregating three different dimensions: (1) the vertical relations of power between the member states and the EU institutions, (2) the relations of power between the political branches and the courts, and (3) the horizontal relations of power between the EU member states themselves.

Free Download Christopher McCrudden, Nigel Bowles, "Reasoning Rights: Comparative Judicial Engagement"
English | 2014 | pages: 433 | ISBN: 1849462526, 1509908439 | PDF | 3,0 mb
This book is about judicial reasoning in human rights cases. The aim is to explore the question: how is it that notionally universal norms are reasoned by courts in such significantly different ways? What is the shape of this reasoning; which techniques are common across the transnational jurisprudence; and which are particular?

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2020 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 9004420037 | PDF | 19 MB
In Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation Joshua Samuel engages in constructing an embodied comparative theology of liberation by comparing divine possessions among Hindu and Christian Dalits in South India.

Free Download Andrew R C Simpson, "Comparative Perspectives in Scottish and Norwegian Legal History, Trade and Seafaring, 1200-1800 "
English | ISBN: 1399503855 | 2023 | 344 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book brings together experts in Norwegian and Scottish legal, economic and political history to explore significant points of contact and similarities in the ways in which the laws of Scotland and Norway developed. It breaks new ground, considering Scots law in terms of its historical interactions and similarities with another national legal system, rather than in terms of its place at the intersection between the common law and the civilian traditions.