A Comparative Study of the International, EU, and Chinese Regulation of the Sustainability of Biofuels
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Taotao Yue
Biofuels are promoted as a type of renewable energy from biomass that replaces fossil fuels in transportation, in an attempt to achieve the three-fold objectives of energy security, rural development, and GHG emission reductions.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Brigitte Feuillet–Liger, Kristina Orfali, Geneviève Schamps
Biomedicine has generated many benefits but it can also bring its share of risks. How do different countries ensure the legal and/or ethical protection of their citizens in this context? This book analyzes the nature and scope of such a protection.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Miao He
As the world’s population grows and the demands for natural resources increase, protected areas are becoming more important, but also more threatened. On the one hand, conservation of protected areas can contribute to the safeguarding of human rights; on the other hand, neglecting human rights can be a trigger for the mismanagement and destruction of protected areas. How can an objective and systematic approach be used to balance human rights protection and the conservation of protected areas?
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.
The Allocation of Limited Rights by the Administration
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Paul Adriaanse, Frank van Ommeren, Willemien den Ouden, Johan Wolswinkel
Managing scarcity to serve the public interest is a classic government task. An important way to execute this task is by allocating individual rights that are only available in limited quantities, such as CO2 emission allowances, gambling licences, subsidies, radio frequencies, public contracts and parking permits.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Jean-Bernard Auby
L’ouvrage présente un panorama des questions majeures qui se posent dans les différents droits de la procédure administrative. The book gives an overview of the main issues encountered in the various national laws on administrative procedure.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Hannah Müller
This book examines the legal frameworks applying to offshore grid development under international law, European Union law and national law. It reveals that these legal frameworks have not been developed to facilitate such complex (cross-border) infrastructure.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Mehdi Piri Damagh
This book contains the latest update of international and regional instruments with respect to prevention and compensation of transboundary damage caused by pipelines.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Andrea Broderick
This book examines several aspects of the equality and non-discrimination norms in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
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.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Tobias Heldt
The book presents a proposal for a harmonised European liability regime and discusses possibilities to enhance the feasibility of such a reform. It calls for a stronger involvement of the public in the nuclear sector and emphasises the intrinsic link between effective safety regulation and liability and compensation mechanisms.
The 1951 Refugee Convention and International Humanitarian Law (paperback)
Book | 1st edition 2015 | World | Vanessa Holzer
This book determines the international meaning of the refugee definition in Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Refugee Convention as regards refugee protection claims related to situations of armed conflict in the country of origin.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | Europe | Bram Akkermans, Jaap Hage, Nicole Kornet, Jan Smits
There is an increasing debate on the way in which the EU has developed and what it must look like in the future. This debate includes a discussion on one of the core aspects of European integration: at which level should the rules be set and who decides where the authority to do so should lie? Private law has an important role to play in this discussion. Many private law rules touch on the core of the internal market as they serve to foster trade or to offer protection to market participants, such as consumers.
The influence of CJEU case law on national legal systems
Book | 1st edition 2015 | Europe | Advocatenkantoor Wauters bv
One of the main objectives of this research is to examine this influence and more specifically the influence of EU law on cooperation between public authorities.
An analytical exploration of the international normative framework
Book | 1st edition 2014 | United Kingdom | Sarah-Ida Spronk-van der Meer
Worldwide, children face significant health risks. The right to health of the child offers insight into the ways in which these risks should be mitigated. However, the concept of ‘the highest attainable standard of health of the child’ as laid down in article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child remains unclear.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Philipp Kiiver, Jakub Kodym
When buying goods or services on behalf of a public authority, procurement officers must translate the buyer’s needs into tender documents that are clear, lawful, and well-designed. This guide helps them in this task. Rich in practical examples, it is written for procurement practitioners at all levels of government – from the local to the international – including drafters of calls for tenders, controllers, tender evaluators, managers who authorize public expenditure, risk managers and auditors, as well as for students of public procurement law and public administration.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Sarah Schoenmaekers, Wouter Devroe, Niels Philipsen
This book aims to provide stakeholders – students, but also academics, practitioners, civil servants, and consumers - with a better knowledge of the EU rules on public procurement and State aid. By treating these two legal fields in one volume, the book also intends to draw attention to the largely unexplored links and interfaces between public procurement and State aid rules.
Constitutions and Fundamental Legislative Procedures from the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom ECHR and Charter
Book | 1st edition 2014 | United Kingdom | Sascha Hardt, Aalt Heringa, Aalt Willem Heringa
Sources of Constitutional Law contains a selection of constitutions and fundamental legislative instruments from five Western democracies: the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.