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This book deals with the rights of persons, both children and adults, who feel a strong wish to find out who their biological parents are. The identification of biological parents may become important in a wide variety of situations, which run the gamut from adoption to sperm donor anonymity and ‘misattributed paternity’. A thorough comparative study of the relevant law across a number of jurisdictions found on the European continent has now for the first time been made available in English.

This eighth edition of the Collection of Conventions of the Hague Conference contains the most important multilateral treaties entered into under the auspices of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, which has been working on the progressive unification of private international law since 1893, and doing so as an intergovernmental organisation since 1955. This new edition, made necessary by a revision of the Hague Conference Statute and the adoption since 2003 of three new Conventions, reproduces the texts of the Hague Conventions in authentic versions as deposited with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

This volume contains detailed information concerning the law on property relations between spouses (matrimonial property law) in twenty-six European jurisdictions.

Contributors: Michael Bohlander, Astrid Reisinger Coracini, Masha Fedorova, Caroline Fournet, Steven Freeland, Dov Jacobs, Florian Jessberger, Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi, Katalin Ligeti, Suzannah Linton, Susana Assis Martins, Anne Pieter van der Mei, Yannis Naziris, Ousman Njikam, Oliver Schüttpelz, Desislava Stoitchkova and Shamiso Zinzombe.

This volume contains articles on three issues that at the dawn of the 21st century have provoked passionate discussion: (compulsory) arrangements regarding children; registration schemes for same-sex couples: new jurisdictions ; and the effectiveness of the pater est rule.

This fourteenth volume of annotated leading case law of international criminal tribunals contains decisions taken by the ICTY from 1 April 2003 until 13 October 2003. It provides the reader with the full text of the most important decisions, identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented the decisions. An index is included.

Contributors:Kai Ambos, Pedro Caeiro, Steven Freeland, Goreth Kyakuwa, André Klip, Brianne McGonigle, Ousman Njikam, Maria Fernanda Palma Pereira, Göran Sluiter, Alexander Zahar, and Salvatore Zappalà

This seventeenth volume of Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains decisions taken by the ICTR in the years 2003-2004. It provides the reader with the full text of the most important decisions, identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented the decisions. An index is included.Contributors: Caroline Fournet, Daniel Ntanda-Nsereko, William Shabas and Shamiso Zinzombe.

The study of international crimes, like war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, deserves to grow into a separate and fully fledged specialization within criminology: supranational criminology. This book aims to repair the fundamental and historical neglect of criminology and to break out of a state of denial by putting international crimes on the criminological agenda.

This book analyzes whether, and to what extent, the exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction in cartel and merger matters is in fact lawful under international law. It does so from a transatlantic perspective, with an emphasis on practice in the United States and the European Community. The book mainly focuses on the use of the controversial effects and implementation doctrines of jurisdiction.

This book contains the contributions to the third CEFL conference which took place in Oslo in June 2007. The general topic European Challenges in Contemporary Family Law has been divided into five themes:• The Harmonisation of Family Law• Children and Their Parents• Irregular Marriages and the Influence of Multiculturalism• (Property) Relations between Spouses and Cohabitants• Cross-Border Family Relationships.

This eleventh volume of annotated leading case law of international criminal tribunals contains decisions taken by the ICTY in the years 2002 and 2003.

The main objective of this volume is to instigate an in-depth discussion regarding various facets of the convergence/divergence discord in the field of family law.

This twelfth volume of Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains decisions taken by the ICTR in the year 2003. It provides the reader with the full text of the most important decisions, identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions.

This edited volume seeks to test the Principles of European Family Law Regarding Divorce and Maintenance Between Former Spouses in a range of legal systems, Malta, Estonia, Lithuania and Turkey; and in so doing to assess these legal systems in view of the Principles, and the Principles in view of these legal systems.

In these Principles, the CEFL has developed a comprehensive and original set of rules in the field of parental responsibilities based on respect for the rights of the child, non-discrimination and, as far as possible, self-determination. In their provisions on specific issues the Principles opt for solutions which seem to be workable and shall avoid unnecessary hardship and disputes.

What is the meaning of the “right to social security” for the world of today, at times of neo-liberalism and globalization? Which entitlements can individual citizens derive from this right? What is meant by “social security”? Is it only about minimum benefits, or also about income maintenance? Does it include assistance? Health care? Housing? Social services? hose are the crucial questions that are discussed in this book which brings together the views and opinions of numerous specialists in social protection of all disciplines and from all parts of the world.

Contributors: James Cockyane, Shahram Dana, Chris de Roy, Håkan Friman, Emanuela Fronza, Paola Gaeta, Roelof Haveman, Gerhard Kemp, Jann Kleffner, André Klip, Joachim Renzikowski, Roy Schondorf, Göran Sluiter, Taru Spronken, Jarinde Temmick Tuinstra, Larissa van den Herik, and Gentian Zyberi.

This book provides an overview of the developments in family law in Europe during the last two millennia. It aims to examine the so-called 'cultural constraints argument', which suggests that family law is unsuitable for harmonisation because the family laws of the European countries are deeply imbedded in their unique national cultures and history.