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This book collects contributions from European countries that have created ‘fusion centres’ or that have attributed the ‘all-source threat assessment’ assignment to an existing body. The result paints a specific and valuable picture and gives a unique insight into the way integrated analyses are produced, not in the least because all contributions were written by people from within the fusion centres; not by outsiders.

This edited volume tests the Principles of European Family Law on Parental Responsibilities in a range of legal systems, and in so doing assesses these legal systems in view of the Principles, and the Principles in view of these legal systems.

This book combines an insight into the legal aspects of operations conducted as part of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) of the EU with an analysis of the status and obligations of international organizations under international law and applies the findings thereof to the law of armed conflict and human rights in relation to ESDP operations.

Contributors: Fabián O. Raimondo, Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány, Erik Kok, Wouter Werner, Celso Eduardo F. Coracini, Michael Moesenthin, Christopher M. Rassi, Dawn L. Rothe, Dimcho Dimov, Paul de Hert, Gentian Zyberi and Göran Sluiter

This volume in the EFL-Series aims at enabling a larger and more contextualised view on succession law, by studying the issue of imperative inheritance law from five different perspectives: legal anthropology, legal history, sociology of law, law and economics, and comparative law. All perspectives are introduced by eminent scholars.

The present volume deals with terrorism, both the legislative reactions to it and its impact on human rights. It is argued that the preservation of human rights is vital for the prevention of terrorism, encompassing state and non-state terrorism alike.

Contributors: Peter Bal, Pedro Caeiro, James Cockayne, Celso Eduardo Faria Coracini, Rob Cryer, André de Hoogh, Masha Fedorova, Leena Grover, André Klip, Claus Kreß, Miguel Ângelo Lemos, Anne-Sophie Massa, Avril McDonald, Gregory S. McNeal, Fabián O. Raimondo, Göran Sluiter, Sergey Vasiliev and Gentian Zyberi.

This volume contains the most important decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for the period 14 October 2003 - 5 December 2003. All decisions are commented on by distinguished international scholars and academics.Contributors:Denis Abels, Rogier Bartels, Megan Fairlie, Steven Freeland, Maria Kalafa-Gbandi, Maartje Krabbe, Mark McKarel, Yannis Naziris, Daniel Ntanda-Nsereko, Olaoluwa Olusanya and Natalie Wagner

Contributors: Isidoro Blanco Cordero, Wendy de Bondt, Anne-Marie de Brouwer, Els de Busser, Michele Caianiello, Menno Dolman, Micaela Frulli, Eric Iverson, Dov Jacobs, Gerhard Kemp, Marloes Kleijn Hesselink, Goreth Kyakuwa, Ousman Njikam, Jens David Ohlin, Helmut Satzger, Joanna Spanoudis, Ignaz Stegmiller, Heikelina Verrijn Stuart and Edith Weemaels

This edited volume ascertains the added value of international criminal tribunals in fighting impunity for crimes against international law and fostering political reconciliation in affected States. It aims to identify best practices which may inform the choice between the establishment of international criminal tribunals and recourse to other mechanisms, and which may render existing or future tribunals more effective institutions.

In this work the author tries to uncover the parameters the labour legislators used in the development of labour protection. He formulates a number of theses that allow him to establish a theory of labour law. The themes dealt with in this work fit in an overall vision on labour in its relation with capital as dealt with in law.

This book sheds an innovating light on the relations between EU and non-EU countries and nationals, as far as social security is concerned. These are dealt with in a number of contributions by eminent international experts.

This book explores the intricate, complex, and sometimes contentious relationship between the European Union’s agenda for a free internal market and the protection of labour standards within the European Union. Its immediate focus is on recent legal developments, both in case law and in legislation.

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 book aims to foster the debate on flexicurity in the European Union from a multi-disciplinary approach. It raised key questions, such as: In what context does flexicurity play a role? What are the current challenges for the world of work? What is the meaning of flexicurity? How is it to be understood in European economic and social policy? What is the success of the ‘Danish model’ and is it transferable? What is the effect of the flexicurity debate on labour laws? How will European flexicurity policy develop and what can Member States do to become flexicure?

This book focuses on the relationship between the two instruments for transnational co-operation in the field of evidence gathering, namely mutual assistance in administrative matters and mutual assistance in criminal matters. This volume not only contains an analysis of the relevant rules on transnational law enforcement co-operation, but also the results of a comparative study into the nature and organisation of national law enforcement in three States. Special attention is paid to banking secrecy.