This ambitious study of the development and incorporation of sharia and Islamic and customary law traditions into national legal, political, and social state structures provides an in-depth analysis of the role of sharia in the historical and legal formation of twelve representative Muslim states and ...
The Landmark Cases series highlights the historical antecedents of what are widely considered to be the leading cases in a discipline, and seeks to provide contexts in which to better understand how and why certain cases came to be regarded as the 'landmark' cases in any given field. Succession law's ...
If you could change one part of the criminal law, what would it be? The editors put this question to nine leading academics and practitioners. The first nine chapters of the collection present their responses in the form of legal reform proposals, with topics ranging across criminal law, criminal justice ...
