Screen LibraryA study of mixed legal systems : endangered, entrenched or blended /
"This book includes case studies of a number of systems from across the globe: Cyprus, Guyana, Jersey, Mauritius, the Philippines, Quebec, St. Lucia, Scotland, and the Seychelles. Each combines its legal legacies in novel ways. Large and small, in Europe and beyond, some are sovereign, some par...
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Ashgate,
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| Publisher Address: | Farnham, Surrey, England : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Juris diversitas
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| Summary: |
"This book includes case studies of a number of systems from across the globe: Cyprus, Guyana, Jersey, Mauritius, the Philippines, Quebec, St. Lucia, Scotland, and the Seychelles. Each combines its legal legacies in novel ways. Large and small, in Europe and beyond, some are sovereign, some part of larger political units. Some are monolingual, some bilingual, some multilingual."--Provided by publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 256 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781472441775 (hardback) : 147244177X (hardback) |
| Index Number: | K236 |
| CLC: | D908 |
| Call Number: | D908/F241 |
| Contents: | Scotland : is the Tartan fading? / Sue Farran -- Guyana : mosaic or melting pot? / Christine Toppin-Allahar -- Philippines : the twentieth century as the common law's century / Pacifico A. Agabin -- Jersey : avoiding the fate of the Dodo / Sir Philip Bailhache -- Mauritius : capitulation, consolidation, creation / Tony Angelo -- Seychelles : things fall apart? the mixing of fate, free will, and imposition in the laws of seychelles / Mathilda Twomey -- Quebec : first impressions can be misleading / Sophie Morin -- Saint Lucia : the Quebec connection : parallelism, convergence and divergence / Jane Matthews Glenn -- Cyprus : everything changes and nothing remains still / Achilles C. Emiliandes. |