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 ...

Common core and better Law in european family Law

Understanding EU Law

objectives, principles and methods of community Law

Regional integration and Courts of Justice

International cooperation in Social Security

how to cope with globalisation?

European evidence warrant

transnational judicial inquiries in the EU

The transnational gathering and use of criminal evidence is a complex and sensitive matter that affects basic principles inherent in national criminal justice systems. Replacing the mutual assistance regime (letters rogatory) by a mutual recognition regime intends to facilitate the admissibility of evidence obtained from ...

European traditions in civil Procedure

European co-operation has resulted in many new and challenging opportunities for legal scholars who, since the so-called codification period, have become used to operating in a purely national context. This applies also to scholars in the field of civil procedure, who, for a considerable period ...

Harmonization of criminal Law in Europe

In articles by legal scholars from six countries, the ongoing harmonization of criminal law in Europe is analysed from different perspectives. Through an examination of the rapid progress in European Union Law in this area, both the harmonization of substantial criminal law provisions and criminal ...

Indirect discrimination

a case study into the development of the legal concept of indirect discrimination under EC Law

Introduced into European Community law by the Court of Justice through its case law in the field of free movement of workers, the legal concept of indirect discrimination has evolved into one with far wider and greater relevance to many other areas of EC law ...

European cross-border insolvency regulation

a study of Regulation 1346/2000 on Insolvency Proceedings in the light of a paradigm of co-operation and a Comitas Europaea

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the regulation of cross- border insolvencies in Europe. Council Regulation 1346/2000 on Insolvency Proceedings forms the natural focal point of such a study. However, while this book explores in detail the background, legal basis as well as ...

All's well that ends registered?

the substantive and private international Law aspects of non-marital registered relationships in Europe