An analytical exploration of the international normative framework
Book | 1st edition 2014 | United Kingdom | Sarah-Ida Spronk-van der Meer
Worldwide, children face significant health risks. The right to health of the child offers insight into the ways in which these risks should be mitigated. However, the concept of ‘the highest attainable standard of health of the child’ as laid down in article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child remains unclear.
Looking at the practices in the USA, the Netherlands and the UK, this book investigates whether imposition of civil liability on securities underwriters can help to deter material misstatements of corporate information by securities issuers in primary markets.
(Lack of) Harmony between Industrial Economics and Competition Law
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Hila Nevo
Market definition plays a critical role in EC competition law, as the first step of any investigation into the nature of competition in a given industry. This book strives for a greater harmony between law and economics in defining antitrust markets.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Viktoria Harsagi, C.H. van Rhee
The story of collective redress in the European Union up to the present day may be qualified as a story of missed opportunities and small steps forward. The editors of the present volume hope that the future of collective redress in Europe will be brighter than the past. They hope that the volume will further the discussion on collective redress in Europe by providing the most up-to-date information in the field, and that this will lead to the implementation of effective collective redress mechanisms in the various EU Member States
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Philipp Kiiver, Jakub Kodym
When buying goods or services on behalf of a public authority, procurement officers must translate the buyer’s needs into tender documents that are clear, lawful, and well-designed. This guide helps them in this task. Rich in practical examples, it is written for procurement practitioners at all levels of government – from the local to the international – including drafters of calls for tenders, controllers, tender evaluators, managers who authorize public expenditure, risk managers and auditors, as well as for students of public procurement law and public administration.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Wolfgang Benedek, Matthias Kettemann, Koen De Feyter, Matthias C. Kettemann, Christina Voigt
What lies in the common interest of the international community? How are those common interests protected? What is the role of states and of the international community? This book looks at the protection of common interests and shows how international law is progressively moving away from a system based on territorial sovereignty to a system based on shared responsibilities among states and other actors.
An analysis of the obligations of states and the United Nations to prevent genocide at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Etienne Ruvebana
This book studies the pivotal obligation to prevent genocide under international law and more particularly the extent of that obligation under the Genocide Convention and customary international law. The author puts forward a distinction between primary, secondary and tertiary levels of prevention.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Sarah Schoenmaekers, Wouter Devroe, Niels Philipsen
This book aims to provide stakeholders – students, but also academics, practitioners, civil servants, and consumers - with a better knowledge of the EU rules on public procurement and State aid. By treating these two legal fields in one volume, the book also intends to draw attention to the largely unexplored links and interfaces between public procurement and State aid rules.
European jurisdictions play a central role in intercountry adoption, both as countries of origin for children being placed, and as receiving countries. The question that this book aims to answer is very simple: how can we best protect the rights of these children?
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Bernard Hubeau, Ashley Terlouw
Legal Aid in the Low Countries deals with the system of legal aid in Belgium and the Netherlands. Central questions in the book are whether the conditions for a sound legal aid system are met, especially in the fields of law that mainly concern the ‘have nots’; the main ethical considerations that legal aid providers have to take into account; and the alternatives for legal aid and complementary solutions to enhance access to justice.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Pieter Boeles, Maarten den Heijer, Gerrie Lodder, Kees Wouters
This book provides an overview of the state of EU migration law in 2014. It explores the meaning of EU legislation on migration in the light of fundamental rights and principles of Union law as explained in leading case-law of the European courts. It is especially aimed at students, but may likewise be useful for practitioners, policy makers or others interested in the legal foundations of migration in Europe.
The Jurisprudence of the International Criminal Court
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Raphael Kamuli
Scrutinizing all the relevant case-law of the ICC, this book elucidates the paradigm that the ICC’s jurisprudence represents in international criminal justice. It presents in-depth knowledge of how contemporary international criminal justice preserves, departs from or extends the principles that have developed since the Nuremberg Trials. The author explains how the ICC affirms that the most serious crimes of international concern must not go unpunished.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | United Kingdom | Martha M. Roggenkamp, Martha Roggenkamp, Henrik Bjornebye
This 10th European Energy Law Report includes chapters on the following topics: “EU Energy Law: Case Law and Infrastructure Developments”, “Internal Gas Market Developments – Security and Safety of Supply” and “Greening EU Energy Markets – Promoting and Trading Renewables”.
After thirteen years of discussion, the Anti-Monopoly Law of the People’s Republic of China was promulgated on 30 August 2007 and entered into force in August 2008. This book investigates to what extent competition goals may influence merger policy by taking a comparative perspective. To address this central research question, this book focuses on four major issues; the legislative history of the Anti-Monopoly Law and merger policy; the evolution of the debate on competition goals in the US and the EU; the evolution of incorporating the efficiency goal into merger policy; and the question whether competition goals may have an impact on the analysis of merger cases.
This book proposes a novel way to assess pain and suffering damages. It is based on specialised scientific information regarding the impact of injuries and investigates the positive legal and economic implications that would result from its implementation compared to current approaches.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Katharina Boele-Woelki, Nina Dethloff, Werner Gephart
This volume focuses on comparative and international family law in Europe in their respective cultural contexts. The interventions address the new Principles of European Family Law regarding Property Relations between Spouses, the proposed EU private international law regulations for spouses and registered partners for international couples and their property relations, the laws of a growing number of countries which legislate non-formalized relationships and the new developments regarding social, biological and legal parentage.
The value of rehabilitation and the management of high risk offenders
Book | 1st edition 2014 | United Kingdom | Piet van Kempen, Warren Young
The need to prevent convicted prisoners and other offenders from reoffending constitutes a major challenge for both criminal justice and penitentiary systems. This volume therefore first of all focuses on the value of restoring offenders to a useful life from the perspective of prisoners, their family, society, the tax-payer, prison staff and administration and victims, as well as from a criminological viewpoint.
This book about the Mondragon cooperatives in the Spanish Basque Country is a critical reflection on the origin and further development of one of the most highly-praised cooperative enterprises in the world.
The Interface between Patents and Human Rights. Does one size fit all?
Book | 1st edition 2014 | United Kingdom | Jennifer Sellin
Millions of people worldwide lack adequate access to medicines, particularly in developing countries. This book focuses on one aspect of access to medicines: the affordability of essential medicines, and its connection to human rights and patents.
