Book | 2nd edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Jennifer Corrin, David Newton Bamford
This book outlines the conduct of civil litigation in the South Pacific. It focuses on the superior courts of Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. It discusses relevant case law and legislation and suggests possible reforms.
Individual outcomes and contemporary policy challenges in European societies
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Ioana Salagean, Catalina Lomos, Anne Hartung
The current retrenchment of the welfare states is buffering the growing demographic and economic pressures in European countries at the expense of the young and the elderly. This book encompasses a selection of empirical studies reflecting on when and why the young and the elderly are at risk in several (mostly Western) European countries.
The need to allow a change of legal sex/gender in certain cases is no longer disputed in most jurisdictions. The question has therefore shifted to what the requirements for such a change of the legal sex/gender should be. This book examines these thus far under-researched questions, namely what the full legal consequences of a change of legal sex/gender should be, for example with regard to existing legal relationships such as marriages and registered partnerships, but also concerning children and parentage.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Hannah Müller
This book examines the legal frameworks applying to offshore grid development under international law, European Union law and national law. It reveals that these legal frameworks have not been developed to facilitate such complex (cross-border) infrastructure.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | Europe | Christina Peristeridou
This book develops a theory for the principle of legality in European criminal law. Its focus is on the legitimising and normative functions of this principle.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Mehdi Piri Damagh
This book contains the latest update of international and regional instruments with respect to prevention and compensation of transboundary damage caused by pipelines.
The second edition of this volume contains an overview and discussion of the historical and normative processes (legal and political) that culminated in the adoption of the Kampala Resolution on the Crime of Aggression (2010).
Book | 1st edition 2015 | Europe | Ton van den Brink, Michiel Luchtman, Miroslava Scholten
How does EU membership affect national sovereignty? This edited volume offers a broader perspective on sovereignty relying on the international law concept.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Ilse Samoy, Marco Loos
Technological and economical developments require contracting parties to be informed and advised. This book analyses several aspects of these information and notification duties.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Andrea Broderick
This book examines several aspects of the equality and non-discrimination norms in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
Book | 1st edition 2015 | Europe | Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, Ioannis Papageorgiou
Regional integration systems are becoming increasingly important. This book analyses how regional integration systems all over the world might be able to act as defenders or promoters of democracy, rule of law and the respect for human rights among their members.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Tobias Heldt
The book presents a proposal for a harmonised European liability regime and discusses possibilities to enhance the feasibility of such a reform. It calls for a stronger involvement of the public in the nuclear sector and emphasises the intrinsic link between effective safety regulation and liability and compensation mechanisms.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | World | Karel De Meester
The investigation phase in international criminal procedure has so far received less attention than the trial phase itself. This book seeks to cover this gap.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Elena Ignovska
Although recent family law debates have been predominantly paedo-centric, the founding of “bio-medically assisted families” still focuses on the individual parents’ rights to reproduce. By introducing donations, the donor’s genetic contribution becomes instrumental and the legal attribution of parenthood negotiated through expressed intentions. This book provokes the curious mind and clarifies concepts, studies the rationale behind the legal complexity in ten national European jurisdictions, and confronts the rights and responsibilities of the stakeholders, providing a balanced independent conclusion and suggestions towards international harmonisation.
Legal Aspects of (Residential) Co-Parenting in England, the Netherlands and Belgium
Book | 1st edition 2015 | Natalie Nikolina
There has been much discussion worldwide on parenting after parental separation, especially on the desirability for the children involved of co-parenting and residential co-parenting.
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia 7 July 2007 - 26 July 2010
Book | 1st edition 2015 | World | André Klip, Steven Freeland
This forty-third volume of annotated leading case law of international criminal tribunals contains decisions taken by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia between 2007 and 2010
Book | 1st edition 2015 | Europe | Carlos Gómez-Jara Díez
For decades, the EU has developed a system of criminal justice consistent with the mixed (sometimes contradictory) tendencies embedded in its very own structure. The Lisbon Treaty consolidated some federal elements that have an impact in the future development of this area of law.
