The legal system of the People's Republic of China has seen significant changes since legal reforms began in 1978. At the end of the second decade of legal reform, law-making and institution-building have reached impressive levels. Understanding the operation and possible futures of law in the...

The “global” dimension of sport is, in the first instance, regulatory, and it embraces the whole complex of norms produced and implemented by regulatory sporting regimes at the international and domestic levels. These rules include not only private norms set by the International Olympic...

The author explores the current state of law governing the custody of minor children in the People's Republic of China. She concludes that current provisions are still too generalized to be effective; that the legal mechanisms administering the custody system are not functioning well; and that...

Is the common law efficient? Neoclassical economists debate whether our inherited systems of judge-made law maximize wealth whereas Austrian economists typically adopt much different standards. The article reviews neoclassical and Austrian arguments about efficiency in the common law. After...

Al-qawāʿid al-fiqhīyah or legal maxims of Islamic Law are the general rules of fiqh that portray the goals and objectives of the Sharīʿah. They are applied in various cases that come under the common rulings and play a very important role in deducing many rules of fiqh since they provide a...

Social scientists have paid insufficient attention to the role of law in constituting the economic institutions of capitalism. Part of this neglect emanates from inadequate conceptions of the nature of law itself. Spontaneous conceptions of law and property rights that downplay the role of the...