Natural language processing (NLP) based approaches have recently received attention for
legal systems of several countries. It is of interest to study the wide variety of legal systems …

This volume examines the important question of whether or not international human rights
and Islamic law are compatible. It asks whether Muslim States can comply with international …

Taxonomy is as important in the law as in any other discipline. It provides the intellectual
framework of the law and it makes the law's complexity more manageable. Today barely …

Drawing on theories of legal pluralism, this book tests whether and to what extent claims of
the modern nation-state laws to exclusive dominance over other spheres are tenable, and …

In this new interpretation of the modernization and secularization of Turkey, Andrew Davison
demonstrates the usefulness of hermeneutics in political analysis. A hermeneutic approach …

World Criminal Justice Systems, Ninth Edition, provides an understanding of major world
criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's …

This book provides an introduction to the laws of the Middle East, defining the contours of a
field of study that deserves to be called'Middle Eastern law'. It introduces Middle Eastern law …

Page 1 Legislating Authority Sin and Crime in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey Ruth A. Miller
Page 2 MIDDLE EAST STUDIES HISTORY, POLITICS, AND LAW Edited by Shahrough Akhavi …

Evidentiary rules employed in judicial proceedings are not strictly applied in international
arbitration. Although this flexibility with regard to evidentiary matters is often considered a …

There is a tendency in the West to exaggerate the gap between the evolution of Western
family laws and the evolution of family laws in Muslim countries. By comparing the changes …