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With three issues per year, the R.E.D.C. is both a doctrinal tool and a source of information on the evolution of consumer law in the Member States.

This book delves into the evolving landscape of sustainable finance, exploring banks' potential liability for environmental and social harm caused by borrowers. This legal analysis examines both Belgian law and EU prudential regulations, offering key lessons from climate-related litigation. Discover the critical link between regulatory developments and civil liability risks.

The book aims to stimulate and strengthen cross-disciplinary research on sustainability, law and criminology and to provide inspiration for sustainability education and legal practice.

Angelo Goethals' doctoral thesis on The Legal Framework for (Inter)connecting the Belgian Offshore Wind Farms examines legal challenges and frameworks governing Belgium's offshore wind farm transmissions and interconnections. Through the PhairywinD project, funded by the Energy Transition Fund, the study explores grid development, market issues, and licensing processes, addressing concepts like offshore bidding zones, energy islands, hybrid interconnectors, and the interplay between European and international law. Defended in 2025 at Ghent University, the research provides valuable insights for the future of offshore wind energy in the North Sea and beyond.

This book examines how complex intermediaries, such as financial institutions, affect shareholder rights in publicly traded companies. These intermediaries pose challenges in the relationships between companies, shareholders, and ultimate investors. The book explores solutions, like Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), to safeguard investors' interests.

This book first sets out a conceptual framework of three main types of product-as-a-service contracts (product-oriented, use-oriented, result-oriented PSS) based on real-life examples. Second, it identifies and analyses the relevant EU regulations as well as the national (BE, NL) contract laws applicable to these contracts. Third, it evaluates the current regulatory framework of product-as-a-service contracts in order to identify its strengths and weaknesses. Fourth, legal solutions are proposed to tackle the identified weaknesses and to promote balanced, truly sustainable product-as-a-service contracts.

This book explores possible ethical justifications for a moral duty for judges to enhance their cognition and examines how this duty sits within the existing legal framework on judicial liability, professional duties, and human rights. 

This book contains a review of forty “landmark” decisions issued by the European Court in Intellectual Property law between 2019 and 2024. As each decision originates from a dispute before a Member State court, the European Court’s rulings have, as far as possible, been summarised and analysed by authors who are familiar with the relevant national jurisdiction.

In banking and finance, transnationality permeates the day-to-day professional life and makes the dedicated lawyer an internationalist by necessity. There are good reasons for this: the intangible nature of services, the desire of operators even regulated to conquer foreign markets; sometimes because of the extraterritorial spread of local policies relating to the person of the operators or the products marketed. Although it does not always have a good reputation, private international law, with its promise of a widely understood conflict of laws discipline, is making inroads into the legal practice of this specialised and globalised sector.

This book gives an overall picture of the principles of Belgian industrial relations law, such as trade union freedom, the instruments for social dialogue, collective bargaining agreements and collective action.

The seventy-fourth volume of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains the most important decisions taken by the STL from 1 January 2014 – 31 December 2018. It provides the reader with the full text of the decisions identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented on these decisions.

Explore how NATO has evolved over 75 years, expanding membership and capabilities while facing complex security challenges. The author provides valuable insights into the organization's legal landscape. An invaluable resource for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to navigate the intersection of international law and security.

The book shows how difficult constitutional theory about effective judicial protection in EU law is to implement.

In the wake of the Convention on the Future of Europe, and against the backdrop of the many challenges facing the EU (security, economic, migration, health, climate, digital, etc.), this book aims to take stock of the scope and content of European citizenship and its capacity to embody the values of the Union.

L'ouvrage offre une perspective inédite de la coopération administrative dans l’espace administratif européen, abordant la question de ses acteurs, ses instruments et ses enjeux.

The seventy-fifth volume of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains the most important decisions taken by the KSC from 26 April 2017 – 24 December 2020. It provides the reader with the full text of the decisions identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented on these decisions.

This volume is divided into the following parts: ‘Internal Energy Market and Climate Change: Judicial and Legislative Developments’, ‘Energy Suppliers and the Energy Supply Chain’, ‘Energy Relations between the EU and Third Countries’ and ‘Energy Systems and System Security’.

Negotiation manages a balance of power between states and governments with divergent aims. Let's enter the diplomatic arena and see if we can use concrete examples to illustrate the various aspects of a diplomatic negotiation. We can draw on conceptual analyses and confront them with empirical verification.

This book explores counterterrorism measures in Belgium and the UK, focusing on rights to liberty in the wake of European terrorist attacks during the first two decades of the century. Delve into legal frameworks, case studies, and recommendations for aligning Belgian legislation with European human rights standards.

A unique approach of this book is to use comparative case studies of political transitions in Uruguay, Lebanon, Spain, Kenya and Colombia to illustrate the historical development of transitional justice which gradually extended the reach of international human rights law to manage political transitions, thereby limiting impunity. Through these case studies, the book shows how transitional justice intervention has been shaped by distinct histories of conflict, elite pactism and transitional jurisprudence.