Book | 1st edition 2008 | World | Alette Smeulers, Roelof Haveman
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.
Book | 1st edition 2023 | World | Nicolás Espejo-Yaksic, Claire Fenton-Glynn, Jens M. Scherpe
This book canvasses the laws regarding surrogacy in Latin American jurisdictions, putting the legal developments into their historical and social contexts. It also categorises the approaches taken and compares them to developments around the globe.
Book | 1st edition 2021 | United Kingdom | Koichi Miki
This is a fresh and stimulating book on new challenges for civil justice. It brings together leading experts from across the world to discuss relevant topics of civil justice from regional, cross-border, international and comparative perspectives.
Book | 1st edition 2022 | Europe | Björn Hoops, Ernst Marais
In this book, which is part of the book series of the Common Core of European Private Law, reporters consider legal institutions that allow persons who have occupied private or public land of others to acquire that land through mere long-term use.
International Human Rights Norms in Local Perspective
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Andrew Novak
Although the influence and opinions of political elites, civil society, and the general public vary widely, the death penalty is universally in decline throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. This book explores the African contribution to the global death penalty debate and lessons for the international death penalty abolition movement.
This book deals with the current trend in investor-state arbitration, with a focus on the African continent.It looks more specifically at the new African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and discusses how it can reshape the investor-state dispute system on the continent.
Book | 3rd edition 2022 | World | Cecilia Medina Quiroga, Valeska David Contreras
This third edition of the American Convention of Human Rights provides a thorough review of the protection of crucial convention rights and their application by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The book offers an engaging discussion of human rights issues, both old and new, occurring in the Americas.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Wenqing Liao
This book analyses the theory of efficient breach in English sales law, European Union contract law and Chinese contract law. It analyses the framework of the efficient breach theory and reconsiders the implications of this theory.
Book | 1st edition 2019 | United Kingdom | Miquel Martin-Casals
This volume explores how differences between tort and contract affect the foundations of liability, the nature and amount of the compensation, the extent of liability and whether defences and limitation periods corresponding to the distinct causes of action give rise to substantially different outcomes.
Book | 1st edition 2012 | Europe | Frederic Eggermont
This book answers two questions: what is the relationship between the European Council and the other EU institutions and what are the various roles of the European Council in the EU decision-making process?
The Intersections between Society, Family, Faith and Culture
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg
The Child’s Interests in Conflict addresses the conflicting demands on children from minority groups or children born to parents of different cultural or faith backgrounds.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Caroline Cauffman, Jan Smits
In numerous fields of law, ranging from family law to company law, private actors increasingly set their own rules, revert to private enforcement of those rules and choose the applicable law.
Under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Omkar Sidhu
Inherent to and at the very core of the right to a fair criminal trial under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights is the concept of equality of arms (procedural equality) between the parties, the construct given detailed and innovative treatment in this book.
Organization, substantive criminal law, criminal procedure and sanctions
Book | 1st edition 2019 | United Kingdom | Piet van Kempen, Maartje Krabbe, Sven Brinkhoff
The criminal justice system of the Netherlands offers an introduction to our fascinating legal system from a criminal law angle. It is recommended to students taking an introductory course on Dutch criminal law or on comparative criminal law and is also an excellent starting point for foreign researchers who wish to explore the Dutch criminal law system.
Book | 1st edition 2023 | World | George Katrougalos, Bertrand Mathieu
This book brings together specialists from more than 20 countries and focuses on the institutional, political, economic and social factors which determine the crisis of liberal democracies.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Esther van Schagen
Using insights from multilevel governance and pluralism, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the development of European private law in the Dutch and German legal order. It focuses on the question whether the coexistence of national and European state and non-state actors is detrimental or beneficial for the predictability, consistency, accessibility and responsiveness of European private law.
Between Uniformity and Legal Pluralism in the Inter-American Human Rights System
Book | 1st edition 2018 | United Kingdom | Pablo González-Domínguez
This book studies the doctrine of conventionality control in the Inter-American Human Rights System. It appeals to the principle of subsidiarity as a theoretical key to solve some of the inherent tensions of a doctrine that aims to increase the effectiveness of the American Convention on Human Rights and the decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in a plurality of constitutional systems and traditions in the region.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | United Kingdom | Jasper Krommendijk
The number of international human rights treaties and monitoring mechanisms has grown considerably over the past decades. States are increasingly confronted with criticism as to their domestic human rights record. What is the effect of all these treaties, monitoring and criticism? Do they lead to changes and improvements?
Book | 1st edition 2013 | Europe | Ignace Claeys, Régine Feltkamp
With the 186 articles of the Common European Sales Law the European Commission proposes an optional legal framework that covers the entire lifecycle of sales contracts and contracts for the supply of digital content, as well as related services. This book is the first to delve deeply into the content of the CESL and to analyse it.
