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Reconstructing Marriage
The Legal Status of Relationships in a Changing SocietyBook | 1st edition 2012 | Europe | Caroline SörgjerdIn Reconstructing Marriage - The Legal Status of Relationships in a Changing Society Caroline Sörgjerd explores the essence of the institution of marriage: what is the meaning of marriage today, how has marriage been influenced by the legal recognition of new cohabitation models and what should be the role of the institution of marriage in the future?€96.00 incl. VAT -
Public Forgiveness in Post-Conflict Contexts
Book | 1st edition 2012 | World | Bas van Stokkom, Neelke Doorn, Paul van TongerenThere seems to be a pervasive trend towards public apologies, forms of national introspection and appeals to grant forgiveness. This book discusses the role of forgiveness within processes of peace building and transitional justice. Does ‘forgiveness’ enable a public or political use of the term? Is it possible to forgive on behalf of others, and if so, under what conditions? These conceptual questions are related to reflections on the cultural and religious contexts of expressing forgiveness.€74.00 incl. VAT -
Economic Criteria for Criminalization
Optimizing Enforcement in Case of Environmental ViolationsBook | 1st edition 2012 | Europe | Katarina SvatikovaThis book examines the question why – from an economic perspective – society should enforce certain violations through criminal law, while others through private or administrative law.€72.00 incl. VAT -
The Power of Punitive Damages
Is Europe Missing Out?Book | 1st edition 2012 | Europe | Lotte Meurkens, Emily NordinIn their search for better ways to enforce private and public legal rules, prevent damage, and compensate victims of grave wrongdoing, European legal scholars and policy makers show an increased interest in this particular private law remedy. The twenty-two authors of this book reflect on the pros and cons, applicability, aims and limitations of punitive damages in terms of different legal themes.€114.00 incl. VAT -
Educating European Lawyers
Book | 1st edition 2011 | United Kingdom | Aalt Willem Heringa, Aalt Heringa, Bram AkkermansThis books pays attention to the developments in European law and the effects these have on legal education in general as well as in other fields. Drawing from their own experiences, the authors describe the current state of law, offer perspectives on future developments and explain how they translate these developments in the law school curriculum. All the contributions in this book have in common that each author seeks to better prepare students for a future in a more integrated Europe.€65.00 incl. VAT -
EU Energy Law and Policy Issues
Volume 3Book | 1st edition 2011 | Europe | Bram Delvaux, Michaël Hunt, Kim TalusThis third volume of EU Energy Law and Policy Issues presents an overview of some of the most recent developments taking place in the EU energy sector at a time when the Third Energy Package is likely to be or has been implemented in the EU Member States. In this respect, the reader will find a number of contributions which offer detailed and critical views on some of the main issues tackled by the Third Energy Package€234.00 incl. VAT -
European Company Law, 2nd edition
Organization, Finance and Capital MarketsBook | 2nd edition 2011 | Europe | Stefan GrundmannOver the last decade, European company law has been re-written completely. Virtually no EU measure remained unchanged and most of them have undergone fundamental reform. This book discusses the EC/EU law first including all instruments through which it is transposed into the national law systems. However, where no EC/EU law exists, a comparative law discussion and policy aspects, namely law and economics, fill the gaps. The whole organism of (limited liability) company law is thus covered.€222.00 incl. VATStudent price: €54.00 -
Minority Rights, Freedom of Expression and of the Media: Dynamics and Dilemmas
Book | 1st edition 2011 | United Kingdom | Tarlach McGonagleThis book offers a rigorous, theory-based, and uniquely comprehensive, analysis of European and international legal standards shaping minorities’ right to freedom of expression. The analysis pays particular attention to the instrumental role played by traditional and new forms of media in ensuring that the right to freedom of expression of persons belonging to minorities is effective in practice.€114.00 incl. VAT -
Interpretation of Fundamental Rights in a Multilevel Legal System
An analysis of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European UnionBook | 1st edition 2011 | World | Hanneke SendenFundamental rights provisions are known for their relatively vague and general formulation. As a result, judges dealing with these provisions are confronted with many and often controversial interpretative choices. These interpretative choices already present judges operating in a national context with difficulties, but that is even more so for European judges of the ECtHR and the CJEU. This volume analyses the use legal interpretation methods and principles in the fundamental rights case law of the ECtHR and the CJEU.€97.00 incl. VAT -
The United Nations, the Evolution of Global Values and International Law
Book | 1st edition 2011 | World | Otto SpijkersIn this book, Otto Spijkers describes how moral values have determined the founding of the United Nations Organization in 1945 and the evolution of its purposes, principles and policies since then.€96.00 incl. VAT -
Disability and Employment
A Contemporary Disability Human Rights Approach Applied to Danish, Swedish and EU Law and PolicyBook | 1st edition 2011 | Europe | Maria Ventegodt LiisbergBased on an analysis of the newly-adopted UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and present-day interpretations of international and European human rights instruments, this book seeks to define a contemporary disability human rights approach for the field of employment.€83.00 incl. VAT -
Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals - volume 32
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda December 2008Book | 1st edition 2011 | World | André Klip, Göran SluiterThis thirty second volume of annotated leading case law of international criminal tribunals contains decisions taken by the ICTR in December 2008. It provides the reader with the full text of the most important decisions, identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented the decisions. -
Procedural Justice?
