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  1. Property Law Reform, Sustainability and the Commons

    Property Law Reform, Sustainability and the Commons

    Book | 1st edition 2024 | Europe, United Kingdom | Vincent Sagaert, Dorothy Gruyaert, Marie-Laure Degroote, Kato De Schepper, Vincent Janssen, Flore Vavourakis

    This book is the outcome of the international conference ‘Property law reform, sustainability and the commons’, which was hosted by the Institute for Property Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of KU Leuven in March 2023. The occasion of this conference was the holistic and innovative Belgian property law reform, which is part of the larger establishment of a brand new Belgian Civil Code. The goal of the conference, and hence of the book, was to engage with (both junior and more senior) property law experts from different legal systems to critically assess this Belgian property law reform from an international perspective by comparing it to other, recent and not so recent, property law reforms.

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  2. European Contract Law in a Changed Banking and Financial Architecture

    European Contract Law in a Changed Banking and Financial Architecture

    Stability Design, the Common Good, and Private Party Participation
    Book | 1st edition 2024 | Europe, United Kingdom | Stefan Grundmann, Pietro Sirena

    The EU Banking Union as outstanding regulatory regime in the 2010s influences private parties’ contract law –with claims against authorities, on markets with two new mega-trends. Firstly, the common good imposes itself much more against private gains. Secondly, private parties are more involved in responsibilities for the system and with claims based on it.

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  3. The Marburg Group’s Comments on the European Commission's Parenthood Proposal

    The Marburg Group’s Comments on the European Commission's Parenthood Proposal

    Book | 1st edition 2024 | Europe, United Kingdom | Christine Budzikiewicz, Konrad Duden, Anatol Dutta, Tobias Helms, Claudia Mayer

    On 7 December 2022, the European Commission published a Proposal for a private international law Regulation on parenthood. In the book, the Marburg Group—a group of German private international law scholars—undertakes the first extensive and in-depth assessment of the Parenthood Proposal. While the Group welcomes the initiative of the Commission and embraces the overall structure of the Parenthood Proposal, it suggests several fundamental changes.

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  4. Cross-Border Child Relocation in the EU

    Cross-Border Child Relocation in the EU

    The Dynamics of Europeanisation
    Book | 1st edition 2024 | World | Olga Ceran

    Child relocation presents a challenge to family lawyers, with its cross-border dimension raising unique questions in the legal context of the European Union. This book examines the European legal frameworks of child relocation and discusses the dynamics of Europeanisation of national child relocation law.

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  5. The Right to Identity and Access to Information on Genetic Origin and Parentage

    The Right to Identity and Access to Information on Genetic Origin and Parentage

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    Book | 1st edition 2024 | World | Ingrid Boone, Machteld Vonk

    The Right to Identity and Access to Information on Genetic Origin and Parentage discusses recent developments on the right to know one’s genetic origins in the context of donor conception. It includes both legal analyses and findings from psychological research, delving not only into the theoretical framework, but, additionally, assessing the practices of counselling and DNA databases.

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  6. Brussels II-ter

    Brussels II-ter

    Cross-border Marriage Dissolution, Parental Responsibility Disputes and Child Abduction in the EU
    Book | 1st edition 2024 | Europe | Nigel Lowe, Costanza Honorati, Michael Hellner

    The book provides an in-depth discussion of Council Regulation No 2019/1111 (‘Brussels II-ter’) (in force from August 2022), which lays down rules on jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement which EU Member States must apply when dealing with matrimonial matters, matters of parental responsibility and child abduction. 

     

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  7. The Principles of European Family Law Revisited

    The Principles of European Family Law Revisited

    Book | 1st edition 2024 | Europe | Katharina Boele-Woelki, Frédérique Ferrand, Cristina González Beilfuss, Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg, Nigel Lowe, Dieter Martiny, Velina Todorova

    Based on national reports by family law experts from over 20 European jurisdictions, The Principles of European Family Law Revisited is ideal for comparative family lawyers, giving insight into recent developments in family law in Europe in the areas of divorce, maintenance between former spouses, parental responsibilities, property relations between spouses and de facto unions.

     

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  8. Changing Families, Changing Family Law in Europe

    Changing Families, Changing Family Law in Europe

    Book | 1st edition 2024 | World | Konrad Duden, Denise Wiedemann

    What constitutes a “family” in Europe? The answer to this question is constantly changing and increasingly varied. This book addresses areas of family law where developments have been particularly salient and have, at times, created fissures between European States. It also suggests ways of addressing and overcoming these divergences.

