European Constitutionalism beyond Lisbon

Eds. Jan Wouters, Luc Verhey, Philipp Kiiver. As Europe's leaders seek to finally secure the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon after the Irish "no" vote, it is time to take a step back and review, in a broader perspective, the past decade of ...

The European Private Company (SPE)

a critical analysis of the EU draft statute

Eds. D.F.M.M. Zaman...[et al]. This book deals with the Proposal for a Council Regulation on the Statute for a European Private Company (Societas Privata Europaea, SPE) as put forward by the European Commission in the summer of 2008. It adds to ...

European challenges in contemporary family Law

This book contains the contributions to the third CEFL conference which took place in Oslo in June 2007. The general topic European Challenges in Contemporary Family Law has been divided into five themes: The Harmonisation of Family Law Children and Their Parents Irregular Marriages and ...

Children and their parents

a comparative study of the legal position of children with regard to their international and biological parents in english and dutch Law

This is a book about children and their parents. There are many different kinds of children and at least about as many different kinds of parents. In addition to the many different disciplines that study children and their parents, such as sociology, psychology, child studies ...

A functional legal design for reliable electricity supply

how technology affects Law

The liberalisation and international integration of electricity markets have led to a dramatic increase in the complexity of the electricity sector. Rather than hierarchical control, it is the legal framework (#rules of the game#) that determines the behaviour of actors such as power generators, traders ...

Judicial case management and efficiency in civil litigation

The present volume addresses judicial case management and issues of efficiency in civil litigation. Apart from France, the focus is on these issues in three comparatively small jurisdictions which are often ignored in the international legal debate: Scotland, Belgium and the Netherlands. In addition the ...

Conflicts between Fundamental Rights

Every human rights lawyer at some point or other comes across an issue of conflicting human rights. Yet there is surprisingly little literature on this issue; especially if one wants to examine the matter at a general level, above specific conflicts such as those between ...

Supranational criminology

towards a criminology of International crimes

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. Supranational criminology entails the study of international crimes, behaviour that shows affinity with these crimes, the causes and ...

Social protection in an ageing world

Population ageing is one of the most difficult challenges facing social protection in the advanced welfare states. It also has important implications for middle and low income economies. Increasing longevity has threatened to undermine the financial viability of pension systems, but pension reform is politically ...

Annotated leading cases of International Criminal Tribunals. Vol.13

Timor Leste. The especial panels for serious crimes 2001-2003

Eds. André Klip, Göran Sluiter.

Debates in family Law around the globe at the dawn of the 21st century

Ed. Katharina Boele-Woelki. This volume contains articles on three issues that at the dawn of the 21st century have provoked passionate discussion. Legislative measures are taken, judicial decisions vary also within a jurisdiction, and arguments in legal literature are exchanged. The topics concern: (1) (Compulsory ...

The World Trade Organization

a legal and institutional analysis

The World Trade Organization, set up in 1995, has become a centrepiece of global economic governance in a fragmented international legal and institutional system. The WTO oversees an extensive body of international trade rules. But it has also become a widely contested organization, as its ...

Defence rights during administrative investigations

A comparative study into defence rights during administrative investigations against EU fraud in England and Wales, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden and Switzerland

This book contains a comparative study into defence rights during administrative investigations in the context of administrative law. This book concentrates on the work of the European Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF, which ordered this study. Since administrative law is about decisionmaking, defence rights are not the ...

Quality of judicial organisation and checks and balances

This comparative work looks at approaches to judicial administration in France and the Netherlands within the frameworks of the judicial systems and constitutional law. It explores the possibility of creating a normative way of assessing the quality of the judicial organization. The argument is put ...

Convergence and divergence of family Law in Europe

This volume contains the written versions of presentations given at the international conference Convergence and Divergence of Family Law in Europe, organised in Amsterdam in September 2006. The main objective of this conference was to instigate an in-depth discussion regarding various facets of the convergence ...

Unravelling sovereignty

human rights actors and the structure of international Law

This book questions the continued relevance of sovereignty to determine the nature of legal personality, the capacity to create international law, and the location of authority over territory. These issues are examined through the activities of non-state actors. At a time when many commentators are ...

Notaries in Europa-growing fields of competence

Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia

Model family code

from a global perspective

In extensive areas of private law, namely in the law of obligations, endeavours to comprehensively harmonize and unify different legal systems were already commenced in the second half of the twentieth century. However, family law has only followed suit in very recent times. This Model ...

Good governance and the European Union

reflections on concepts, institutions and substance

The White Paper of the Commission on European Governance focussed attention on the notion of good governance in the European Union. One of the possible criticisms on this White Paper is that it does not define the concept in any meaningful way. At the same ...

Universal jurisdiction in modern international Law

expansion of national jurisdiction for prosecuting serious crimes under international Law

This study is based on the following questions: Which jurisdiction can and should be exercised for the prosecution of individuals responsible for gross and serious violations of human rights? And especially, in this regard, what is the role of universal jurisdiction? In explaining the modern ...