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This book addresses the following questions:• Does welfare state effort enhance happiness?• Why might social security enhance happiness?• How might it be reformed to make more impact on well-being?• How does income and health impact on well-being?• How does income improve the well-being of widows?• Does well-being influence employment probabilities?• How is the well-being of children related to other factors in society?

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.

Population ageing is one of the most difficult challenges facing social protection in the advanced welfare states. It also has important implications for middle and low income economies. Increasing longevity has threatened to undermine the financial viability of pension systems, but pension reform is politically hazardous.

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.

The European Convention on Human Rights and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights are of increasing importance in the area of social security. This book provides a practical guide to the social security issues which have been considered by the Court of Human Rights and to give an overview of how these have been analysed by the Court. In addition, some examples are given as to how the provisions of the Convention have been interpreted by a range of national courts

The book opens with an introduction to the conventions and then presents contributions of experts working for various organisations which are of extreme importance for the implementation and understanding of standards: the Committee of Experts of the ILO, the Council of Europe, a national government, university professors, a judge, a government advisor from an East European country, and a trade union. The book concludes with a chapter in which the contributions are put into perspective. As a result, the legal meaning and interpretation of the standards is approached from various angles in a unique way.

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.

Despite the tragic death toll, massive displacement, alleged genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, the Sudanese conflicts have neither featured in the legal literature nor been mentioned in the practice of international Tribunals. This book aims to rectify this by focusing on the ‘Sudan’s armed conflicts’ as a case study.

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.

The Brussels II bis Regulation contains uniform rules for jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and in matters of parental responsibility. This book addresses the impact and application of the new rules in the form of national reports.

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.