Victim Participation in International Criminal ProceedingsBook | 1st edition 2011 | World | Brianne McGonigle LeyhIn early 2006, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights called for more detailed research into the relevant international standards and national and international practices concerning the role of victims in criminal proceedings. In response to this call and the increased attention paid to victims at international criminal institutions, this study explores the role of victims in international criminal proceedings.€83.00 incl. VAT -
Law and Economics in the RIA World
Improving the use of economic analysis in public policy and legislationBook | 1st edition 2011 | Europe | Andrea RendaThe use of economics in public policy, in the form of ex ante Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA), is strongly advocated by international organizations such as the OECD and the World Bank. In the US and the EU, hundreds of RIAs are produced every year to justify public intervention in the form of regulation. But reality shows that in many other countries the adoption and implementation of this tool has been patchy at best.€82.00 incl. VAT -
The Place of Religion in Family Law: A Comparative Search
Book | 1st edition 2011 | United Kingdom | Jane Mair, Esin ÖrücüThis collection of comparative essays brings together reflections on a range of religions, including Islam, Judaism and Roman Catholicism, and seeks to discover the place which religion has or might have within family law.€91.00 incl. VAT -
Constitutional Constraints on Ad Hoc Legislation
A Comparative Study of the United States, Germany and the NetherlandsBook | 1st edition 2011 | United Kingdom | Anna JasiakLegislatures sometimes adopt laws that create a special legal regime for a particular case rather than general rules for an indefinite number of situations or persons. These ad hoc laws are controversial. The purpose of this first in-depth comparative study in the fields of constitutional law and legislative studies is to clarify the use and existence of ad hoc laws and to place them within a constitutional framework of the rule of law. It is a comparative study of the United States, Germany and the Netherlands.€90.00 incl. VAT -
Rethinking Transitions
Equality and Social Justice in Societies Emerging from ConflictBook | 1st edition 2011 | World | Gaby Oré Aguilar, Felipe Gómez IsaThis volume contributes thoughtful and rigorous research to the fundamental question how to apply truth, justice, reparations and institutional reform to fundamental – and often ancestral – inequalities in each transitional society. -
Human rights protection in the European legal order
The interaction between the European and the national courtsBook | 1st edition 2011 | United Kingdom | Patricia Popelier, Catherine Van de Heyning, Piet Van NuffelThis book zooms in on various aspects of the interaction between courts in the complex European system of human rights protection. Where courts are faced with a human rights claim, they not only have to examine the validity of that claim, but also need to have a clear understanding of the human rights catalogue that is to be applied, i.e. human rights as guaranteed by the national constitution, human rights as protected under EU law, based or not on the Charter, and human rights as identified in the European Convention of Human Rights.€107.00 incl. VATStudent price: €48.00 -
Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals - volume 27
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia 2005Book | 1st edition 2011 | World | André Klip, Göran SluiterThis twenty-seventh volume of annotated leading case law of international criminal tribunals contains decisions taken by the ICTY in the year 2005.€225.00 incl. VAT -
The European Composite Administration
Book | 1st edition 2011 | Europe | Oswald Jansen, Bettina Schöndorf-HauboldThis volume focuses on the concept of European Composite Administration (Europäischer Verwaltungsverbund). As Eberhard Schmidt-Aßmann explains in his contribution Verbund expresses a systematic notion which creates the necessary entity through interlinking with each other the two organisational principles – the principle of cooperation and the principle of hierarchy. This concept of Verbund also implies the notions of sovereignty, respect and the ability to undertake joint administrative action in the European Union. This German concept “Europäischer Verwaltungsverbund” is translated as European Composite Administration.
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