Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Alberto De Franceschi
In light of the EU's commitment to making the Single Market fit for the digital age, leading scholars analyse new and urgent issues in the field of contract, data protection, copyright and private international law.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Herwig Verschueren
This book discusses the issue of these links and, more specifically, the question of how EU law defines the link needed to obtain the right to reside in a Member State and the right to social and employment protection in that State.
Application of European standards for local public services in France and Croatia
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Stéphane de La Rosa, Didier Lhomme, Anamarija Musa
The papers contained in this book explore the content and the effects of the European legal provisions and standards on the local governance and public services in France and Croatia.
An Analysis of the State of the Art in the Era of New Technologies
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Piotr Machnikowski
European Product Liability is the result of an extensive international research project funded by the Polish National Science Centre. It brings together experienced scholars associated with the European Group on Tort Law (EGTL) and the European Research Group on Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group).
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Anna Nylund, H.B. Krans
This book discusses the impact of EU law on selected national legal systems. The authors analyse how the civil procedure system of their country has reacted to increasing Europeanisation and influence of EU law.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Stephen Weatherill
This book examines the European Union’s impact on private and especially contract law. It shows how the European Union’s founding Treaties grant it in principle only a limited competence in the field, but how in practice the European Union’s influence is broad and to some extent unpredictable.
Shifting the Convention System: Counter-dynamics at the National and EU Level
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Patricia Popelier, Sarah Lambrecht, Koen Lemmens
The goal of the volume is to explore how widespread criticism of the European Court of Human Rights is. It also assesses to what extent such criticism is being translated in strategies at the political level or at the judicial level and brings about concrete changes in the dynamics between national and European fundamental rights protection.
Effect of EU Law and European Human Rights Law on Legal Relationships between Individuals
Book | 2nd edition 2016 | Europe | Arthur Hartkamp
European law affects national private law in many ways. This is not only true for EU Directives, but also for the EU Treaties, the EU Charter on Fundamental Rights and the general principles of EU law. This book explores the influence of European law on legal relationships between individuals.
This rise of a particular kind of European Union legislation known as the ‘optional instrument’ is a novel trend in the context of EU law, and one that until now has not been comprehensively mapped or explored. This study examines and discusses existing and proposed EU Optional Instruments (OIs) in different fields of European law, including company law, intellectual property law and procedural law (such as the European Company, the Community Trade Mark and the European Small Claims Procedure, respectively), as well as contract law.
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.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Gautier Busschaert
Whereas participatory democracy was traditionally meant to further the maximum participation of citizens in political life, the EU supports a modern version of the participatory ideal where citizens are represented by a selfdesignated elite of civil society experts. This book takes a critical stance on that technocratic form of government. At the same time, it examines whether there are realistic ways for a bureaucratic organization like the EU to involve a truly civil society of active citizens in governance.
La Protection de personnes fuyant un conflit armé et d'autres situations de violence
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Matthew Happold, Maria Pichou
Issues relating to the reception of asylum seekers in the EU are increasingly controversial. The Luxembourg and Strasbourg courts have taken rather different approaches. This book seeks to examine the two regimes and their interactions.
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.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Jessica Schmidt, Carlos Esplugues, Rafael Arenas Garcia
This book focuses on the consequences of the financial crisis for EU law – not only with respect to various specific areas of the law, but also with respect to very fundamental issues regarding the role and function of the European Union and European law.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Mitja Kovac, Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe
This edited volume addresses the importance, implications, practices, problems and the role of economic evidence in EU competition law. It includes contributions on the use of the economic approach in the application and enforcement of EU competition law in different EU countries, candidate member states and third countries.
Book | 2nd edition 2016 | Europe | Gert Straetmans, Jules Stuyck
This book gives legal practitioners, but also scholars and students, a comprehensive, but concise and practice-oriented introduction into the major issues of Belgian regulation on Market Practices.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | Europe | Christina Peristeridou
This book develops a theory for the principle of legality in European criminal law. Its focus is on the legitimising and normative functions of this principle.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | Europe | Ton van den Brink, Michiel Luchtman, Miroslava Scholten
How does EU membership affect national sovereignty? This edited volume offers a broader perspective on sovereignty relying on the international law concept.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | Europe | Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, Ioannis Papageorgiou
Regional integration systems are becoming increasingly important. This book analyses how regional integration systems all over the world might be able to act as defenders or promoters of democracy, rule of law and the respect for human rights among their members.
