This book is devoted to the applicable law to contractual and non-contractual obligations in the European Union as applied before the Courts. It is a valuable resource for practitioners, the judiciary, and academics who are interested in understanding how EU law is applied on national level.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | World | Eva Brems, Pieter Cannoot, Toon Moonen
This book brings together international experts to discuss questions and challenges relating to the legal articulation of the emerging right to gender self-determination and its consequences for law and society, such as the future of sex/gender registration and the protection of trans persons against discrimination.
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 | 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 | 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 | 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.
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.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia 2011-2012
Book | 1st edition 2019 | André Klip, Steven Freeland
This fifty-fifth volume of annotated leading case law of international criminal tribunals contains the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (2011-2012).
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia 2013-2014
Book | 1st edition 2019 | World | André Klip, Steven Freeland
This fifty-sixth volume of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains decisions taken by the ICTY in the years 2013-2014. 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.
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia 2009-2011
Book | 1st edition 2019 | André Klip, Steven Freeland
This fifty-fourth volume of annotated leading case law of international criminal tribunals contains the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (2009-2011).
This book examines the case law of the European Court of Justice concerning the requirement to interpret national law in conformity with EU law directives. It offers an in-depth analysis of the application of this obligation in three Member States: Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands. The key question underlying this examination is to what extent the established theories of supremacy of EU law, national constitutionalism and constitutional pluralism adequately explain the relationship between EU and national law under the duty of consistent interpretation.
This book brings together the subject areas of history and negotiation studies. It focuses on their overlap and analyses past and present negotiations, applying the latest concepts of negotiation studies: a summary of each negotiation focusing on the chain of events is followed by a critical analysis cross-referencing the facts to modern negotiation theory concepts.
Book | 1st edition 2019 | World | Jan von Hein, Eva-Maria Kieninger, Giesela Rühl
Over the course of the last few decades, the European legislature has adopted a total of 18 Regulations in the area of private international law. The question remains, however, if these efforts have turned private international law into a truly European field? The book analyses - for the first time - how 'European' European private international law actually is.
The Development of Police and Judicial Cooperation in the European Union
Book | 1st edition 2019 | Europe | Cyrille Fijnaut
This book outlines in an accessible manner the wide-ranging and revolutionary development of one of the most crucial and dynamic EU policy areas since the Maastricht Treaty: that of police and judicial cooperation between its Member States. It examines the subject in light of burning issues surrounding migration, terrorism and, of course, Brexit.
Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation and Trade for Recreational Use: Positive Human Rights Obligations versus UN Narcotic Drugs Conventions
Book | 1st edition 2019 | Europe | Piet van Kempen, Masha Fedorova
This study takes an innovative approach to this issue and approaches the possibility for regulation of cannabis for recreational use from the perspective of positive human rights obligations.
Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation for Recreational Use under the UN Narcotic Drugs Conventions and the EU Legal Instruments in Anti-Drugs Policy
Book | 1st edition 2019 | World | Piet van Kempen, Masha Fedorova
This study addresses the legal question of to which extent domestic initiatives involving the regulation of cannabis cultivation for recreational use are compatible with the relevant UN narcotic drugs conventions and European Union law.
Book | 1st edition 2019 | Belgium | Piet van Kempen, Masha Fedorova
Volume I addresses the legal question of to which extent domestic initiatives involving the regulation of cannabis cultivation for recreational use are compatible with the relevant UN narcotic drugs conventions and European Union law. Volume II takes an innovative approach to this issue and approaches the possibility for regulation of cannabis for recreational use from the perspective of positive human rights obligations.
This book traces the uncharted history of validity and invalidity, two central categories of legal thought ubiquitous in contemporary private and public law. It shows how they emerged in response to social needs that remain pressing today.
