International Encyclopaedia of Laws

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Civil Procedure (Kluwer Law International)
Provides in-depth descriptions and analysis of numerous domestic systems. National monographs describe the main features of each country’s judicial organization, the rules governing the jurisdiction of the courts, the actual court proceedings, the rules of evidence, the principles governing preliminary seizure and the enforcement of judgments, and some elements of national arbitration. In addition, a forthcoming EU monograph analyses the Regulation 44/2001, as well as the Conventions of Lugano and San Sebastian. An international monograph will deal with international multi-lateral treaties.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Commercial and Economic Law (Kluwer Law Online)
Provides national monographs and European case law on commercial and economic law topics including broker/client relations, contracts affecting competition, and government taxation incentives for economic activities. Provides access to national monographs from Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Macau, Singapore, Sweden, Turkey, Uruguay, U.S.A., and Yugoslavia.

International Encyclopedia of Laws: Competition Law (Kluwer Law Online)
Provides an in-depth description of the antitrust laws of more than 30 Countries and the legislation of the European Community. Each monograph includes a description of the substantive and procedural rules of the particular jurisdiction, a description of the leading cases, and a bibliography.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Constitutional Law (Kluwer Law International)
This is the online version of the 11-volume looseleaf: International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Constitutional Law. Presents a country-by-country survey of constitutional law throughout the world, and is also in the process of publishing, in one source, all of the constitutions of the world in English translations.

Each national monograph includes detailed information of the countrys political system, historical background, sources of constitutional law, form of government (outlining the legal status, the competence and the working of central state powers, etc.), state form and subdivisions of the state, component states and decentralized authorities, citizenship (especially nationality and the legal position of aliens), and specific problems such as foreign relations, taxing and spending power, emergency laws, the power of the military, and the constitutional relation between Church and State.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Contracts (Kluwer Law International)
Sheds light on “the fine print” in the world of contracts, helping ensure the viability (or probe the non-viability) of these detail-oriented instruments. Each national monograph is divided into two parts: the first addresses the general principles at issue, and the second covers the specific types of contracts. The work also addresses international aspects of contract law. For each jurisdiction the work provides an introduction to the law and a selected bibliography.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Corporations and Partnerships (Kluwer Law Online)
Provides up-to-date comprehensive information on variety of corporate and partnership considerations that arise in international business, such as mergers, rights and duties of interested parties, stock exchange directives, labor laws, and takeovers. Provides access to national monographs from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, Hellas, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Tonga, Turkey, United Kingdom, and Uruguay. The CODEX compiles European legislation focusing on company and accounting law, and an additional volume provides access to the most important European case law.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Criminal Law (Kluwer Law Online)
Provides insight into criminal law and procedure in different countries. For each country, an introduction presents the requisite background knowledge for understanding the principles of criminal justice, and then proceeds to a detailed examination of substantive criminal law – its general principles, the principles of criminal responsibility or liability, and the grounds for the justification of criminal offences. A third part is focused upon criminal procedure in each country: the general characteristics of the procedure, the organization of investigation, pre-trial proceedings, trial stage and appeals. National monographs from Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, The Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Yugoslavia, and Zimbabwe are included.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Cyber Law (Kluwer Law Online)
An introduction to legal subjects relating to digital information and communications technology. Provides access to national monographs on subjects including regulation of the ICT market, protection of intellectual property in the ICT sector, ICT contracts, electronic transactions, non-contractual liability, privacy protection and computer related crime. Includes national monographs from Australia, Cyprus, Hellas, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Also includes monographs on supranational and international cyber law issues.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Energy Law (Kluwer Law International)
Covers national and international energy law. Each national monograph contains a general introduction, a description of the country’s energy legislation, an overview of the basic principles of energy law, the historical background, the role of governmental institutions, and the sources of energy law in that country’s legal system.
Each country’s regulatory framework concerning electricity, gas, petrol and coal is fully set forth, with emphasis on the aspects of production, exploitation, transport, distribution, and consumption. Each monograph also deals with the interactions of energy law with environmental law, tax law and competition law. In addition, Energy Law includes international monographs covering international legislation and treaties and the energy law of the European Union.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Environmental Law (Kluwer Law International)
Covers national and international environmental law. National monographs contain a general introduction and an overview of the basic principles of environmental law. They provide historical background, and describe the role of governmental institutions, as well as the sources of environmental law. In addition, international monographs cover international legislation and treaties, and the environmental legislation of the European Economic Community.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Family and Succession Law (Kluwer Law International)
Comprehensive comparative source that includes national monographs on family law together with marital property law and succession law. Includes a monograph for the European Union. Forthcoming supplements will include international monographs describing the activities of several international organizations in the domain of family and succession law, such as the United Nations, the Council of Europe, and the International Commission on Civil Status.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Intellectual Property (Kluwer Law International)
Provides an overview of the legislation and policy on intellectual property in a large number of countries. Information is also provided on all major international conventions and on international bodies like the EU and WIPO/OMPI.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Intergovernmental Organizations Law (Kluwer Law International)
Comprehensive information on the most important Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs). Some 55 leading organizations will be described in separate monographs of approximately 150 pages each.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Insurance Law (Kluwer Law Online)
Concerns all aspects of insurance law in the industrialized countries of the world. Includes general background information and specific country law in each national monograph. In addition to national monographs, Insurance Law contains a Codex with the basic legislation which the European Union, the European Economic Area, and the Swiss Confederation have adopted with regard to private insurance. Forthcoming international monographs will examine European Community Insurance as well as the roles of prominent associations such as AIDA (Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances), BIPAR (Bureau International des Producteurs d’Assurances et de Riassurances) and C.E.A.(Comiti Europien des Assurances).