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  9. Mass Harm in Europe

    Mass Harm in Europe

    Compensation and Civil Procedures
    Book | 1st edition 2023 | Europe | Tomas Arons, Rianka Rijnhout
    This book comprises an in-depth comparative law study on the meaning of tort law and procedural law in mass harm cases in Europe, examining this phenomenon in the context of 12 different case studies in 12 European jurisdictions and including four general contributions on mass harm cases.
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  10. European Sales Law

    European Sales Law

    Challenges in the 21st Century
    Book | 1st edition 2023 | Stefan Grundmann, Yesim M. Atamer
    20 years after the 1999 EU sales law harmonization an extensive and future oriented reform has occurred with the 2019 Sale of Goods Directive. The reform infused features of durability, sustainability and digitalisation into classical sales law, transforming the contract into a long-term relationship, also forcing an adaptation of distribution networks.
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  11. Legal Capacity, Disability and Human Rights

    Legal Capacity, Disability and Human Rights

    Book | 1st edition 2023 | World | Michael Bach, Nicolás Espejo-Yaksic

    This book comprises chapters by key legal scholars and practitioners from the Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania and Africa. It examines the evolution, theoretical constructs and institutional features of legal capacity, as well as the specific ways in which evolving principles, rights and standards derived from disability law and human rights are impacting and transforming the law.

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  12. Luxembourg Law of Security Interests over Movable Assets

    Luxembourg Law of Security Interests over Movable Assets

    Book | 1st edition 2023 | Luxembourg | Hannes Westendorf

    The book is divided into 2 parts. The first part treats the civil and commercial law pledges, as well as the pledge as financial collateral arrangement and the pledge over a business. The second part examines payment guarantees conferring an exclusive right upon the creditor, which include the right of retention and title-based security such as retention of title techniques as well as title transfer for security purposes.

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  13. The European Convention on Human Rights and its Impact on National Private Law

    The European Convention on Human Rights and its Impact on National Private Law

    A Comparative Perspective
    Book | 1st edition 2023 | Europe | Matteo Fornasier, Maria Gabriella Stanzione
    The book explores, from a comparative perspective, the impact of the European Convention of Human Rights on a wide range of private law issues, including family law, data protection law, media law, copyright law, labour law as well as private international law and procedural law.
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  14. Surrogacy in Latin America

    Surrogacy in Latin America

    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.
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  15. Retention of title in secured transactions law from a creditor's perspective

    Retention of title in secured transactions law from a creditor's perspective

    A comparative analysis of selected (non-)functional approaches
    Book | 1st edition 2023 | Europe | Inge Van de Plas
    This doctoral research compares the retention of title in Belgium with the retention of title in the United States, Germany and two international instruments (the UNCITRAL legislative guide and model law on secured transactions and Book IX of the Draft Common Frame of Reference. It evaluates the application of the functional approach to retention of title and formulates recommendations concerning the regulation of retention of title in Belgian law.
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  16. Plurality and Diversity in Law: Family Forms and Family's Functions

    Plurality and Diversity in Law: Family Forms and Family's Functions

    Book | 1st edition 2023 | United Kingdom | Jacqueline Heaton, Aida Kemelmajer
    This book presents comparative perspectives based on findings presented in National Reports on the theme 'Plurality and Diversity in Law: Family Forms and Family's Functions'. The contributions focus on whether, and if so, how, family law recognises that a child can have multiple parents, and which family functions are recognised and favoured by the law.
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  17. Between Sexuality, Gender and Reproduction

    Between Sexuality, Gender and Reproduction

    On the Pluralisation of Family Forms
    Book | 1st edition 2023 | World | Nina Dethloff, Katharina Kaesling
    This book addresses the pluralisation of family forms as an expression of the transformation of society and its normative foundations. Against a legal background, the development of diverse family concepts and practices is examined and the (severed) links between sexuality, gender and reproduction are explored.
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  18. A Comparative Law Analysis of No-Fault Comprehensive Compensation Funds

    A Comparative Law Analysis of No-Fault Comprehensive Compensation Funds

    International Best Practice and Contemporary Applications
    Book | 1st edition 2023 | World | Kim Watts
    This book is a groundbreaking comparative law analysis of the world's largest and most mature compensation funds, impacting nearly 22 million people in the four jurisdictions of Victoria (Australia), Quebec and Manitoba (Canada), and New Zealand. These funds operate in a way that turns tort law on its head, are financially stable and sustainable, and represent a true revolution in private law. The book takes important steps to further scientific knowledge of large alternative liability systems and goes beyond existing literature in the field.
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  19. Artificial Intelligence and the Law (2nd edition)

    Artificial Intelligence and the Law (2nd edition)

    Second revised edition
    Book | 2nd edition 2023 | Belgium | Jan De Bruyne, Cedric Vanleenhove

    In this comprehensive book, scholars critically examine how AI systems may impact Belgian law. While specific topics of Belgian private and public law are thoroughly addressed, the book also provides a general overview of a number of regulatory and ethical AI evolutions and tendencies in the European Union. In this second edition various chapters have been updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Two chapters covering media law and competition law have also been added. 

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