IP Policy for Innovation and Competition
Why does society allow, or even encourage, private appropriation of inventions? When do patents encourage competition, when do they hamper it? How should society design the compromise between the interest of the inventor and the interest of the users of patented inventions? How should the patent system adapt to new technological areas? These questions and many more are addressed by the authors in this groundbreaking analysis of the economics behind the European patent system.
Pages: 250
Publication date: February 2007
Price: 30.14 €
Series: European Studies in Private Law (2)
Since early 2000 the European institutions have politically prioritised the need for greater coherence and uniformity in European private law. Contract law in particular has remained centre stage.
This book engages with two ‘holy grails’ of modern contract scholarship – the appropriate design of EC contract rules and judicial treatment of preliminary, incomplete bargains. In so doing, the study reveals the weakness of existing soft law initiatives and framework codes in capturing the degree of specificity and complexity in the field. Instead, the case is made for a viable methodology of dispute avoidance aimed at re-conceptualising and re-orientating the harmonisation effort.
Price: 55.00 €
The Four Freedoms
This book focuses on the substantive law of the EU with regard to the free movement of goods, persons, services, and capital. An introductory chapter outlines the background to EU law in this sphere; the role of free trade theory, the development of economic integration until the present day, and the fundamental principles underpinning this development.
Pages: 643
Publication date: August 2007
Price: 41.51 €
The development of competition law in the EU can be explored through three interrelated perspectives: the extent to which controversies in economic thinking affect the design of the law; how changing political visions about the objectives of competition law have caused shifts in the interpretation of the rules; and the institution in charge of applying the rules. The economic and political debates on competition law show that it is a contested terrain, and the way courts and competition authorities apply the law reflects their responses to the objectives and economics of competition law.
Pages: 527
Publication date: August 2007
Price: 56.51 €
Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism explores the tensions that arise when culturally diverse democratic states pursue both justice for religious and cultural minorities and justice for women. Sarah Song provides a distinctive argument about the circumstances under which egalitarian justice requires special accommodations for cultural minorities while emphasizing the value of gender equality as an important limit on cultural accommodation.
Pages: 216
Publication date: 2007
Price: 25.00 €
The European Way
Recently, the role of courts has changed dramatically. Not only do courts now have to decide cases between parties, they also often have to choose between competing fundamental values. Judges may have to balance the potentially conflicting interests of human life and human dignity; freedom of speech and the right of privacy; or free trade and the protection of the environment. The courts may have to circumscribe freedom of religion, and decide when religious dress may be worn.
Pages:163
Publication date: 2007
Price: 21.23 €
Designed specifically for students, Blackstone's Statutes lead the market in providing a carefully selected, regularly updated, and well sourced collection of legislation for the core subjects and major options offered on the law syllabus.
Price: 28.30 €
Over the past years, academics have re-acquired a significant role in the European law-making process. A truly European legal research, based on various networks has developed.
This Lecture examines the discrepancy between, on the one hand, the rise of European and comparative law and, on the other hand, the limited means allocated to the supranational education of future jurists.
Price: 15.00 €
Text, Cases, and Materials
Written by two prominent experts in the field, the fourth edition of the market-leading EU Law: Text, Cases and Materials offers the reader an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the main fields of EU Law, both institutional and substantive. Through the distinctive mix of 50% text and 50% cases and materials, the fully revised and updated fourth edition addresses the significant recent developments in EU legislation, including four new chapters on topics of central importance.
Price: 60.38 €
Visualising law, as the authors are attempting to do in this book, gives the reader some idea of what the blueprint of the edifice of European Community law looks like. The book contains 240 EC law-related charts (primary, secondary and case law) dealing with the following issues: introduction to the subject, the development of European integration, competences of the EC, institutions, the making of secondary law, the nature of EC law, introduction to substantive law, the common market, competition law, social law, harmonisation and enforcement.
Firstly, the charts are intended as a learning tool for students as well as for practitioners endeavouring to brush up on their EU law skills. Indeed most people understand and memorise complex or abstract content more easily if they have some form of visual aid at their disposal. Secondly, these charts are intended as a presentation tool. Whether lecturing on EC law in a university, explaining an issue of EC law for a client, or making a presentation before the board of directors of a company, visual tools can be highly useful.
Christa Tobler is a professor at both the Universities of Leiden (the Netherlands) and of Basel (Switzerland), where she teaches EU law. In her research, she places a particular emphasis on the issues of legal equality and discrimination, both in economic and in social law.
Jacques Beglinger is an attorney-at-law practicing in Zurich (Switzerland). He received his legal training in Switzerland, France and the United States. His background is in industrial law with a specialisation in international commercial law including, in particular, the areas of technology, e-business and media.
