Mixed legal systems, east and west / edited by Vernon Valentine Palmer, Mohamed Y. Mattar and Anna Koppel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palmer, Vernon V., editor.

Maṭar, Muḥammad Yaḥyá, editor.

Koppel, Anna, editor.

Series:

Juris diversitas.

Juris diversitas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legal polycentricity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book takes us far beyond the usual focus of comparative law with analysis of a broad range of jurisdictions, including mixtures of common and civil law, and also those mixing Islamic and/or traditional legal systems with those derived from common and/or civil law traditions. The discussion is situated within the broader context of the continuing tides of globalization, the emergence of Islamic governments in some parts of the Middle East, the calls for a legal status for Islamic law in some European countries, and the increasing focus on traditional and customary norms of governance in po

Contents:

"As slippery as an eel"? : comparative law and polijural systems / Biagio Andò

To hybridity and beyond : reflections on legal and normative complexity / Seán Patrick Donlan

Mixed jurisdictions : the roads ahead / Luis Muñiz Argüelles

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

The parts that make a whole? : the mixity of the laws of Sseychelles / Mathilda Twomey

Reconstructing mixity : sources of law and legal method in Cyprus / Nikitas E. Hatzimihail

Managing legal diversity : Cameroonian bijuralism at a critical crossroad / Charles Manga Fombad

Pacific punch : tropical flavors of mixedness in the island republic of Vanuatu / Sue Farran

"I'm in the east, but my law is from the west" : the east-west dilemma in the Israeli mixed legal system / Nir Kedar

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

The influence of Philippine indigenous law on the development of new concepts of social justice / Pacifico Agabin

Turkey's synthetic civilian tradition in a "covert" mix with Islam as tradition : a novel hybridity? / Esin Örücü

Integration of Islamic law in the fabric of legal thought in Egypt / Mohamed Ahmed Serag

The influence of religion on law in the Iranian legal system / Naser Ghorbannia

The reception of Islamic law in Sri Lanka and its interplay with western legal traditions / Anton Cooray

The contribution of the courts in the integration of Muslim law into the mixed fabric of South African law / Christa Rautenbach

Islamic law and international law in the Islamic republic of Iran's constitution / Seyed Mostafa Mirmohammadi Azizi

A study of the consolidation of Islamic law and modern western law in the Iranian penal code / Hossein Mir Mohammad Sadeghi

The ancient Euro/Mediterranean radication of the aversion for usury / Ignazio Castellucci

Settlement of Islamic finance disputes : the case of Malaysia and Saudi Arabia / Mohd Zakhiri Md Nor

Mixed legal jurisdictions and clinical legal education : latest trends / David McQuoid-Mason.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-315-59565-6

1-317-09538-3

1-138-63903-6

1-317-09537-5

1-4724-3107-3

9781315595658

OCLC:

896873005