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Labour Law and Industrial Relations (Kluwer Law Online)
Designed to provide information to the international business and labour relations communities; to facilitate comparative research in the field; and to contribute to the growing harmonisation of labour law and standards worldwide. Contains 59 detailed country-by-country monographs and eight in-depth international monographs as well as five volumes of case law and five volumes of reprinted legislation.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Media Law (Kluwer Law Online)
Offers a country-by-country survey of media law throughout the world. Surveys each country’s media landscape and analyzes the laws governing press freedom, including those concerning access to information, defamation and privacy. Each national monograph outlines the regulatory structures controlling print and electronic media (radio and television, but also new media, like online and mobile services) in these countries. Legal acts, case law, as well as ethical codes used by journalists are presented and analyzed. An international monograph covers the freedom of speech provisions in various international treaties.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Medical Law (Kluwer Law International)
Covers national and international medical law. Each national monograph contains, a general introduction, and a description for the country of the law related to the medical profession, such as access to the medical profession, illegal practice of medicine and control over the practice of medicine; the physician-patient relationship (the rights and duties of physicians and patients) and specific issues such as abortion and euthanasia; and, the national law dealing with the physician in relation to his colleagues, to other health care providers and the health care system. An international monograph covers the World Health Organization in both its international and regional aspects.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Private International Law (Kluwer Law International)
Provides coverage of national laws on conflict of laws, now more commonly referred to as private international law. It presents country-by-country national monographs dealing with the statutes, regulations and case law each country applies to cases involving transnational issues in, e.g., business, family or inheritance law. Beginning with a general introduction to the private international law of the country concerned, each monograph goes on to discuss choice of law technique, sources of private international law, the relevant connection with the law of a country and the connecting factors, the rules of choice of law on natural and legal persons, contractual and non-contractual obligations, movable and immovable property, intangible property rights, company law, family law, marriage, cohabitation, registered partnerships, property, maintenance, child law, and succession law, including testamentary dispositions. Each national monograph concludes with an overview of the country’s relevant civil procedure, examining lex fori and issues of national and international jurisdiction, acceptability and enforcement of foreign judgments, and international arbitration.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Property and Trust (Kluwer Law Online)
Focuses on national monographs and international treaties and conventions related to property and trust law. Provides a practical country-by-country analysis and guide concerning topics of immovable property and real property, movable and personal property, acquisitions of property, and securities for Australia, Colombia, England and Wales, Finland, Greece, The Philippines, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Pacific, Spain, and Switzerland.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Social Security Law (Kluwer Law International)
Provides information on the social security schemes in various countries. The legal mechanisms of the following areas of social protection are covered in each monograph: health care, employment injuries and occupational diseases, sickness benefits, pensions, unemployment and family benefits. An international social security law codex provides the main international texts, in English, that regulate social security. The most relevant cases from the ECJ are also included.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Sports Law (Kluwer Law Online)
Focuses on a variety of economic, social, commercial, cultural, and political aspects of sports law including self-regulation, national and international sports associations, criminal law, labor law, commercial law, and tax law. Provides access to monographs on sports organization, employment, doping, and commerce from Australia, Bulgaria, Hellas, India, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, South Africa, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Also includes documents from international public and private organizations.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Tort Law (Kluwer Law International)
The General Introduction of each national monograph discusses the aims of the law of Torts, the distinction between tort and crime, and the relationship between tort and contract. The monograph is then divided into six Parts: Liability for One’s Own Act; Liability for Acts of Others; Forms of Strict Liability; Defenses and Exemption Clauses; Causation; Remedies.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Transport Law (Kluwer Law Online)
The national monographs deal with transport law in its broadest sense: jurisdiction, state immunity, and the main sources of transport law. For maritime law, includes information on the legal status of the vessel, its acquisition, ownership and registration. Other topics discussed are maritime liens and mortgages, the position of master and crew, liability and limitation of liability (L.L.M.C. Convention 1976), charter parties and Transport under Bill of Lading (Hague-Visby Rules), transport by air (Warsaw Convention and related conventions), transport by rail (C.O.T.I.F. Convention) and inland navigation. A special chapter is devoted to Multimodal Transport. Finally, European Union competition law in the field of transport is also discussed. International monographs address marine pollution, salvage, the Hamburg rules, the UN Convention on Multimodal Transport, the Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims (the L.L.M.C. 1976 Convention), and the roles of the International Maritime Organization (I.M.O.), the Comiti Maritime International (C.M.I.), and BIMCO.