This rise of a particular kind of European Union legislation known as the ‘optional instrument’ is a novel trend in the context of EU law, and one that until now has not been comprehensively mapped or explored. This study examines and discusses existing and proposed EU Optional Instruments (OIs) in different fields of European law, including company law, intellectual property law and procedural law (such as the European Company, the Community Trade Mark and the European Small Claims Procedure, respectively), as well as contract law.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Esther van Schagen
Using insights from multilevel governance and pluralism, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the development of European private law in the Dutch and German legal order. It focuses on the question whether the coexistence of national and European state and non-state actors is detrimental or beneficial for the predictability, consistency, accessibility and responsiveness of European private law.
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?
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Gautier Busschaert
Whereas participatory democracy was traditionally meant to further the maximum participation of citizens in political life, the EU supports a modern version of the participatory ideal where citizens are represented by a selfdesignated elite of civil society experts. This book takes a critical stance on that technocratic form of government. At the same time, it examines whether there are realistic ways for a bureaucratic organization like the EU to involve a truly civil society of active citizens in governance.
Protecting the Rights of Children Involved in Armed Conflicts
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Bo Viktor Nylund
In a political climate that holds limited promise for addressing the issue of child recruitment, Child Soldiers and Transitional Justice: Protecting the Rights of Children Involved in Armed Conflicts challenges the trend towards a narrow focus on recruitment and use of the child, and seeks to contribute to more effective prevention and responses that offer the child a chance of recovery, reconciliation and reintegration.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Caroline Cauffman, Jan Smits
In numerous fields of law, ranging from family law to company law, private actors increasingly set their own rules, revert to private enforcement of those rules and choose the applicable law.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Jessica Schmidt, Carlos Esplugues, Rafael Arenas Garcia
This book focuses on the consequences of the financial crisis for EU law – not only with respect to various specific areas of the law, but also with respect to very fundamental issues regarding the role and function of the European Union and European law.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Jan Buelens, Marc Rigaux
The European economic unification has come about without any adjusting or accompanying economic and social policies. Its effects on social and human relations go far beyond the economic and commercial domains. This book discusses the changes that are apparent at three levels: the primary economic level, the social level and the general or societal level.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Jan Wouters, Philip De Man, Nele Verlinden
This book offers a comprehensive yet concise take on the legal regulation of the various phases in the complex cycle of armed conflicts, from prevention to reconstruction, and covering everything in between, in particular the vast body of rules laid down in current international humanitarian law.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Jan Wouters, Philip De Man, Nele Verlinden
This book offers a comprehensive yet concise take on the legal regulation of the various phases in the complex cycle of armed conflicts, from prevention to reconstruction, and covering everything in between, in particular the vast body of rules laid down in current international humanitarian law.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | André Klip, Steven Freeland, Anzinga Low
This forty-seventh volume of annotated leading case law of international criminal tribunals contains decisions taken by Special Court for Sierra Leone 2009 - 2012.
Special Court for Sierra Leone 1 January 2008 - 18 March 2009
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | André Klip, Steven Freeland, Anzinga Low
This forty-sixth volume of annotated leading case law of international criminal tribunals contains decisions taken by the Special Court for Sierra Leone 1 January 2008 - 18 March 2009.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Bart Bellen
This book analyses share purchase agreements governed by Belgian law used for company acquisitions, whereby a purchaser acquires control over a Belgian target company through the acquisition of a controlling shareholding.
Private Military Companies in Iraq and the State Monopoly of Regulated Force
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Nicolai Due-Gundersen
While many texts focus only on existing or proposed legislation, this book analyses the public perception of private military companies (PMCs) and how their use by states affects how the general public perceives state legitimacy of monopolizing force.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Mitja Kovac, Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe
This edited volume addresses the importance, implications, practices, problems and the role of economic evidence in EU competition law. It includes contributions on the use of the economic approach in the application and enforcement of EU competition law in different EU countries, candidate member states and third countries.
