Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Fleming, Christopher T., Equity and Trusts in Sanskrit Jurisprudence. (British Academy Monographs) 526 pp. 2025:3 (British Academy, UK) <740-432>
ISBN 978-0-19-726787-5 hard ¥39,639.- (税込) GB￡ 143.00

Equity and Trusts in Sanskrit Jurisprudence outlines the core principles of equity and trusts in Sanskrit jurisprudence (Dharmaastra) and traces their application in the practical legal administration of religious and charitable endowments throughout Indian history. Dharmaastra describes phenomena that, in Anglo-American jurisprudence, are associated with courts of equity: the management of religious and charitable trusts; and the guardianship of those who lack legal capacity. Drawing on Sanskrit jurisprudential and philosophical texts, ancient inscriptions, Persian legal documents, colonial-era law reports, and contemporary case law, Equity and Trusts demonstrates that India's rulers have drawn on rich and venerable Sanskrit jurisprudential principles of equity and trusts in their efforts to regulate religious and charitable endowments. Equity and Trusts presents the history of India as a history of trusts, revealing how the contemporary law of Hindu religious endowments is subtended by a rich melange of Sanskritic, Persianate, British, and constitutional jurisprudential principles.

Kamal, Daanika, Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of 'Bad' and 'Mad' Women. (Clarendon Studies in Criminology) 232 pp. 2025:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <740-433>
ISBN 978-0-19-895344-9 hard ¥27,720.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00

Pakistani women are increasingly pursuing legal avenues against acts of domestic violence. Their claims, however, are often dismissed through character allegations that label them as 'bad' women in need of control, or 'mad' women not to be trusted. Domestic Violence in Pakistan explores why the subjectivities of women victims are constructed in particular ways, and how these subjectivities are captured and negotiated in the Pakistani legal system. Drawing on feminist poststructuralist accounts relating to the use of gendering strategies in institutional and disciplinary settings and based on an analysis of over a hundred case files and judgements, seventy-two interviews, and court observations in three cities of Pakistan, this book shadows the experiences of women victims of domestic violence in both criminal law and family law proceedings. It captures and offers empirical insights in relation to gendered subject formation in discursive spaces; ranging from the use of societal narratives that minimise and silence women's harms, to the deployment of police mechanisms that assist in maintaining the 'secrecy' of familial violence, and the application and enactment of boilerplate lawyerly strategies to present alternative legal 'truths.' Amidst regulations of the public versus the private and understandings of rights versus duties, Domestic Violence in Pakistan explores how these practices construct the victim-subject of domestic violence in a way that not only subjectivise her, but also secure her within the field of that subjectification; setting her up to be viewed by the judiciary through the lens of the allegations applied to her.

フィリピンにおけるイスラーム、法、国家
Lindsey, Tim / Steiner, Kerstin, Islam, Law and the State in the Philippines. (Routledge Law in Asia) 216 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-434>
ISBN 978-1-032-88191-1 hard ¥40,194.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book investigates the development of Islam in the Philippines from a legal perspective, investigating Islam through the lens of the institutions of Islamic law.Drawing on original fieldwork, including in Mindanao, this comprehensive book covers a wide range of topics, including Islamic leadership and authority (mufti, darul ifta, and fatawa); Islamic judges and dispute resolution in Islamic courts, and alternative forms of dispute resolution; legislative codification of Islamic law especially in private law (marriage and divorce); Islamic banking and finance; and madrasahs and Islamic education. The book also offers a comprehensive, detailed, and timely socio-legal analysis of controversies relating to Islam and the long-running conflict in the Southern Philippines as Moro communities struggle with the challenges of transition to the long-awaited Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao. This is contextualised against the wider history and politics of the southern Philippines, from pre-colonial times to 2024. The authors offer a detailed and nuanced analysis based on primary documents, as well as an account of the existing literature in the field.The book greatly enhances understandings of the social, political, and historical context of current developments in Islam in the Philippines. It will be of interest to researchers studying Islam and the administration of Islamic law, Malay Muslim communities in Southeast Asia, and the history and politics of the Philippines.

ASEAN政府間人権委員会
Ramcharan, Robin, The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights: Prevention, Mitigation, Remedies and Redress. (Human Rights and International Law) 372 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-435>
ISBN 978-1-032-60045-1 hard ¥40,194.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book systematically documents the practice of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) on the protection of human rights. It provides a template of universal standards, spanning prevention, response and mitigation, and redress and remedies, from which to gauge the performance of the AICHR. The evidence points to a Commission that leaves much to be desired and whose protective function needs significant improvement. Nevertheless, the National Representatives of Member States to the AICHR have taken important and positive steps that lay the groundwork for a more protection-oriented Commission. The work offers avenues for the National Representatives, the ASEAN Member States and civil society to enhance the protection function of the AICHR and to thus more closely align it with hard-won international standards and best practices. The book will be of interest to representatives of the AICHR, human rights practitioners, ASEAN policymakers, and academics, students, researchers and policymakers in the areas of international relations, human rights law and Asian studies.

Ye, Ningyao, Deposit Insurance in China: Lessons from the US and UK Experience. 234 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-436>
ISBN 978-1-041-00945-0 hard ¥40,194.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book examines and compares the rationale, design, and implementation of deposit insurance in the US, the UK, and China, with the aim of finding an effective solution for China's nascent deposit insurance scheme by learning from the US and UK models.Deposit insurance, a pillar of the financial safety net that protects insured deposits and serves as a guarantee against losses on insured accounts, has become increasingly important in bank resolution. Using a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this book examines the legal and regulatory issues surrounding deposit insurance schemes in three jurisdictions - the US, the UK, and China. It offers a timely analysis of the operating mechanisms and implications of deposit insurance during the global financial crisis. It also provides an in-depth doctrinal analysis of the US, the UK, and China's deposit insurance laws. Based on these discussions, the author proposes suggestions for reforming China's deposit insurance system and practice.The title will appeal to scholars and students of banking and banking law as well as legal and financial practitioners in the fields of commercial law and banking and financial regulation.