Book | 1st edition 2017 | World | Mohammad Hadi Zakerhossein
The International Criminal Court is neither able nor intended to investigate all situations of crisis across the world. Selectivity is unavoidable for the operation of this international organization. However, the authority of the Prosecutor of the Court to select and prioritize a situation over other situations is not unfettered.
A Comparative and Empirical Study on the Use of the European Uniform Procedures
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Elena Alina Ontanu
This book evaluates the application of the first autonomous European civil procedures: the European Order for Payment and the European Small Claims Procedure.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Martha Roggenkamp, Catherine Banet
This volume includes chapters on “EU Energy and Climate Law – Policy and Jurisprudence”, “Energy and Climate Treaty Developments”, “Energy Infrastructure Developments: Offshore Electricity Systems and Network Investments”, “Heat Supply Legislation in the EU” and “Security of Energy Supply and Safety”.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Anne L.M. Keirse, Marco Loos, Marco B.M. Loos
This book revolves around major legal developments in the fields of European contract law and tort law from 1981 to today and examines whether similarities or divergences can be observed.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | World | André Klip, Steven Freeland
This fiftieth volume of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains decisions taken by the International Criminal Court from 2009-2010.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | Europe | Gemma Fajardo-García, Antonio Fici, Hagen Henrÿ, David Hiez, Deolinda A. Meira, Hans-H. Muenker, Ian Snaith
The Principles of European Cooperative Law (PECOL) focus on the ‘ideal’ legal identity of cooperatives. Drafted by a team of legal scholars, the PECOL aim to describe the common core of European cooperative law.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Ignace Claeys, Evelyne Terryn
This book three legal instruments proposed by the European Commission in the context of its Digital Single Market Strategy, which has recently become one of its priorities. The proposed instruments are: (1) a directive for the supply of digital content; (2) a directive for the online and other distance sales of goods; and (3) a regulation on cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Malin Thunberg Schunke
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of extended confiscation in criminal law. With its main focus on the framework of the European Union, national and international regimes on confiscation are viewed from a multi-faceted perspective.
The UK after Brexit is the result of a cooperation between a group of leading academics from top institutions in the UK and beyond. It offers students, practitioners and scholars an authoritative, informative and thought-provoking series of analyses of some of the key challenges facing the UK legal system in and through the process of ‘de-Europeanisation’ – that is, in and through ‘Brexit’.
The United Nations Commission of Experts Established Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 780 (1992)
Book | 1st edition 2017 | World | M. Cherif Bassiouni
Following World War Two, the progress towards international accountability and international criminal justice came to a halt as a result of the Cold War. But only three years since the end of the Cold War the international community was forced to face the ethnic tensions and civil war tearing apart the republics that once comprised the former Yugoslavia. The investigation into the conflict is detailed in this book including the uncovering of 187 mass graves, the interviewing of 223 victims of rape and sexual assault, and the utilization of prison camps and mass expulsion for the purpose of ethnic cleansing.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Sandrine Maljean-Dubois
The central topic of this book is the effectiveness of environmental law. It offers a fruitful and stimulating dialogue between practitioners and academics, from varied countries and varied fields, combining empirical and theoretical approaches to the topic.
Fundamentals of Civil Procedure and the Changing Face of Civil Justice
Book | 1st edition 2017 | Europe | Alan Uzelac, C.H. van Rhee
Based on the wish to reopen an international comparative discussion on fundamental notions of civil procedure, this book offers a number of insights into procedural human rights from different jurisdictions and different points of view.
Direct Horizontal Effect of the Treaty Provisions on Free Movement
Book | 1st edition 2017 | Roel van Leuken
This book discusses the possible reach of the influence of the TFEU provisions on free movement of goods, persons, services and capital on legal relationships between individuals (‘horizontal’ legal relationships). It then formulates a private law reaction to this so-called direct horizontal effect of the fundamental freedoms.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | World | Dan Svantesson, Dariusz Kloza
'I think you are misunderstanding the perceived problem here, Mr President. No one is saying that you broke any laws. We are just saying it is a little bit weird that you did not have to.’ - John Oliver
A Case Study on Natural Resource Exploitation Disputes
Book | 1st edition 2017 | World | Claire Buggenhoudt
Common Interests in International Litigation provides answers to questions that international litigation faces as the result of an increasing recognition of common interests in this area, with an ever-expanding network of specialised judicial bodies.
Using Financial Analysis to Measure a Company's Value
Book | 3rd edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Guy Parmentier, Bart Cuypers
What determines a company’s financial health and what drives company value? This third-edition book enables non-specialists to grasp all relevant financial information using tools that allow efficient financial analyses and allows specialists to gain new perspectives on the matter.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Gerard McCormack, Reinhard Bork
A comparative analysis of security rights in insolvency proceedings under the main legal traditions of the European Union (common law, Germanic, ‘Napoleonic Code’ and ‘East’ European) in the context of Articles 5 and 13 of the European Insolvency Regulation – Regulation 1346/2000.
A collection of essays by distinguished legal scholars that explores from legal, historical and theoretical perspectives how the Charter of the Fundamental Rights of the European Union has affected, and is likely to impact on the development of, contract law and commercial law within the European Union.
Book | 3rd edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Katharina Boele-Woelki, Angelika Fuchs
The legal situation concerning same-sex couples is far from homogeneous in Europe. This book gives an overview of the formalisation and consequences of same-sex marriage and partnership all over Europe, discusses children’s rights in same-sex relationships and addresses the topic of gender identity.
