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Contributors: Fabián O. Raimondo, Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány, Erik Kok, Wouter Werner, Celso Eduardo F. Coracini, Michael Moesenthin, Christopher M. Rassi, Dawn L. Rothe, Dimcho Dimov, Paul de Hert, Gentian Zyberi and Göran Sluiter

This volume in the EFL-Series aims at enabling a larger and more contextualised view on succession law, by studying the issue of imperative inheritance law from five different perspectives: legal anthropology, legal history, sociology of law, law and economics, and comparative law. All perspectives are introduced by eminent scholars.

Contributors: Peter Bal, Pedro Caeiro, James Cockayne, Celso Eduardo Faria Coracini, Rob Cryer, André de Hoogh, Masha Fedorova, Leena Grover, André Klip, Claus Kreß, Miguel Ângelo Lemos, Anne-Sophie Massa, Avril McDonald, Gregory S. McNeal, Fabián O. Raimondo, Göran Sluiter, Sergey Vasiliev and Gentian Zyberi.

This volume contains the most important decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for the period 14 October 2003 - 5 December 2003. All decisions are commented on by distinguished international scholars and academics.Contributors:Denis Abels, Rogier Bartels, Megan Fairlie, Steven Freeland, Maria Kalafa-Gbandi, Maartje Krabbe, Mark McKarel, Yannis Naziris, Daniel Ntanda-Nsereko, Olaoluwa Olusanya and Natalie Wagner

Contributors: Isidoro Blanco Cordero, Wendy de Bondt, Anne-Marie de Brouwer, Els de Busser, Michele Caianiello, Menno Dolman, Micaela Frulli, Eric Iverson, Dov Jacobs, Gerhard Kemp, Marloes Kleijn Hesselink, Goreth Kyakuwa, Ousman Njikam, Jens David Ohlin, Helmut Satzger, Joanna Spanoudis, Ignaz Stegmiller, Heikelina Verrijn Stuart and Edith Weemaels

This edited volume ascertains the added value of international criminal tribunals in fighting impunity for crimes against international law and fostering political reconciliation in affected States. It aims to identify best practices which may inform the choice between the establishment of international criminal tribunals and recourse to other mechanisms, and which may render existing or future tribunals more effective institutions.

In this work the author tries to uncover the parameters the labour legislators used in the development of labour protection. He formulates a number of theses that allow him to establish a theory of labour law. The themes dealt with in this work fit in an overall vision on labour in its relation with capital as dealt with in law.

This book sheds an innovating light on the relations between EU and non-EU countries and nationals, as far as social security is concerned. These are dealt with in a number of contributions by eminent international experts.

This book explores the intricate, complex, and sometimes contentious relationship between the European Union’s agenda for a free internal market and the protection of labour standards within the European Union. Its immediate focus is on recent legal developments, both in case law and in legislation.

This book deals with the rights of persons, both children and adults, who feel a strong wish to find out who their biological parents are. The identification of biological parents may become important in a wide variety of situations, which run the gamut from adoption to sperm donor anonymity and ‘misattributed paternity’. A thorough comparative study of the relevant law across a number of jurisdictions found on the European continent has now for the first time been made available in English.

This eighth edition of the Collection of Conventions of the Hague Conference contains the most important multilateral treaties entered into under the auspices of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, which has been working on the progressive unification of private international law since 1893, and doing so as an intergovernmental organisation since 1955. This new edition, made necessary by a revision of the Hague Conference Statute and the adoption since 2003 of three new Conventions, reproduces the texts of the Hague Conventions in authentic versions as deposited with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

This volume contains detailed information concerning the law on property relations between spouses (matrimonial property law) in twenty-six European jurisdictions.

Contributors: Michael Bohlander, Astrid Reisinger Coracini, Masha Fedorova, Caroline Fournet, Steven Freeland, Dov Jacobs, Florian Jessberger, Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi, Katalin Ligeti, Suzannah Linton, Susana Assis Martins, Anne Pieter van der Mei, Yannis Naziris, Ousman Njikam, Oliver Schüttpelz, Desislava Stoitchkova and Shamiso Zinzombe.

This volume contains articles on three issues that at the dawn of the 21st century have provoked passionate discussion: (compulsory) arrangements regarding children; registration schemes for same-sex couples: new jurisdictions ; and the effectiveness of the pater est rule.

This fourteenth volume of annotated leading case law of international criminal tribunals contains decisions taken by the ICTY from 1 April 2003 until 13 October 2003. 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. An index is included.

Contributors:Kai Ambos, Pedro Caeiro, Steven Freeland, Goreth Kyakuwa, André Klip, Brianne McGonigle, Ousman Njikam, Maria Fernanda Palma Pereira, Göran Sluiter, Alexander Zahar, and Salvatore Zappalà

This seventeenth volume of Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains decisions taken by the ICTR in the years 2003-2004. 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. An index is included.Contributors: Caroline Fournet, Daniel Ntanda-Nsereko, William Shabas and Shamiso Zinzombe.

The study of international crimes, like war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, deserves to grow into a separate and fully fledged specialization within criminology: supranational criminology. This book aims to repair the fundamental and historical neglect of criminology and to break out of a state of denial by putting international crimes on the criminological agenda.

This book analyzes whether, and to what extent, the exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction in cartel and merger matters is in fact lawful under international law. It does so from a transatlantic perspective, with an emphasis on practice in the United States and the European Community. The book mainly focuses on the use of the controversial effects and implementation doctrines of jurisdiction.

This book contains the contributions to the third CEFL conference which took place in Oslo in June 2007. The general topic European Challenges in Contemporary Family Law has been divided into five themes:• The Harmonisation of Family Law• Children and Their Parents• Irregular Marriages and the Influence of Multiculturalism• (Property) Relations between Spouses and Cohabitants• Cross-Border Family Relationships.