Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Margaret Brinig
The International Survey of Family Law is the annual review of the International Society of Family Law. It brings together reliable and clearly structured insights into the latest and most notable developments in family law from all around the globe.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | World | Jeremy Sarkin, Ellah Siang'andu
This book explores a range of issues related to the development, application and enforcement of international criminal justice within Africa and on Africa. Written by experts from Africa, and adopting African perspectives, it seeks to understand the scope and reach of these issues, nationally, regionally and globally.
Remembrance and Restoration in the Aftermath of Political Violence
Book | 1st edition 2020 | World | Camila de Gamboa Tapias, Bert van Roermund
How do memory and remembrance relate to transitional justice that lays emphasis on restoration? What is captured and what is obliterated in individual and collective efforts to come to terms with a violent past? Across this volume consisting of twelve in-depth contributions, the politics of memory in various countries are related to restorative justice under four headings: restoring trust, restoring truth, restoring land and restoring law.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | André Klip, Steven Freeland
The sixty-first volume of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains the most important decisions taken by the ICC in the years 2012 - 2014. It provides the reader with the full text of the decisions identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented on these decisions.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | Europe | Beate Gsell, Thomas Möllers
This book critically analyses the various approaches of public and private law enforcement and their effectiveness across several jurisdictions on the example of one topical and global collective damage event with far reaching consequences for both, consumers and investors: the Dieselgate.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | C.J.W. Baaij, David Cabrelli, Laura Macgregor
This book is a unique and extensive comparative study of commercial contract interpretation across 14 selected jurisdictions, namely Croatia, England and Wales, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, South Africa, Spain and Sweden. Using a dynamic comparative case method, the focus is centered on the discussion of key legal problems, further examined in a detailed and comprehensive comparative analysis. Contributions written from a law and economics, and European private law perspectives place the key legal issues into context and make Interpretation of Commercial Contracts in European Private Law a coherent and valuable resource for academics and practitioners with a European or International focus.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Israel Gilead, Bjarte Askeland
Prescription is a major legal defence that bars civil actions after the expiry of the prescription period on the claim. This book thoroughly examines the law of 16 selected jurisdictions and extensively analyses in comparative perspective the elements of prescription, their interrelations, and the policy considerations (including economic analysis). While the book focuses on prescription of tort claims the analysis, comparisons and conclusions are most pertinent to most civil actions.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | André Klip, Steven Freeland
The sixty-second volume of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains the most important decisions taken by the ICC from 1 March 2014 to 22 May 2014. It provides the reader with the full text of the decisions identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented on these decisions.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Michael Legg, Prue Vines, Janet Chan
This book concerns the impact of recent changes in technology (including the internet and artificial intelligence), as well as innovations (such as the changing ways of billing, new law firm structures and requirements and new employment practices) on the wellbeing of lawyers. There is evidence that the wellbeing of lawyers can be enhanced or diminished by these new practices and developments.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | World | Laura Inigo Alvarez
Armed groups have played a predominant role in violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law committed in conflict settings. The aim of this book is to examine how the principles of international responsibility could be developed and adjusted to account for armed groups as collective entities.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Elisabeth Alofs, Wendy Schrama
This book examines the legal and societal challenges facing ageing nations in Europe. With a focus on informal care, it poses the question of how, in light of historical and socio-demographic changes, we can take care of our elderly.
Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung des deutschen und englischen Rechts
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Saskia Constanze Zellerhoff
Ergründet die Verfasserin die aktuellen rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen für eine schiedsgerichtliche Beilegung familienrechtlicher Streitigkeiten im deutschen und englischen Recht und deren Bedeutung in der Praxis.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Georgios Terzis, Dariusz Kloza, Elzbieta Kuzelewska, Daniel Trottier
Through a collection of expert analyses, this book aims to deepen our understanding of the dangers of fake news and disinformation, while also charting well-informed and realistic ways ahead.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | Europe | Vesna Rijavec, Katja Drnovsek, C.H. van Rhee
The volume addresses the enforcement of judgments and other authentic instruments in a European cross-border context, as well as enforcement in a selection of national European jurisdictions.
Macroprudential policy focuses on the financial system as a whole, as distinct from individual institutions, and its objective is to limit the costs to the real economy from system-wide distress of the financial sector. This book helps readers discover and decipher the multi-faceted and fascinating area of macroprudential policy through taking a theoretical, interdisciplinary and legal-focused approach.
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia 2011-2013
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | André Klip, Steven Freeland
This sixtieth volume of the Annotated Leading cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains decisions taken by the ECCC in the years 2011-2013. 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.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Samuel Zogg
This book analyses proprietary restitution, at law and in equity, and inquires whether proprietary relief is available in defective transfers of property. It particularly covers the law of rescission, resulting and constructive trusts, tracing and unjust enrichment.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Thierry Vansweevelt, Britt Weyts
Compensation funds are redress structures that compensate victims of accidents and other misfortune where tort, insurance and social security frameworks are unavailable or inapplicable. Their undefined nature raises important legal questions that have not yet been fully answered. This book contrasts and analyses both well-known and lesser known compensation funds in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
This book shall be an introduction into the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) as an international organization and, inter alia, as a platform for its member states' relations with the EU and for jointly negotiated Free Trade Agreements. EFTA - originally set up by the UK - is an example of how countries that do not want to be members of the EU can still have close links with it. This may serve as food for thought in the current Brexit debate.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | Europe | Fernando Gascon Inchausti, Esther Sánchez Coro
This book provides precious insight into the dynamics of this new approach to consolidating European Civil Justice, clearly outlining the motivations of the various national and institutional players involved and examining potential obstacles likely to be encountered along the way. The book represents a work of reference for anyone involved in academia, practice or law reform in this subject area.
