Book | 1st edition 2018 | United Kingdom | Jerzy Jendroska, Magdalena Bar
'Procedural Environmental Rights: Principle X in Theory and Practice' provides an overview of various aspects of the current status, development and practice of rights of access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters following their codification as non-binding principles in Principle X of the Rio Declaration.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | World | Maïté Van Regemorter
Does a person accused of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes before the International Criminal Court (ICC) enjoy the same human rights as a person accused of the same crimes before a national jurisdiction?
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Martha Roggenkamp, Catherine Banet
This volume includes chapters on “EU Energy and Climate Law – Policy and Jurisprudence”, “Energy and Climate Treaty Developments”, “Energy Infrastructure Developments: Offshore Electricity Systems and Network Investments”, “Heat Supply Legislation in the EU” and “Security of Energy Supply and Safety”.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Sandrine Maljean-Dubois
The central topic of this book is the effectiveness of environmental law. It offers a fruitful and stimulating dialogue between practitioners and academics, from varied countries and varied fields, combining empirical and theoretical approaches to the topic.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Sirja-Leena Penttinen, Ioanna Mersinia
Energy Transitions: Regulatory and Policy Trends highlights the recent developments in EU energy law and underlying policy aspects that shape the regulatory approach to energy.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Xiaowei Yu
Preventing Medical Malpractice and Compensating Victimised Patients in China is the first book in English on the legal remedies for preventing medical errors and compensating victims of medical malpractice in China from an economic and legal perspective.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Eduardo Pereira
This book focusses on key practical issues faced by oil and gas companies in different parts of the world in negotiating and implementing Joint Operating Agreements.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Ken Oliphant
In recent decades, the liability of public authorities has been one of the main areas of development in tort law in Europe, with major reforms implemented or considered at a national level, and a steady stream of major court decisions. During the same period, ‘Member State liability’ has also been recognised in the law of the EU, and the interplay of principles of national and EU law – and additionally the ‘just satisfaction’ jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights – evidently warrants close attention.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Daniël Cuypers, Jogchum Vrielink
A carefully selected and rigourously peer reviewed set of papers from the ‘Equal is not Enough’ conference hosted at Antwerp University in February 2015.
Economics, Access, Law, and Regulations in Key Jurisdictions
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Tina Hunter
Concentrating solely on shale gas, this book is structured around five themes, namely an overview and introduction to shale gas activities, shale gas economics and energy security, access to shale gas resources, shale gas law and regulation, and the future of shale gas.
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 | 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.
