Part I: The Contemporary Nature of Mixed Legal Systems; Chapter 1: "As Slippery as an Eel"? Comparative Law and Polyjural Systems; Chapter 2: To Hybridity and Beyond: Reflections on Legal and Normative Complexity; Chapter 3: Mixed Jurisdictions: The Roads Ahead; Part II: Patterns of Common and Civil Law Hybridities; Chapter 4: 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; Chapter 5: The Parts That Make a Whole? The Mixity of the Laws of Seychelles; Chapter 6: Reconstructing Mixity: Sources of Law and Legal Method in Cyprus; Chapter 7: Managing Legal Diversity: Cameroonian Bijuralism at a Critical Crossroads; Part III: Mixed Legal Systems with Indigenous, Customary, and Religious Law; Chapter 8: Pacific Punch: Tropical Flavors of Mixedness in the Island Republic of Vanuatu; Chapter 9: "I'm in the East, but My Law Is from the West": The East-West Dilemma in the Israeli Mixed Legal System; Chapter 10: Patterns of Legal Mixing in Eritrea: Examining the Impact of Customary Law, Islamic Law, Colonial Law, Socialist Law, and Authoritarian Revolutionary Dogma; Chapter 11: The Influence of Philippine Indigenous Law on the Development of New Concepts of Social Justice; Part IV: The Islamic Legal System and Western Legal Traditions; Chapter 12: Turkey's Synthetic Civilian Tradition in a "Covert" Mix with Islam as Tradition: A Novel Hybrid?; Chapter 13: Integration of Islamic Law in the Fabric of Legal Thought in Egypt; Chapter 14: The Influence of Religion on Law in the Iranian Legal System; Chapter 15: The Reception of Islamic Law in Sri Lanka and Its Interplay with Western Legal Traditions; Chapter 16: The Contribution of the Courts in the Integration of Muslim Law into the Mixed Fabric of South African Law; Part V: Patterns of Mixing in Specialized Areas of the Law; Chapter 17: Islamic Law and International Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran's Constitution; Chapter 18: A Study of the Consolidation of Islamic Law and Modern Western Law in the Iranian Penal Code; Chapter 19: The Ancient Euro-Mediterranean Aversion for Usury; Chapter 20: Settling Islamic Finance Disputes: The Case of Malaysia and Saudi Arabia; Chapter 21: Mixed Legal Jurisdictions and Clinical Legal Education: Latest Trends.