Private Military and Security Companies and State Responsibility for Their Unlawful Conduct in Conflict Areas
Book | 1st edition 2015 | Evgeni Moyakine
In the modern globalized world, so-called private military and security companies (PMSCs) are employed by a variety of actors in times of both war and peace. They are employed by, and perform a plethora of services for, not only international organizations, NGOs and multinationals, but also States. Given that there are still regulatory gaps in the national and international legal frameworks applicable to PMSCs and that the lines of responsibility often are unclear, State responsibility becomes an important instrument for attaining justice and ensuring respect for international law by private contractors.
(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 | 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 | 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.
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.
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 criminalisation of forced marriage in Dutch, English and international criminal law
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Iris Haenen
Forced marriages take place all over the world, both in times of peace and in times of conflict. This book provides a comparative perspective on the criminalisation of forced marriage, focusing on the question of whether, and, if so how, the practice of forced marriage should be criminalised under Dutch and international law.
Comparative-Historical Essays on Developments in Civil Law
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Michaël Milo, Jan Lokin, Jan M. Smits
200 years ago many civil law jurisdictions adhered to exclusive national codifications of private law, and abandoned the old Ius Commune. In our contemporary days the shades of national law slowly melt away, and we imagine a future where new common laws will continue to take shape.
Military Cross-Border Computer Network Operations under International Law (paperback)
Book | 1st edition 2014 | World | Johann-Christoph Woltag
This book identifies rules and limits of cross-border computer network operations for which States bear the international responsibility during both peace and war. It consequently addresses questions on jus ad bellum and jus in bello in addition to State responsibility.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Miroslawa Myszke-Nowakowska
This book responds to the current intriguing questions concerning the impact of the choice of law rules on the free movement of companies by analyzing the most recent ECJ decisions, EU legislature and doctrine in that field. It addresses vigorous discussions and a multitude of legal issues concerning European Company Law, Comparative Law as well as Private International Law in a desirable way both for the legal practitioners and academics.
A Review from the Perspective of University-Industry R&D Cooperation
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Mario Cisneros
State funding constitutes an important tool to promote innovation by creating links between industry, universities and R&D institutions. In this context, the development of a legal framework that promotes an efficient use of State aid in R&D cooperation represents an important challenge for the EU.
Book | 2nd edition 2014 | Europe | Norbert Reich, Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz, Peter Rott, Klaus Tonner
In recent years, EU consumer law has been subject to spectacular decisions by the European Court of Justice, with important consequences for the private law of Member States. Currently, it is under scrutiny by the EC Commission, which has just published a proposal for the revision of important aspects of the EU consumer law acquis. The authors have taken a broad horizontal approach at the European acquis, thereby reflecting on the history, the achievements and also the shortcomings of EC law.