This book deals with the current trend in investor-state arbitration, with a focus on the African continent.It looks more specifically at the new African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and discusses how it can reshape the investor-state dispute system on the continent.
Book | 3rd edition 2022 | World | Cecilia Medina Quiroga, Valeska David Contreras
This third edition of the American Convention of Human Rights provides a thorough review of the protection of crucial convention rights and their application by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The book offers an engaging discussion of human rights issues, both old and new, occurring in the Americas.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Wenqing Liao
This book analyses the theory of efficient breach in English sales law, European Union contract law and Chinese contract law. It analyses the framework of the efficient breach theory and reconsiders the implications of this theory.
Book | 1st edition 2019 | United Kingdom | Miquel Martin-Casals
This volume explores how differences between tort and contract affect the foundations of liability, the nature and amount of the compensation, the extent of liability and whether defences and limitation periods corresponding to the distinct causes of action give rise to substantially different outcomes.
Book | 1st edition 2012 | Europe | Frederic Eggermont
This book answers two questions: what is the relationship between the European Council and the other EU institutions and what are the various roles of the European Council in the EU decision-making process?
The Intersections between Society, Family, Faith and Culture
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg
The Child’s Interests in Conflict addresses the conflicting demands on children from minority groups or children born to parents of different cultural or faith backgrounds.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Caroline Cauffman, Jan Smits
In numerous fields of law, ranging from family law to company law, private actors increasingly set their own rules, revert to private enforcement of those rules and choose the applicable law.
Under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Omkar Sidhu
Inherent to and at the very core of the right to a fair criminal trial under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights is the concept of equality of arms (procedural equality) between the parties, the construct given detailed and innovative treatment in this book.
Organization, substantive criminal law, criminal procedure and sanctions
Book | 1st edition 2019 | United Kingdom | Piet van Kempen, Maartje Krabbe, Sven Brinkhoff
The criminal justice system of the Netherlands offers an introduction to our fascinating legal system from a criminal law angle. It is recommended to students taking an introductory course on Dutch criminal law or on comparative criminal law and is also an excellent starting point for foreign researchers who wish to explore the Dutch criminal law system.
Book | 1st edition 2023 | World | George Katrougalos, Bertrand Mathieu
This book brings together specialists from more than 20 countries and focuses on the institutional, political, economic and social factors which determine the crisis of liberal democracies.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Esther van Schagen
Using insights from multilevel governance and pluralism, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the development of European private law in the Dutch and German legal order. It focuses on the question whether the coexistence of national and European state and non-state actors is detrimental or beneficial for the predictability, consistency, accessibility and responsiveness of European private law.
Between Uniformity and Legal Pluralism in the Inter-American Human Rights System
Book | 1st edition 2018 | United Kingdom | Pablo González-Domínguez
This book studies the doctrine of conventionality control in the Inter-American Human Rights System. It appeals to the principle of subsidiarity as a theoretical key to solve some of the inherent tensions of a doctrine that aims to increase the effectiveness of the American Convention on Human Rights and the decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in a plurality of constitutional systems and traditions in the region.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | United Kingdom | Jasper Krommendijk
The number of international human rights treaties and monitoring mechanisms has grown considerably over the past decades. States are increasingly confronted with criticism as to their domestic human rights record. What is the effect of all these treaties, monitoring and criticism? Do they lead to changes and improvements?
Book | 1st edition 2013 | Europe | Ignace Claeys, Régine Feltkamp
With the 186 articles of the Common European Sales Law the European Commission proposes an optional legal framework that covers the entire lifecycle of sales contracts and contracts for the supply of digital content, as well as related services. This book is the first to delve deeply into the content of the CESL and to analyse it.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | Europe | Carlos Botelho Moniz, Pedro de Gouveia e Melo
This book addresses the economic and financial crisis and the response that was given by the EU at three distinct levels. L'ouvrage concerne la crise économique et financière et la réponse donnée par l'UE à 3 niveaux distincts.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Max Gaber
Risk taking in business contributes towards innovation while excessive risk taking is associated with corporate failure. This book illustrates how insurance against personal liability of the manager threatens – but also benefits – society and the economy
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Sandrine Maljean-Dubois
The central topic of this book is the effectiveness of environmental law. It offers a fruitful and stimulating dialogue between practitioners and academics, from varied countries and varied fields, combining empirical and theoretical approaches to the topic.
This edited volume ascertains the added value of international criminal tribunals in fighting impunity for crimes against international law and fostering political reconciliation in affected States. It aims to identify best practices which may inform the choice between the establishment of international criminal tribunals and recourse to other mechanisms, and which may render existing or future tribunals more effective institutions.
This book examines the case law of the European Court of Justice concerning the requirement to interpret national law in conformity with EU law directives. It offers an in-depth analysis of the application of this obligation in three Member States: Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands. The key question underlying this examination is to what extent the established theories of supremacy of EU law, national constitutionalism and constitutional pluralism adequately explain the relationship between EU and national law under the duty of consistent interpretation.