Price: 28.00 €
Litigation, Mobilization and Governance (Themes in European Governance)
The European Court of Justice's activism is now widely accepted as transforming the Treaty of Rome into a 'supranational constitution' granting rights to individual citizens. Cichowski examines the consequences for civil society, courts and public policy reform, and for the construction of a system of European governance.
Published: March 8, 2007
Pages: 310
Price: 27.83 €
The Hogendorp Papers (7)
The book is aimed at examining the interface or interaction between European Union (EU) law and national law, in particular at assessing the delineation of competences between the EU and its member states regarding various policy areas. The book is intended not only to investigate the controversial aspects of the EU-national law relationship, but it should result into the presentation of recommendations for guiding the interface between EU and national rules in specific domains.
Published: June 2007
Pages: 389
Price: 79.00 €
This new annual guide to the Brussels legal community includes a comprehensive ‘who is who’ of lawyers and officials relevant to the legal function of the European Commission, the Parliament, the Council and European Court of Justice.
Pages: 376
Publication date: 2007
Price: 49.00 €
How can the law of the European Union be most effectively taught in the face of the EU's current upheavals? With this new book a team of specialists provide a comprehensive survey of EU law, placing it in its social, political and economic contexts. The book's innovative approach, coupled with a stimulating and accessible writing style, allows the student to engage fully with the material.
Published: May 2006
Pages: 1362
Price: 62.00 €
Seventeenth Edition
'All in all, if one had to recommend the purchase of a single, vital companion to anyone involved in the study of European Community Legislation, this would be the one!' - Dimitra Nassimpian, Student Law Review 2006
Publication date: 7 September 2006
768 pages
Price: 30.00 €
This best-selling dictionary is a comprehensive source of clear, jargon-free legal information. It focuses primarily on English law and provides a one-stop source of information for any of the many countries that base their legal system on English law. Over 4,000 entries define and explain the major terms, concepts, processes, and organization of the legal system.
Price: 18.82 €
A highly accessible account of European Union law. The clear and concise commentary and explanations are complemented by summaries of key cases to illustrate the points of law, creating a complete learning experience in one volume.
Price: 42.36 €
Absent, Anonymous and Vulnerable Witnesses
This book investigates the theory and practice of the Right to Confrontation, the right of an accused person to examine witnesses against him. The book tackles the crucial question of what values and interests should allow incursions into this fundamental right.
March 2006
276 pages
Price: 65.00 €
How does the Parliament of the United Kingdom hold ministers to account for their European policies? How does the EU principle of subsidiarity affect the relation between Westminster and the Scottish Parliament? How does Belgium accommodate its powerful regional assemblies into the European role of its federal parliament? What is the role of the Dutch parliament before and after the popular rejection of the Constitutional Treaty in the Netherlands? How does the parliament of Croatia view all these developments as it prepares for accession to the EU?
July 2006
132 pages
Price: 36.00 €
The Hogendorp Papers (3)
Is the concept of Direct Effect of EC Law out of date? Or does it need to be revamped as a keystone doctrine of EC Law? This was the central theme of the international conference organized in June 2001 at the University of Amsterdam by the Hogendorp Centre, the Amsterdam Law School, the Amsterdam Centre of International Law, the Europa Instituut and the Amsterdam Jean Monnet Platform. The conference brought together speakers from The United Kingdom, Belgium, France and The Netherlands, to address the topic not only from the perspective of EC law, but also from those of domestic constitutional law and public international law. Their contributions reflect the various dimensions of direct effect as a central doctrine of EC Law.
August 2002
320 pages
Price: 60.00 €
The Hogendorp Papers (4)
Ever since the Dassonville and Cassis de Dijon rulings, the ‘European’ rule of reason stands for the dilemma between EU norm imposition and requirements of general interest. It surfaces at various settings within EU law. The motto of the Union, ‘united in diversity’, reflects the balance between (European) unity and (national) diversity that has to be struck at almost every field of Union activity, with different results at each instance.
Price: 65.00 €
This new book seeks to analyse and discuss the European Commission’s recent use of arbitration clauses as a mechanism for the judicial monitoring of especially behavioural remedies in the context of EC merger control. As the discussions will show, despite the partially “pathological“ nature of some of those clauses, international arbitration appears to be an ideal tool to provide for the merging parties’ medium- to long-term compliance with the remedies they have undertaken in order to obtain clearance of their proposed merger from the Commission. The Commission has taken this opportunity to try to tailor international arbitral mechanisms to its specific needs in controlling the correct implementation by the merging parties of the remedies in question.
Price: 79.00 €
How tight is the legal straitjacket for environmental product regulation?
An examination of the impact of free trade rules on product regulation at the interface between national law, EU law and WTO law, as well as between WTO law and international environmental law.
