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The ACCA is an annual scientific event which aims at gathering researchers from all Belgian Law Schools. The topic of the 2015 Conference was “Human Rights as a Basis for Reevaluating and Reconstructing the Law”.

This book critically and comprehensively engages with the European Court of Human Rights’ positive obligations case law.

This book zooms in on various aspects of the interaction between courts in the complex European system of human rights protection. Where courts are faced with a human rights claim, they not only have to examine the validity of that claim, but also need to have a clear understanding of the human rights catalogue that is to be applied, i.e. human rights as guaranteed by the national constitution, human rights as protected under EU law, based or not on the Charter, and human rights as identified in the European Convention of Human Rights.

'Human Rights Tectonics' is a collaborative effort of internationally renowned human rights experts to analyse the effectiveness of legal protection in a highly fragmented and multi-layered human rights system.

Liber amicorum Paul Lemmens: With this tribute book we have tried to avoid the classic pitfalls. The work contains contributions that are focused on human rights, in all their diversity, but with a strong emphasis on the European Convention on Human Rights. The contributions were also subjected to a stringent peer review, so that this book could just as well be a classically edited academic work. It therefore meets, we hope, the highest academic standards, as Paul Lemmens has always embodied them. The very international crowd of authors, whose reputation is known, already guarantees quality.

This book brings together a group of renowned contract lawyers to analyse how their own legal systems deal with twelve cases of morally dubious agreements. It explores questions of validity, enforceability and the availability of remedies, while offering crucial insights into the divergences and converges between different European legal systems.

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 European Convention on Human Rights has great impact on national law, in particular through the case-law of the European Court of Human Right. Over the past few years, however, critical voices have been raised to question the degree of the Court’s influence on national law and politics.

This book presents a rich and detailed analysis of the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It combines individual contributions that address the experience of legal incorporation in countries around the world, written by individual country experts, with comparative analysis of the international landscape from the world’s leading authorities on children’s rights incorporation.

The principles of independence and impartiality are fundamental to the proper administration of justice. This book examines how these principles are implemented in a variety of settings: in national courts of selected jurisdictions, international courts and international arbitration.

Introduced into European Community law by the Court of Justice through its case law in the field of free movement of workers, the legal concept of indirect discrimination has evolved into one with far wider and greater relevance to many other areas of EC law as well. This book analyses the concept of indirect discrimination in a broad and comparative context, which encompasses both economic and social law.

The second edition of this volume contains an overview and discussion of the historical and normative processes (legal and political) that culminated in the adoption of the Kampala Resolution on the Crime of Aggression (2010).

Technological and economical developments require contracting parties to be informed and advised. This book analyses several aspects of these information and notification duties.

How to choose the most beneficial enforcement regime for cross-border claims of a client? A question considerably complicated by (1) the existence of various European Union enforcement tools and (2) particularities in the national legal systems that impact on the operation and suitability of the various enforcement tools. This book compares and analyses the practical utility and potential pitfalls of the 2nd generation regulations (European Enforcement Order, European Order for Payment, European Small Claims Procedure and European Account Preservation Order) and their relation to Brussels Ibis. The work is based on an extensive evaluation of case law (published and unpublished), empirical data and literature from eight Member States (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain) and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

L’innovation est un défi mais présente également une énorme opportunité pour les avocats. L'ouvrage analyse ses conséquences sur le plan européen au niveau de la Justice, des cabinets d’avocats, des services rendus et des organisations professionnelles.

This empirical study focuses on three procedural rights – the right to interpretation and translation, the right to information and the letter of rights, and the right to legal assistance before and during police interrogation – in four EU jurisdictions – France, Scotland, the Netherlands and England and Wales.

This Training Framework is based on the empirical study of the procedural rights of suspects in England and Wales, France, the Netherlands and Scotland. Its objective is to enhance the knowledge, understanding and skills of criminal justice practitioners – police officers and defence lawyers – in respect of the procedural rights of suspects in police detention.

Preventing and combating favoritism, conflicts of interest, corruption and collusion by enhancing transparency and accountability have become vital objectives. The analysis of problems and identification of possible solutions are the goal of this book.

This book analyzes the extent of intellectual property in Luxembourg, provides the best practices to be put in place by companies or government services and discusses important accounting issues.

Tout en permettant d’initier le lecteur à des domaines d’application variés et novateurs, cet ouvrage apporte des réflexions prospectives sur les évolutions attendues ou souhaitées.