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Participatory Democracy, Civil Society and Social Europe
A Legal and Political PerspectiveBook | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Gautier BusschaertWhereas participatory democracy was traditionally meant to further the maximum participation of citizens in political life, the EU supports a modern version of the participatory ideal where citizens are represented by a selfdesignated elite of civil society experts. This book takes a critical stance on that technocratic form of government. At the same time, it examines whether there are realistic ways for a bureaucratic organization like the EU to involve a truly civil society of active citizens in governance.€90.00 incl. VAT -
Party Autonomy in EU Private International Law
Choice of Court and Choice of Law in Family Matters and SuccessionBook | 1st edition 2021 | World | Jacqueline GrayThis book is a comprehensive analysis of the choice of court and choice of law provisions that apply to cross-border family matters and succession in EU private international law.€118.00 incl. VAT -
Patents as Protection of Traditional Medical Knowledge?
A Law and Economics AnalysisBook | 1st edition 2012 | United Kingdom | Petra EbermannThe protection of the knowledge and practises of local and indigenous groups has been discussed in various forums in recent times. International agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity address the importance of protecting traditional knowledge and practises, This book examines traditional knowledge protection in the area of traditional medical knowledge, often utilised in contemporary medicine, and consequently subject to patent protection. It provides a comparative view of the current patent regimes in major economies, specifically the US and the EU, and the consequences of the application of these laws to traditional medical knowledge and follow-on innovation, as well as the impact on underlying economic principles and opposing interests.€71.00 incl. VAT -
Patrimoine architectural, sites et paysages saisis par le droit de l'urbanisme / Architecturical …
Book | 1st edition 2018 | World | Judith Gifreu Font, Jacqueline Morand-DevillerThis book intends to address the instruments and techniques of heritage protection and its formulas in Spain and other countries, in order to obtain an adequate comparative vision.€187.00 incl. VAT -
Perspectives for the Unification and Harmonisation of Family law in Europe
Book | 1st edition 2003 | Europe | Katharina Boele-WoelkiIs the unification and harmonisation of (international) family law in Europe necessary? Is it feasible, desirable and possible? Reading the different contributions to this book may certainly inspire those who would like to find the right answers to these questions.€110.00 incl. VAT -
Plurality and Diversity in Law: Family Forms and Family's Functions
Book | 1st edition 2023 | United Kingdom | Jacqueline Heaton, Aida KemelmajerThis book presents comparative perspectives based on findings presented in National Reports on the theme 'Plurality and Diversity in Law: Family Forms and Family's Functions'. The contributions focus on whether, and if so, how, family law recognises that a child can have multiple parents, and which family functions are recognised and favoured by the law.€166.00 incl. VAT -
Plurality and Diversity in Law: The Human Rights Paradigm
Book | 1st edition 2023 | United Kingdom | Laurence Burgorgue-LarsenThis book provides an understanding of how States around the world, whether in the Global North or the Global South, deal with and organize the religious, ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity within them and how, in the same vein, they deal with the plurality of opinions and legal systems.€215.00 incl. VAT -
Plurality and Diversity of Family Relations in Europe
Book | 1st edition 2019 | United Kingdom | Katharina Boele-Woelki, Dieter MartinyThis volume contains the contributions delivered at CEFL's sixth international conference, which focused on comparative and international family law in Europe in their respective cultural contexts.€99.00 incl. VAT -
Policy Instruments in International Wildlife Law
The legal framework for large carnivore conservation in southern AfricaBook | 1st edition 2025 | United Kingdom, Europe | Elke HellinxThis book offers a first step towards a remedy by zooming in on policy instruments within international wildlife law. More specifically, it makes an in-depth study of policy instruments for large carnivore conservation in southern Africa.