Price: 40.00 €
Part I of 'EU Administrative Law' considers the ways in which the EU administers policy, the objective being to explicate, analyse and evaluate the modes of policy delivery, to assess the role of law therein and to draw conclusions about their relative efficacy. The approach is contextual and draws on different disciplines.
Published in 2006
888 pages
Price: 57.34 €
Second edition
On European competition law there are now several hundred judgments of the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance and decisions of the European Commission- a huge body of case-law whose sheer bulk can make it inconvenient to consult. The author, a legal specialist in the field, has condensed the case-law into one single volume.
University of Amsterdam.
Published: January 2007
390 pages
Price: 36.00 €
Second Edition
The European Court of Justice is a controversial institution. Its supporters see it as having played a central and positive role in shaping a polity which has given its Member States an unprecedented degree of peace, stability, and prosperity.
To its detractors, it has ignored the Treaties from which it derives its powers in order to pursue an agenda of its own about the political shape of Europe.
This book analyses the Court’s place in the institutional architecture of the European Union and its contribution to the constitutionalization of the Union and the development of the Union’s substantive law.
An Oxford University Press Publication
Published in 2006
699 pages
Price: 57.55 €
This concise book is mainly intended to be used as an introduction to the rules of private international law belonging to the legal system of the European Union, more specifically to its core, the law of the European Community.
Price: 32.00 €
The purpose of this book is to provide an easy access to and overview of the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Communities (ECJ) pertaining to private international law. The book contains edited extracts from all ECJ decisions of immediate private international law relevance made before 1 October, 2006.
November 2006, 331 pages
Price: 32.00 €
The pivotal aim of this book is to explain the creation, development and impact of the general principles of law in the European Union legal order.
October 2006, 480p
Price: 92.00 €
EC Law in Practice: A Case-Study Approach is a major, new work designed specifically for non-native English-speaking students and practitioners in order to develop and deepen their knowledge of EC law in another language. It aims at giving a good, practical-based understanding of how the law works in the broader European environment and provides a stimulating yet affordable text on EC law in English, through exposition of the case-law of the European Courts.
Price: 25.00 €
In the early summer of 2005, an international expert meeting was convened in The Hague to share and compare national experiences with conciliation and mediation as methods for resolving collective labour disputes. Both the European Union and the Council of Europe have committed themselves to promoting these methods, which aim to assist disputants in finding creative, negotiated solutions, preserving their long-standing relationships.
December 2006, 165 pages
Price: 38.00 €
Information and Consumer Choice in the Internal Market
Fair trading, that is to say the idea of a fair market-behavioural standard in the pre-contractual relationship between business and consumers, has played a fundamental role in EC law since the very beginning of the Community. After early attempts at horizontal harmonisation failed, a piecemeal legislative approach was adopted, and has resulted in an inharmonious coexistence of numerous sectoral Community measures concerning fair trading.
Price: 72.00 €
A History of the Unification of Law in France, Prussia, the Austrian Monarchy and the Netherlands
European codification of private law is talk of the day. The European Parliament favours it, the European Commission supports it and many legal scholars are already working on it. Why? This book addresses the forthcoming European codification from the perspective of previous codifications and their origin.
Published: November 2006
325 pages
Price: 68.00 €
The Functioning of the Internal Market and the Development of Horizontal and Flanking Policies
There are obvious tensions in the relationship between horizontal and flanking policies, such as environmental, consumer, public health and cultural policies, and the EC rules on free movement and competition.
February 2006, 463p
Price: 89.00 €
This book focuses on sentencing war crimes and crimes against humanity under the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Currently there appears to be no knowledge of how the sentencing process works for both categories of international crimes. How does one distinguish, for the purpose of imposing punishment of different degrees of severity, war crime offences from similar offences when committed as a crime against humanity?
Price: 52.00 €
Empirical Findings and Legal Appraisal
This book, the sixth in the series, is based on the findings of a research study on Access to Justice in Environmental Matters that the European Commission commissioned in 2002 in order to provide input on the preparation of a proposal for a Directive on access to justice. In particular, the book assesses recent developments and the current situation concerning NGO access to justice in environmental matters in certain member states, and in particular to obtain empirical data on the number of cases brought by environmental associations.
228 pages
Price: 62.00 €
The Paradox of a Babel “United in Diversity”
The EEC (1957) consisted of six Member States with a combined total of four official languages. By 2004 this organization had evolved into a European Union of twenty-five Member States with more than twenty official languages among them. This increase has presented numerous challenges to the EU’s internal linguistic regime. Some of these languages – English in particular – have been more equal than others, however, and languages such as Catalan and Welsh that lack nation-wide official status in any Member State have been overtly denied equal treatment.
