Within the European Union the dynamic development of the external side of justice and home affairs raises challenging issues: friction over the division of competences between the Union and its Member States and between EU institutions; cross-pillar coordination issues; legal and political tensions due to ‘variable geometry’ with numerous ‘opt-ins’ and ‘opt-outs’. In addition, international cooperation brings its own problems: how to explain the internal issues to international partners? How to allow them to become comfortable with an ever more assertive EU role? How to support global governance structures while preserving European standards on the rule of law and the protection of human rights? This book gives an excellent overview over the many current topics in the sensitive areas of immigration and asylum, private international law and international criminal law and procedure. It is warmly recommended to anybody who wants to broaden his or her understanding of the increasing importance of the external side of European policies on Justice, Liberty and Security.
Pages - 524
Price: 48.00 €
This volume captures the changing nature of politics both within and beyond the state as a result of processes of globalization and regional integration. The analysis of ‘Politics Beyond the State’ clarifies that the central state continues to guide our understanding of politics but that it needs to be complemented with ample attention to both the sub- and the supranational tiers of government.
Pages - 295
Price: 36.00 €
In this book, researchers and scientists from thirteen different countries of the enlarged Europe plus Turkey have joined forces to offer us their insights into the development of the Information Society in their respective countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia and Turkey. These experts offer us their analyses of these developments as they occurred during the first five years of the new millennium. Their analyses encompass the issues of technological absorption, of economic growth and of cohesion across the enlarged European Union.
Pages - 451
Price: 34.95 €
Sustainable development has become a central objective in national and international policy of development and the environment. Increasingly it also marks international and national law. In this book scholars in environmental law treat legal theories on sustainable development and how it may be operationalized, and topics related to its development in international law, European law, international trade and investment law, and within the climate regime.
The book marks the 20th anniversary of the 1987 report of the “Brundtland Commission” which brought the concept of sustainable development to the forefront of the international agenda.
About the editors:
Hans Christian Bugge, dr. juris, is professor of environmental law at the University of Oslo. Christina Voigt, dr. juris, researches in international environmental law as a post doc. at the University of Oslo.
Pages: 591
Publication: May 2008
Price: 80.00 €
An interim outline edition of the (academic) Common Frame of Reference has been recently published. It is difficult to predict the political use to which the CFR will be put, although it was the European Commission who entrusted it to a research network of excellence. Nevertheless, it will certainly become the cornerstone of the new European private law. Two strong reasons support this statement. On the one hand, over one hundred of outstanding European scholars have been engaged to this project. On the other hand, the CFR has tackled extensively some intricate matters. For the first time the European legal community, and indeed the global legal community, has a body of authentically European provisions, suitable for adoption as national law or capable of inspiring amendments of national law. Maybe a European regulation of (some aspects of) sale or tort law could be anticipated, but a systematic body of rules on lease of movables, donation or transfer of movables was hardly foreseeable. This does not mean that the CFR casts aside other mechanisms of approximation of the European national laws, in particular spontaneous harmonization. A polyedric approach is still necessary to complete the Europeanization of private law.
This book brings together the papers presented at the 2007 conference on European private law organised by the University of Lleida on the occasion of the conferral of a doctorate honoris causa upon Reinhard Zimmermann. Professor Zimmerman’s acceptance speech is followed by contributions intended to attest to Reinhard Zimmermann as motivator of the scientific quest that has inspired the development of the new ius commune europaeum. The other papers deal with various substantive aspects of the Draft of the Common Frame of Reference prepared by the Study Group and the Acquis Group on behalf of the European Commission.
About the editor:
Antoni Vaquer is Professor of Private Law at the University of Lleida.
Pages: 217
Publication: May 2008
Price: 49.00 €