Mixed legal systems, east and west / edited by Vernon Valentine Palmer, Tulane University, USA; Mohamed Y. Mattar, John Hopkins University USA; and Anna Koppel, John Hopkins University USA.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"As slippery as an eel"? : comparative law and polijural systems / Biagio Andò -- To hybridity and beyond : reflections on legal and normative complexity / Seán Patrick Donlan -- Mixed jurisdictions : the roads ahead / Luis Muñiz Argüelles -- Do pronouncements of the constitutional court bind erga omnes? The common law doctrine of stare decisis versus the civil law doctrine of nonbinding case law within a Maltese law context / Kevin Aquilina -- The parts that make a whole? The mixity of the laws of Seychelles / Mathilda Twomey -- Reconstructing mixity : sources of law and legal method in Cyprus / Nikitas E. Hatzimihail -- Managing legal diversity : Cameroonian bijuralism at a critical crossroad / Charles Manga Fombad -- Pacific punch : tropical flavors of mixedness in the Island Republic of Vanuatu / Sue Farran -- "I'm in the east, but my law is from the west" : the east-west dilemma in the Israeli mixed legal system / Nir Kedar -- Patterns of legal mixing in Eritrea : examining the impact of customary law, Islamic law, colonial law, socialist law, and authoritarian revolutionary dogma / Daniel R. Mekonnen -- The influence of Philippine indigenous law on the development of new concepts of social justice / Pacifico Agabin -- Turkey's synthetic civilian tradition in a "covert" mix with Islam as tradition : a novel hybridity? / Esin Örücü -- Integration of Islamic law in the fabric of legal thought in Egypt / Mohamed Ahmed Serag -- The influence of religion on law in the Iranian legal system / Naser Ghorbannia -- The reception of Islamic law in Sri Lanka and its interplay with western legal traditions / Anton Cooray -- The contribution of the courts in the integration of Muslim law into the mixed fabric of South African law / Christa Rautenbach -- Islamic law and international law in the Islamic Republic of Iran's constitution / Seyed Mostafa Mirmohammadi Azizi -- A study of the consolidation of Islamic law and modern western law in the Iranian penal code / Hossein Mir Mohammad Sadeghi -- The ancient Euro/Mediterranean radication of the aversion for usury / Ignazio Castellucci -- Settlement of Islamic finance disputes : the case of Malaysia and Saudi Arabia / Mohd Zakhiri Md Nor -- Mixed legal jurisdictions and clinical legal education : latest trends / David McQuoid-Mason.