Price: 49.00 €
The Legal Authority of a Union Act Requiring Domestic Law Making
The invalidation of the directive triggers interesting legal questions, most notably on how that affects the status of national implementation legislation.
Price: 79.00 €
Droit international et droits européens
Présentation par l'éditeur:
L'éclatement des textes de droit maritime rendait nécessaire la publication de cet ouvrage qui présente de façon ordonnée les différentes sources conventionnelles, légales et réglementaires en la matière.
Price: 69.00 €
La coopération judiciaire en matière pénale est l’une des composantes du 3e pilier de Traité sur l’Union européenne. Face à l’augmentation de la criminalité transfrontière, l’un des défis de l’UE est de garantir dans un proche avenir un espace de liberté, de sécurité et de justice. A l’aide des mécanisme communautaires, notamment par le biais de décisions-cadres, l’Union tend à un rapprochement, voire à une harmonisation des droits nationaux des Etats membres.
Price: 89.30 €
Numerous Security Council Resolutions, WTO Appellate Body rulings, Association Council Decisions, judgements of the ECrtHR have to be implemented by the EU Member States according to their constitutional provisions. However, the fact that the EU is often member of those IOs or has acquired certain competences means that also the EU is, within the limits of its competences, required to implement those decisions. In this way the legal characteristics of those decisions is modified in the sense that they obtain Community law features such as supremacy and direct effect.
June 2004
310 pages
Price: 45.00 €
The book provides a useful launchpad for further research and discussion on twelve topics of central importance to the Constitution and enlargement, at a time when the Union continues to extend its borders while at the same time deepening its integration efforts and seeking new means to do so.
Price: 65.00 €
A Comparative Analysis of EC and Member State Legislation
The last fifteen years ‘transparency’ has been one of the central themes in the European integration process. By providing more openness about its activities, the European Union tries to bring itself closer to its citizens. Transparency is considered as one of the main methods to relieve the ‘democratic deficit’. One way of increasing transparency is to grant citizens a right to access to information.
June 2005
129 pages
Price: 36.00 €
An excellent introduction to EU law for students new to the discipline and acting as an essential revision aid for the more experienced, this new edition has been fully revised and updated.
Price: 27.26 €
Rapport Schuman sur l’Europe
Cet ouvrage, réalisé sous la direction de Thierry Chopin et Michel Foucher, répond à un objectif simple : fournir annuellement une étude complète sur les principaux enjeux européens. 50 ans après la signature du Traité de Rome, qui douterait encore de l’extraordinaire importance, pour chacun d’entre nous, de la construction européenne?
Published 2007
Pages: 232
Price: 19.00 €
In the past decades, the protection of national and ethnic minorities and the enforcement of their rights were championed by several international organizations. A series of legally binding documents, political resolutions or "simple" recommandations were adopted in various frameworks. Without claming to be exhaustive, this compendium strives to present the most important documents and their relationship.
The collection covers minority rights related documents for the first time in three languages - English French and Hungarian
Price: 20.00 €
‘Europeanisation of Public Law’ is a study about the relation between European and national public law. Familiar EU doctrines on ‘procedural autonomy’, ‘direct effect’, ‘consistent interpretation’, ‘ex officio application of European law’ and ‘state liability’ are used as a starting point for examining the effects of these doctrines in the various Member States.
Published: June 2007
Pages: 418
Price: 95.00 €
This text describes and analyzes, with great clarity, these two key areas of EU law. It focuses on the internal and external dimensions of the law governing the operation of the single market, the creation and regulation of the single currency, the law governing the status of citizens and non-citizens in the context of the creation of an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, and the law of the social dimension and other flanking policies, such as environmental policy.
Pages: 515
Publication date: August 2007
Price: 45.24 €
On the publication of its first edition, this textbook was welcomed as the definitive study of treaty law written from the viewpoint of an experienced practitioner. As with the first, this edition aims to provide the student and practitioner with a full understanding of the law and updates existing information and refines previous arguments.
Price: 56.51 €
This book examines in detail the body of EU law relating to Justice and Home Affairs. In turn, it looks at the decision-making and judicial rules which the EU applies in these areas, then examines the extensive EU law on visas and border controls, regulation of legal migration, control of illegal migration, criminal law definitions, criminal procedure, and policing and customs.
Throughout the book, there is a focus on the tension between the objectives of controlling migration and fighting crime on the one hand and human rights and civil liberties principles on the other. This theme is one of the particularly important developments in this area which arose after the attacks of September 11, 2001. This unique overview and critique of the EU law on Justice and Home Affairs is a one-stop source for information and analysis on a highly topical area of increasing concern in international politics, and one which is bound to have increasing impact
Pages: 588
Publication Date : January 2008
Price: 63.11 €