Preventing and sanctioning hindrances to the right of individual petition before the European Court of Human Rights

Whereas it is common today to focus on the overwhelming backlog of applications before the European Court of Human Rights, this book deliberately shows that the Court in Strasbourg could be seized by even more applicants if States Parties really confirmed to Article 34 ECHR ...

Human Rights protection inthe european legal order

the interaction between the european and the national courts

Ensuring the protection of human rights in Europe has become a highly complex exercise. Where courts are faced with a human rights claim, they not only have to examine the validity of that claim, but they also need to have a clear understanding of the ...

Great financial disasters of our time

Great financial disasters are not a new phenomenon. Probably the first well documented financial disaster was the so-called Tulipmania in the Netherlands in the 1630s, some 300 years before the Wall Street crash. At the end of the 20th century, a similar phenomenon occurred. This ...

La justice des mineurs en Europe

une question de spécialité?

Dans le contexte de profondes mutations du droit des mineurs et de la création en France, d’un code de justice pénale des mineurs on peut s’interroger sur l’avenir de la justice des mineurs en tant qu’objet d’étude spécifique mais aussi en tant qu’objet tout court ...

The international competition network at ten

origins, accomplishments and aspirations: essays

Since its inception in 2001, the International Competition Network (ICN) has achieved remarkable results. Currently uniting 114 competition authorities from both developed and developing countries, the ICN has contributed significantly to the harmonization and convergence of global procedural and substantive antitrust law and policy.The ...

The landscape of the legal professions in Europe and the USA

continuity and change

The present volume deals with recent developments in the legal profession in Europe and in the United States of America from a comparative and historical perspective. Apart from discussing the legal profession in general, specific attention is paid to the Latin Notary, the Advocates, the ...

Latest developments in EU private international Law

The European Union (EU) is committed to achieve the goal of creating a network of instruments that will comprehensively cover almost all the aspects of Private International Law. This will significantly affect the freedom of national legislators to undertake their law-making tasks. However, these two ...

The Costanzo obligation

the obligations of National Administrative Authorities in the case of incompatibility between national Law and european Law

National administrative authorities are obliged to leave provisions of national law unapplied when these are incompatible with EU law. Irrespective of their position and powers under national law, national administrative authorities are supposed to comply with this so-called ‘Costanzo obligation’ as established by the Court ...

The european composite administration

This volume focuses on the concept of a necessary entity through an interlinking with two organizational principles - the principle of cooperation and the principle of hierarchy - which imply the notions of sovereignty, respect, and the ability to undertake joint administrative action in the European Union ...

The Future of Family Property in Europe

This book covers five areas of family property law in Europe: Matrimonial Property Law in Europe, Family Contracts û Issues of Autonomy, Protection of Older People in Law, Freedom of Testation and Protection of Family Members, and the Unification of Private International Law. These issues ...

European company Law

organization, finance and capital markets

Over the last decade, the time period that is also covered by the two editions of this book, European company law has been re-written completely. Virtually no EU measure remained unchanged and most of them have undergone fundamental reform. This is astonishing since almost half ...

Law and economics in the RIA world

improving the use of economic analysis in public policy and legislation

The use of economics in public policy, in the form of ex ante Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA), is strongly advocated by international organizations such as the OECD and the World Bank. In the US and the EU, hundreds of RIAs are produced every year to ...

The Law and economics of organ procurement

Organ procurement systems are similar to in-kind economies characterized by severe restrictions and transaction costs in the absence of money because currently they are based on altruism and gift-giving. A sale prohibition imposed by the government, amplified by an increasing demand for transplants leads to ...

Competition and innovation in the EU regulation of pharmaceuticals

the case of parallel trade

This book deals with parallel trade of pharmaceuticals from a Law & Economics perspective. Traditionally, restrictions to parallel trade were regarded negatively because they ran against the rules of the EU internal market. However, in recent judgments (Bayer, Glaxo and Syfait), EU Courts questioned some of ...

Social Security as a public interest

a multidisciplinary inquiry into the foundations of the regulatory Welfare State

Eds. Gijsbert Vonk, Albertjan Tollenaar. Our social security systems face many challenges. Economic crises, the ageing of the population and changing employment patterns call for a reorientation of policies. In the last few decades the introduction of private elements has often been advocated as a ...

Women's human rights and culture

from Deadlock to dialogue

In all parts of the world, the implementation of women#s human rights is seriously being hindered by gender stereotypes, religion, custom or tradition, in short by #culture#. Culture is increasingly being used as an excuse to commit serious violations of these rights. It is ...

The implementation of the European Arrest Warrant in the European Union

Law, policy and practice

This book provides a critical analysis of the principle of mutual recognition of judicial decisions in criminal matters in the EU, through a detailed assessment of its most prominent instrument, the European Arrest Warrant (EAW). It conceptualises and contextualises the lack of clear vision in ...

Quid pro quo?

a comparative Law perspective on the mutual recognition of judicial decisions in criminal matters

Within the framework of judicial cooperation between the 27 Member States of the European Union, mutual recognition is a leading principle: it basically requires that judgments and other judicial decisions handed down by a criminal judge in any Member State must be given legal force ...

Social federalism

the creation of a layered Welfare State: the belgian case

Eds. Bea Cantillon, Patricia Popelier, Ninke Mussche. Belgium is a federation in turmoil. Politicians of the two language communities find it increasingly difficult to reach common ground on many issues. Social policy stands in the middle of these tensions. At present, social federalism in Belgium ...

Protecting pension rights in times of economic turmoil

Ed. Yves Stevens. The financial and economic crisis of 2007 to the present led to the failure of large financial institutions, the bailout of banks by national governments, and downturns in stock markets around the world. The crisis meant the failure of key businesses, the ...