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The book opens with an introduction to the conventions and then presents contributions of experts working for various organisations which are of extreme importance for the implementation and understanding of standards: the Committee of Experts of the ILO, the Council of Europe, a national government, university professors, a judge, a government advisor from an East European country, and a trade union. The book concludes with a chapter in which the contributions are put into perspective. As a result, the legal meaning and interpretation of the standards is approached from various angles in a unique way.

This eleventh volume of annotated leading case law of international criminal tribunals contains decisions taken by the ICTY in the years 2002 and 2003.

The main objective of this volume is to instigate an in-depth discussion regarding various facets of the convergence/divergence discord in the field of family law.

This twelfth volume of Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains decisions taken by the ICTR in the year 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.

This edited volume seeks to test the Principles of European Family Law Regarding Divorce and Maintenance Between Former Spouses in a range of legal systems, Malta, Estonia, Lithuania and Turkey; and in so doing to assess these legal systems in view of the Principles, and the Principles in view of these legal systems.

In these Principles, the CEFL has developed a comprehensive and original set of rules in the field of parental responsibilities based on respect for the rights of the child, non-discrimination and, as far as possible, self-determination. In their provisions on specific issues the Principles opt for solutions which seem to be workable and shall avoid unnecessary hardship and disputes.

What is the meaning of the “right to social security” for the world of today, at times of neo-liberalism and globalization? Which entitlements can individual citizens derive from this right? What is meant by “social security”? Is it only about minimum benefits, or also about income maintenance? Does it include assistance? Health care? Housing? Social services? hose are the crucial questions that are discussed in this book which brings together the views and opinions of numerous specialists in social protection of all disciplines and from all parts of the world.

Contributors: James Cockyane, Shahram Dana, Chris de Roy, Håkan Friman, Emanuela Fronza, Paola Gaeta, Roelof Haveman, Gerhard Kemp, Jann Kleffner, André Klip, Joachim Renzikowski, Roy Schondorf, Göran Sluiter, Taru Spronken, Jarinde Temmick Tuinstra, Larissa van den Herik, and Gentian Zyberi.

This book provides an overview of the developments in family law in Europe during the last two millennia. It aims to examine the so-called 'cultural constraints argument', which suggests that family law is unsuitable for harmonisation because the family laws of the European countries are deeply imbedded in their unique national cultures and history.

This is the nineth annotated selection of decisions, orders and judgements of the International Criminal Tribunal for Sierra Leone 2003-2004.

This book serves as a reference tool for all those who require information regarding the substantive law rules concerning new forms of non-marital registered relationships in the countries researched, as well as for those interested in the private international law aspects of these relationships.

This book contains the most important decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda that were published in the series Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals.

Introduced into European Community law by the Court of Justice through its case law in the field of free movement of workers, the legal concept of indirect discrimination has evolved into one with far wider and greater relevance to many other areas of EC law as well. This book analyses the concept of indirect discrimination in a broad and comparative context, which encompasses both economic and social law.

This volume contains twenty-three contributions related to: (1) divorce and maintenance between former spouses, (2) parental responsibilities, (3) informal long-term relationships and (4) the revised Brussels II Regulation.

This volume contains twenty-three contributions related to: (1) divorce and maintenance between former spouses, (2) parental responsibilities, (3) informal long-term relationships and (4) the revised Brussels II Regulation.

This is the eighth annotated selection of decisions, orders and judgements of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia 2001-2002.

This is the seventh annotated selection of decisions, orders and judgements of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia 2001.

This is the sixth annotated selection of decisions, orders and judgements of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Rwanda 2000-2001.

This work, thanks to the translation of the rules of Private International Law in the field of family law, provides lawyers, civil servants and consular officers with insight into the applicable rules in international cases. It is hoped that this work will also further contribute to the development of an international legal discourse on the development of family law in other jurisdictions.