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This book engages with the use of sanctions by and against international organizations from the perspective of international and European Union law. It explores the rationale, legal status and implications of sanctions, untangling the complex relationship between international organizations, member States and non-member States.

The rule of law is one of the most important topics discussed both in the legal community and in wider society. This book presents dozens of reports on the situation in various European and non-European legal systems. It answers questions about the conditions for ensuring the rule of law and about the risks and challenges faced by the democratic state of law today.

On 7 December 2022, the European Commission published a Proposal for a private international law Regulation on parenthood. In the book, the Marburg Group—a group of German private international law scholars—undertakes the first extensive and in-depth assessment of the Parenthood Proposal. While the Group welcomes the initiative of the Commission and embraces the overall structure of the Parenthood Proposal, it suggests several fundamental changes.

The Law and Bioethics of End-of-Life Decisions addresses the legal, ethical and philosophical issues surrounding end-of-life decisions, including assisted dying, palliative care and withdrawal of treatment. 

The seventy-third volume of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains the most important decisions taken by the ICC from 8 March 2018 - 8 June 2018. It provides the reader with the full text of the decisions identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented on these decisions.

Good administration of justice is the keystone of justice as a public service and a guiding principle in the interface between justice systems and citizens. It makes the former accountable to the latter for qualitative and timely justice, which are essential to upholding the rule of law value common to the EU Member States. The second judges@europe forum explores those concepts from three different angles, each of which raises topical issues in the European legal space: accountability through liability (in particular disciplinary and criminal); accountability through performance and performance control and; accountability through transparency.

Child relocation presents a challenge to family lawyers, with its cross-border dimension raising unique questions in the legal context of the European Union. This book examines the European legal frameworks of child relocation and discusses the dynamics of Europeanisation of national child relocation law.

The Right to Identity and Access to Information on Genetic Origin and Parentage discusses recent developments on the right to know one’s genetic origins in the context of donor conception. It includes both legal analyses and findings from psychological research, delving not only into the theoretical framework, but, additionally, assessing the practices of counselling and DNA databases.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of why the original Judgments Project of the Hague Conference on Private International Law failed in 2001. Through examining the significant weaknesses in the management and preparation of the negotiations which contributed substantially to the lack of success in adopting a convention text at a Diplomatic Session, the books sets out the lessons that can be drawn from the premature end of the project.

This book explores the impact of uncertainties and the interplay between environmental law and science.

The book provides an in-depth discussion of Council Regulation No 2019/1111 (‘Brussels II-ter’) (in force from August 2022), which lays down rules on jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement which EU Member States must apply when dealing with matrimonial matters, matters of parental responsibility and child abduction. 

The seventy-first volume of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains the most important decisions taken by the ICC from 7 April 2015 - 28 April 2017. It provides the reader with the full text of the decisions identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented on these decisions.

The seventy-second volume of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains the most important decisions taken by the ICC from 1 May 2017 – 8 March 2018. It provides the reader with the full text of the decisions identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented on these decisions.

Filling a gap in the legal literature, this book is aimed at studying national human rights institutions from an international and comparative standpoint, contrasting the experiences and practices in Europe and Latin America.

Over the past two decades, various jurisdictions around the world have created new specialised domestic courts to manage international commercial disputes. This book studies these new international commercial courts from a comparative perspective and examines their role in cross-border litigation.

What constitutes a “family” in Europe? The answer to this question is constantly changing and increasingly varied. This book addresses areas of family law where developments have been particularly salient and have, at times, created fissures between European States. It also suggests ways of addressing and overcoming these divergences.

Trente ans après sa consécration, le statut de citoyen européen a-t-il tenu ses promesses ? À visée académique, l’ouvrage procède à une analyse critique des acquis, des évolutions et des enjeux actuels de la citoyenneté de l’Union européenne.