European, American and Chinese perspectives on mediation
This book is an introduction to the current and prospective European mediation practice after the recent issuing of the new Mediation Directive.
Price: 32.00 €
This study argues that corporations have normative obligations in relation to fundamental human rights.
While corporate activities may positively contribute to the livelihoods of individuals, communities and societies, a number of allegations have been made that corporations have been involved in systematically violating human rights.
As there is an urgent need for practical and victim-oriented solutions in the modern world in the area of human rights and business, this study argues that corporations have normative obligations in relation to fundamental human rights, around which there possibly appears to exist a value consensus across different cultures and societies around the world.
Price: 60.00 €
This study examines the international legal principles for effective EEZ fisheries management
As fish stocks continue to decline worldwide, coastal states seem to have largely failed in managing fisheries in their EEZs effectively. This study examines the international legal principles for effective EEZ fisheries management, and undertakes to assess their domestic implementation in a comparative perspective.
Pages: 160
Price: 40.00 €
A selection of papers for researchers dealing with any aspect of European administrative law
A selection of conference papers on the mutual (top-down and bottom-up) relation of EU administrative law and national administrative law.
Publication date: January 2010
Pages: 173
Price: 49.00 €
The standard of review applied by national courts in the area of competition law and economic regulation.
This book deals from a comparative perspective with the question of the impact of European law, especially the Tetra Laval case-law, on the standard of review applied by national courts in the area of competition law and economic regulation.
Publication date: September 2009
305 pages
Price: 75.00 €
A book about jurisdictional competition
Jurisdictional competition is a relatively new but increasingly important phenomenon in European and international law.
The selected cases examined in this book, which cover different areas of international and European law, illustrate the methods applied by various international courts and tribunals to deal with overlapping jurisdictions.
Publication date: October 2009
109 pages
Price: 30.00 €
A book about the silent revolution brought by the EFTA Court
The main contribution of the book is to describe how the EFTA Court has managed, in its fifteen years of existence.
The book summarizes and explain the basic principles governing the relationship between EEA law and the national legal systems while searching for similarities and differences with EC law.
Publication date: September 2009
341 pages
Price: 42.00 €
Some 40 years after van Gend en Loos, the impact of European law on the administrative laws of the Member States of the European Union has manifested itself intensely and in many different aspects, because of the influence of both the European Court of Justice and EC legislation. This impact is particularly striking in relation to administrative law, because, as a part of public law, administrative law had long been deemed an area of monopoly of the State and a clear outgrowth of the State sovereign powers that precluded interference from any other jurisdiction.
Price: 68.00 €
The main objective of the book is to give an analysis of relevant parts of the European Union legal order with regard to some envisaged cardinal changes in the field of acquis communautaire, which are linked directly to the constitutional development at supranational level.
The significance of the issues of EU constitutionalism is enduring and cannot be reduced merely to the process of formal creation of a Constitution for Europe.
June 2008, 238p
Price: 45.00 €
This volume contains a selection of important constitutional and legislative provisions from the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, as well as selected provisions from the European Convention on Human Rights.
It will help students and scholars of comparative constitutional law to work with foreign written sources. All provisions are reproduced in the original English or are freshly translated into English.
Price: 12.50 €
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 €
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 €
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 €
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 €
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 €
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 €
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 €
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 €
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 €
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 €
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 €
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 €
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 €
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 €
The latest development of the role of the judges in the international legal order
The process of fragmentation of the international legal order and the absence of constitutional devices governing the connections between the various legal regimes can be reduced to a rational picture only through the activity of the judges.
Publication date: November 2009
Pages: 433
Price: 68.00 €
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 €
Contains 278 EU law-related charts (primary, secondary and case law)
This book is a learning tool for students as well as for practitioners endeavouring to brush up on their EU law skills, especially in view of the Lisbon Treaty revision and the fundamental changes that it brings about in the EU legal system.
Pages: 364
Price: 30.00 €
Companion text for the revised, “Lisbon edition” of “Essential EU Law in Charts”
This book is a companion text for the revised, “Lisbon edition” of “Essential EU Law in Charts”.
Together with the charts, the book is intended as a learning tool for students as well as for practitioners endeavouring to brush up on their EU law skills, especially in view of the Lisbon revision and the fundamental changes that it brought about in the EU legal system.
Pages: 124
Price: 15.00 €
NEW! Combined package: Essential EU Law in Charts and Text + in Text
The combined package include Essential EU Law in Charts + Essential EU Law in Text
The books are intended as a learning tool for students as well as for practitioners endeavouring to brush up on their EU law skills, especially in view of the Lisbon revision and the fundamental changes that it brought about in the EU legal system.
Price: 45.00 €
Nature and prevalence of the problem and the effectiveness of anti-stalking measures
This book presents a research on the nature and prevalence of stalking in the Netherlands and on the effectiveness and (dis)advantages of certain legal anti-stalking measures, both criminal and civil.
Price: 49.50 €
All texts in this third edition are in conformity with the new Treaty of Lisbon
The EU Competition Rules; Landmark Cases of the EU Courts and the European Commission (third edition) aims at providing the Legal Masters student throughout Europe’s universities with a thorough selection of case law that would be of direct help when studying the subject for the first time.
Price: 38.00 €
The book collects the proceeding of an international conference at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa
Do national judges start treating the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights the same way they treat the EC law’s norms? In order to answer this question the editors (Giuseppe Martinico and Oreste Pollicino) involved scholars from the countries that are members both of the EU and the Council of Europe.
Price: 75.00 €