Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung des deutschen und englischen Rechts
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Saskia Constanze Zellerhoff
Ergründet die Verfasserin die aktuellen rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen für eine schiedsgerichtliche Beilegung familienrechtlicher Streitigkeiten im deutschen und englischen Recht und deren Bedeutung in der Praxis.
A Comparative Study of the International, EU, and Chinese Regulation of the Sustainability of Biofuels
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Taotao Yue
Biofuels are promoted as a type of renewable energy from biomass that replaces fossil fuels in transportation, in an attempt to achieve the three-fold objectives of energy security, rural development, and GHG emission reductions.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Ignace Claeys, Evelyne Terryn
This book three legal instruments proposed by the European Commission in the context of its Digital Single Market Strategy, which has recently become one of its priorities. The proposed instruments are: (1) a directive for the supply of digital content; (2) a directive for the online and other distance sales of goods; and (3) a regulation on cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market.
A Contemporary Disability Human Rights Approach Applied to Danish, Swedish and EU Law and Policy
Book | 1st edition 2011 | Europe | Maria Ventegodt Liisberg
Based on an analysis of the newly-adopted UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and present-day interpretations of international and European human rights instruments, this book seeks to define a contemporary disability human rights approach for the field of employment.
A Comparative Law Approach to Design, Intermediation and Data Challenges
Book | 1st edition 2022 | Europe | Ana Maria Corrêa
This book focuses on the legal governance of online platforms concerning direct and indirect discrimination against users in the housing, advertising, and labor markets. Through an extensive investigation of sources this book illustrates how statutory law and legal precedents in the E.U. and the U.S. are only partially equipped to address discrimination against statutorily protected classes in online platforms.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Georgios Terzis, Dariusz Kloza, Elzbieta Kuzelewska, Daniel Trottier
Through a collection of expert analyses, this book aims to deepen our understanding of the dangers of fake news and disinformation, while also charting well-informed and realistic ways ahead.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | United Kingdom | Guangdong Xu
This book addresses the role of legal institutions in economic growth. The massive differences in country incomes are largely the product of economic growth, which is in turn shaped, influenced, and determined by the legal infrastructure of a country. There has been a growing interest in exploring the connection between legal rules and economic growth since the 1990s.
Book | 1st edition 2011 | World | Michael Faure, Jan Smits, Jan M. Smits
To what extent can differences in economic development among countries be explained by differing law and institutions. This volume takes stock of this debate and offers an integrated approach that not only takes into account the insights of economics, but also of comparative law and empirics.
Essays in International Law and Relations in Honour of Louise Arbour
Book | 1st edition 2019 | World | Fannie Lafontaine, François Larocque
This collection of essays addresses the most pressing contemporary issues in international law and relations. The authors are leading experts and renowned actors on the international stage or in national jurisdictions.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Jonathan Herring
This book sets out a human rights approach to domestic abuse. It argues that the European Convention on Human Rights provides a powerful framework upon which to build a strong legal response to the problem of domestic abuse.
The Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings
Book | 1st edition 2022 | World | Katarina Trimmings, Anatol Dutta, Costanza Honorati, Mirela Zupan
This book addresses the issue of mothers who, fleeing from domestic violence, take their children with them and thus become liable for international child abduction. It examines how protection measures can help the abducting mother in this context, with a special focus on the utility of Regulation 606/2013 on mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matters and Directive 2011/99/EU on the European Protection Order, which allow cross-border circulation of protection measures.
Essays in Law and Economics in honour of Roger Van den Bergh
Book | 1st edition 2018 | United Kingdom | Michael Faure, Louis Visscher, Wicher Schreuders
This Liber Amicorum brings together the contributions of 43 authors, in honour of Roger Van den Bergh. The contributions encompass many different topics, which reflects Roger's broad research interests. They are grouped together in four parts: Competition Law and Economics, Public Law and Economics, Private Law and Economics and Developments in Law and Economics. Many of the contributions contain links to Roger's work, as well as the authors' personal reflections on the importance of Roger for their work. This personal touch makes this Liber Amicorum, truly, a Friends Book for Roger.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Jean-Bernard Auby
L’ouvrage présente un panorama des questions majeures qui se posent dans les différents droits de la procédure administrative. The book gives an overview of the main issues encountered in the various national laws on administrative procedure.
Des contributions sur le rôle des droits de propriété pour la protection de l’environnement comme alternatives aux réglementations publiques. Papers on the role of property rights for environmental protection as an alternative to public regulations.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Bard Andreassen, Vo Khanh Vinh
This volume argues that normative and legal developments to regulate and govern the behaviour of transnational businesses represent a new frontier in the struggle for human rights.
The impact of the digital revolution and globalisation on competition law enforcement in Europe
Book | 1st edition 2018 | Europe | Damien Gerard, Bernd Meyring, Eric Morgan de Rivery
The digital revolution and the process of globalisation have transformed the way businesses compete in today’s world. How have competition law rules and enforcement practices reflected these transformations?
Optimizing Enforcement in Case of Environmental Violations
Book | 1st edition 2012 | Europe | Katarina Svatikova
This book examines the question why – from an economic perspective – society should enforce certain violations through criminal law, while others through private or administrative law.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Mitja Kovac, Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe
This edited volume addresses the importance, implications, practices, problems and the role of economic evidence in EU competition law. It includes contributions on the use of the economic approach in the application and enforcement of EU competition law in different EU countries, candidate member states and third countries.
Book | 1st edition 2011 | United Kingdom | Aalt Willem Heringa, Aalt Heringa, Bram Akkermans
This books pays attention to the developments in European law and the effects these have on legal education in general as well as in other fields. Drawing from their own experiences, the authors describe the current state of law, offer perspectives on future developments and explain how they translate these developments in the law school curriculum. All the contributions in this book have in common that each author seeks to better prepare students for a future in a more integrated Europe.
Book | 1st edition 2010 | Europe | Edward Lloyd-Cape, Zaza Namoradze, Roger Smith, Taru Spronken
Every year, millions of people across Europe – innocent and guilty - are arrested and detained by the police. Based on a three year research study, this book explores and compares access to effective defence in criminal proceedings across nine European jurisdictions that constitute examples of the three major legal traditions in Europe, inquisitorial, adversarial and post-state socialist: Belgium, England & Wales, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Turkey. It is essential reading for academics, researchers, students, defence lawyers and policy-makers in the area of criminal justice in Europe.
