Book | 1st edition 2021 | Belgium | Hervé Jacquemin
L’ouvrage analyse les enjeux posés par le numérique en droit et dans d’autres disciplines des sciences humaines. Les contributions ont trait aux questions importantes du moment, tels que l’IA, le big data, la confiance, l’eJustice, etc.
Europe is under attack. Populism and nationalism are rampant, the United Kingdom has left the European Union and public confidence in Europe is waning. How should it move forward? With that question, the author takes the reader behind the scenes, offering unique, personal insights and positive solutions to address these issues, whilst also encouraging readers to develop their own vision of Europe and its future.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | World | Laura Inigo Alvarez
Armed groups have played a predominant role in violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law committed in conflict settings. The aim of this book is to examine how the principles of international responsibility could be developed and adjusted to account for armed groups as collective entities.
Supporting vulnerable people and protecting water resources
Book | 1st edition 2019 | United Kingdom | Daphina Misiedjan
Towards a Sustainable Human Right to Water is a timely examination of a critical and time-sensitive subject in the field of human rights law. The book poses the critical question how the concept of sustainable development can contribute to the sustainable realisation of the human right to water for vulnerable people. It takes a three step approach in providing an answer to this fundamental question of our time.
Book | 1st edition 2010 | World | Desislava Stoitchkova
Seeking to address the problem of corporate involvement in grave human rights abuse, i.e. genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, this study explores the desirability and feasibility of subjecting business enterprises to regulation through international criminal 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.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | World | Dan Svantesson, Dariusz Kloza
'I think you are misunderstanding the perceived problem here, Mr President. No one is saying that you broke any laws. We are just saying it is a little bit weird that you did not have to.’ - John Oliver
The implementation of Article 5(a) CEDAW for the realisation of women's right to be free from gender-based violence in Jamaica
Book | 1st edition 2013 | United Kingdom | Ramona Biholar
Gender-based violence against women is a stubborn problem worldwide. This book explores the transformation of sex roles and gender stereotyping, and interrogates, in the specific context of Jamaica, the implementation of Article 5(a) CEDAW for a social and cultural transformation and the realisation of women’s right to be free from gender-based violence.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | World | Agata Fijalkowski, Raluca Grosescu
States that are in transition after a dictatorship or a violent conflict face formidable challenges concerning accountability for human rights violations. This edited collection considers criminal justice as a method of addressing state violence committed by non-democratic regimes. Its main objectives concern a fresh, contemporary, and critical analysis of transitional criminal justice as a concept and its related measures, beginning with the initiatives since the fall of the Communist regimes in Europe in 1989.
What lessons can we learn from history, and more importantly: how? Efficient transitional justice policy evaluation requires, inter alia, an historical dimension. Nevertheless, history as a profession remains somewhat absent in the multi-disciplinary field of transitional justice. The idea that we should learn lessons from history continues to create unease among most professional historians. This volume is a major contribution in the search for synergies between the agenda of historical research and the rapidly developing field of transitional justice.
Book | 1st edition 2023 | World | Lucia Elena Arantes Ferreira Bastos
This book offers a Transitional Justice framework in the Brazilian case by assessing the mechanisms associated with truth, memory, and justice, but also including a holistic approach covering the role of civil society, reparations for indigenous people, initiatives on gender, and complicit corporations.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Kolja Möller
Migration crisis, food crisis, economic crisis – the most alarming tendencies in our contemporary world are related to the transnational social question. But what role does transnational law play in this context: Does it exacerbate the asymmetries by shielding the rich and exploiting the poor? Or is the emerging regime of international social human rights a promising candidate for countering the crisis of world society?
A human rights perspective on the phenomenon of marital captivity
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Benedicta Deogratias
This book offers a human rights perspective of the phenomenon of marital captivity within Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Muslim communities in both secular and non-secular States.
Democratic Legitimacy Tried and Tested in Matters of Taxation
Book | 1st edition 2021 | World | Rik Smet
This book deals with the subject of treaty making in federations. First, a theoretical framework is developed, addressing the question of which level(s) of government should possess treaty making power. Second, the current legal framework is analyzed from three perspectives: international, European and comparative domestic. Third, the theory developed is put to the practical test and an assessment is made regarding the making of tax treaties in the most peculiar federation in this regard, namely Belgium.
Fundamental Aspects of Fact-finding and Evidence-taking in a Comparative Context
Book | 1st edition 2012 | United Kingdom | C.H. van Rhee, Alan Uzelac
In the pursuit of justice, truth always plays a prominent role. In most legal systems, elaborate rules on the taking of evidence try to guarantee that an accurate, factual basis is used for the application of the law. Such rules are the core of most methods of adjudication and they are the main theme of the present volume, which focuses specifically on the rules of evidence within the context of efficiency in civil proceedings.
Book | 1st edition 2018 | World | Rozen Noguellou, David Renders
The Uber phenomenon is the perfect case for a comparative law study: a global phenomenon, impacting almost every country. This book explains how various legal systems react and adapt to the disruption caused by the emergence of this new economic model.
Book | 3rd edition 2015 | Europe | Norbert Reich, Annette Nordhausen Scholes, Jeremy Scholes
This book provides a detailed analysis of the objectives, principles and methods of EU Internal Market law. It focuses on the substantive law of the Internal Market, the strongest, most developed and most original part of EU law.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Eduardo Pereira
This book focusses on key practical issues faced by oil and gas companies in different parts of the world in negotiating and implementing Joint Operating Agreements.