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Populist Constitutionalism and Illiberal Democracies
Between Constitutional Imagination, Normative Entrenchment and Political RealityBook | 1st edition 2021 | United Kingdom | Martin BelovThis book examines the rise of populist constitutionalism and the main trends that have led to the current, ongoing crises in liberal democracy. Combining theoretical contributions, comparative typologies and important case studies, the spread of populism and illiberal democracy in Europe is critically explored.€118.00 incl. VAT -
Posting of Workers and Collective Labour Law: There and Back Again
Between internal market and fundamental rightsBook | 1st edition 2015 | Europe | Marco RoccaThis volume deals with the complicated relationship between posting of workers in the EU and collective labour law. It does so from a legal perspective but the author does not refrain from looking at the economic and social context in order to better understand the legal construction of said relationship.€101.00 incl. VAT -
Practical Handbook on European Financial Passports
Guidance FactsheetsBook | 1st edition 2019 | Europe | Ronan Le BoucThe book gives a holistic view of the various European financial passports as well as the development of the concept of financial passport outside of the E.U.€100.00 incl. VAT -
Pre-trial detention
Human rights, criminal procedural law and penitentiary law, comparative lawBook | 1st edition 2012 | United Kingdom | Piet van Kempen, Piet Hein van KempenAlthough no adequately functioning criminal justice system can presently do entirely without detaining any suspects, pre-trial detention remains problematic in the context of human rights, the detainee’s family and society. This volume offers a wide variety of topics that are relevant to pre-trial detention: developments that affect the application of pre-trial detention; relevant international and national human rights standards as well as monitoring systems; pre-trial detention of specific groups, and alternatives to pre-trial detention.€174.00 incl. VAT -
Preliminary References to the Court of Justice of the EU and Effective Judicial Protection
Book | 1st edition 2020 | Europe | Clelia LacchiThe book focuses on the collaboration between the Court of Justice of the EU and the national judges for the protection of the rights that individuals derive from EU law. It deals with the question of access to justice for individuals in the EU.€113.00 incl. VAT -
Premature Obsolescence
In Search of an Improved Legal FrameworkBook | 1st edition 2023 | Europe | Anaïs MichelPremature obsolescence means that products do not last as long as they should or could. This book addresses the central question how EU and national legal rules currently tackle premature obsolescence and how the legal framework could be improved.€167.00 incl. VAT -
Prescription in Tort Law
Analytical and Comparative PerspectivesBook | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Israel Gilead, Bjarte AskelandPrescription is a major legal defence that bars civil actions after the expiry of the prescription period on the claim. This book thoroughly examines the law of 16 selected jurisdictions and extensively analyses in comparative perspective the elements of prescription, their interrelations, and the policy considerations (including economic analysis). While the book focuses on prescription of tort claims the analysis, comparisons and conclusions are most pertinent to most civil actions.€150.00 incl. VAT -
Preventing Corruption and Promoting good Government and Public Integrity
Book | 1st edition 2017 | Europe | Agustí Cerrillo i Martínez, Juli PonceThe book highlights the possibilities and the limits of Administrative law to improve the fight against corruption and to promote good government and public integrity.€92.00 incl. VAT -
Preventing Medical Malpractice and Compensating Victimised Patients in China
A Law and Economics PerspectiveBook | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Xiaowei YuPreventing Medical Malpractice and Compensating Victimised Patients in China is the first book in English on the legal remedies for preventing medical errors and compensating victims of medical malpractice in China from an economic and legal perspective.€180.00 incl. VAT -
Prevention and Compensation for Transboundary Damage relating to Cross-border Oil and Gas Pipelines
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Mehdi Piri DamaghThis book contains the latest update of international and regional instruments with respect to prevention and compensation of transboundary damage caused by pipelines.€179.00 incl. VAT -
Prevention of reoffending
The value of rehabilitation and the management of high risk offendersBook | 1st edition 2014 | United Kingdom | Piet van Kempen, Warren YoungThe need to prevent convicted prisoners and other offenders from reoffending constitutes a major challenge for both criminal justice and penitentiary systems. This volume therefore first of all focuses on the value of restoring offenders to a useful life from the perspective of prisoners, their family, society, the tax-payer, prison staff and administration and victims, as well as from a criminological viewpoint.€118.00 incl. VAT