Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Ken Oliphant
In recent decades, the liability of public authorities has been one of the main areas of development in tort law in Europe, with major reforms implemented or considered at a national level, and a steady stream of major court decisions. During the same period, ‘Member State liability’ has also been recognised in the law of the EU, and the interplay of principles of national and EU law – and additionally the ‘just satisfaction’ jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights – evidently warrants close attention.
L'ouvrage interroge sur les choix de sociétés qui impliquent les générations présentes et futures. Il permet d’appréhender les négociations climatiques sous l’angle des enjeux fondamentaux d’équité et de responsabilité.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Daniël Cuypers, Jogchum Vrielink
A carefully selected and rigourously peer reviewed set of papers from the ‘Equal is not Enough’ conference hosted at Antwerp University in February 2015.
Application of European standards for local public services in France and Croatia
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Stéphane de La Rosa, Didier Lhomme, Anamarija Musa
The papers contained in this book explore the content and the effects of the European legal provisions and standards on the local governance and public services in France and Croatia.
L'ouvrage traite de la Directive ‘secteurs classiques’. On peut l’appeler le droit commun du droit des marchés publics. Dans ce cadre, plusieurs thèmes ont été choisis, qui impliquent une modification par rapport à l’état actuel du droit.
Economics, Access, Law, and Regulations in Key Jurisdictions
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Tina Hunter
Concentrating solely on shale gas, this book is structured around five themes, namely an overview and introduction to shale gas activities, shale gas economics and energy security, access to shale gas resources, shale gas law and regulation, and the future of shale gas.
A Comparative Study of the International, EU, and Chinese Regulation of the Sustainability of Biofuels
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Taotao Yue
Biofuels are promoted as a type of renewable energy from biomass that replaces fossil fuels in transportation, in an attempt to achieve the three-fold objectives of energy security, rural development, and GHG emission reductions.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Brigitte Feuillet–Liger, Kristina Orfali, Geneviève Schamps
Biomedicine has generated many benefits but it can also bring its share of risks. How do different countries ensure the legal and/or ethical protection of their citizens in this context? This book analyzes the nature and scope of such a protection.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Miao He
As the world’s population grows and the demands for natural resources increase, protected areas are becoming more important, but also more threatened. On the one hand, conservation of protected areas can contribute to the safeguarding of human rights; on the other hand, neglecting human rights can be a trigger for the mismanagement and destruction of protected areas. How can an objective and systematic approach be used to balance human rights protection and the conservation of protected areas?
La Protection de personnes fuyant un conflit armé et d'autres situations de violence
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Matthew Happold, Maria Pichou
Issues relating to the reception of asylum seekers in the EU are increasingly controversial. The Luxembourg and Strasbourg courts have taken rather different approaches. This book seeks to examine the two regimes and their interactions.
The Allocation of Limited Rights by the Administration
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Paul Adriaanse, Frank van Ommeren, Willemien den Ouden, Johan Wolswinkel
Managing scarcity to serve the public interest is a classic government task. An important way to execute this task is by allocating individual rights that are only available in limited quantities, such as CO2 emission allowances, gambling licences, subsidies, radio frequencies, public contracts and parking permits.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Jean-Bernard Auby
L’ouvrage présente un panorama des questions majeures qui se posent dans les différents droits de la procédure administrative. The book gives an overview of the main issues encountered in the various national laws on administrative procedure.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Hannah Müller
This book examines the legal frameworks applying to offshore grid development under international law, European Union law and national law. It reveals that these legal frameworks have not been developed to facilitate such complex (cross-border) infrastructure.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Mehdi Piri Damagh
This book contains the latest update of international and regional instruments with respect to prevention and compensation of transboundary damage caused by pipelines.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Andrea Broderick
This book examines several aspects of the equality and non-discrimination norms in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
Book | 1st edition 2015 | Europe | Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, Ioannis Papageorgiou
Regional integration systems are becoming increasingly important. This book analyses how regional integration systems all over the world might be able to act as defenders or promoters of democracy, rule of law and the respect for human rights among their members.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Tobias Heldt
The book presents a proposal for a harmonised European liability regime and discusses possibilities to enhance the feasibility of such a reform. It calls for a stronger involvement of the public in the nuclear sector and emphasises the intrinsic link between effective safety regulation and liability and compensation mechanisms.
The 1951 Refugee Convention and International Humanitarian Law (paperback)
Book | 1st edition 2015 | World | Vanessa Holzer
This book determines the international meaning of the refugee definition in Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Refugee Convention as regards refugee protection claims related to situations of armed conflict in the country of origin.
