Extradition Law and practice

concept and famous cases

The subject of "international extradition" is not independently taught in legal education programs around the world, yet extradition remains today the most significant form of mutual assistance in criminal matters between States. This book provides a concise and clear description of extradition law and procedure ...

Concise introduction to EU Private International Law

The fourth edition of 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. It provides legal practitioners with an overview of this highly complex field of ...

The Law and policy of international trade in electricity

The book examines the legal guarantees provided under the European Union (EU) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules for the development of electricity transmission systems, either by constructing new transmission lines or by increasing transmission capacity. In the context of an analysis of trade ...

The impact of the mortgage credit directive in Europe

contrasting views from member States

How has European Private Law responded to the property and mortgage markets crisis? And in what way is this reaction likely to model domestic systems? The financial and economic crisis that has marked the beginning of the century has had a devastating effect on the ...

Environmental protection by the Black Sea Commission

About the book Since the 1970s, the Black Sea has been suffering a severe pollution from excessive input of nutrients and chemicals. To improve the situation, the Convention on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution (Bucharest Convention) was signed in 1992 and the ...

The making of a new european legal culture

the Aarhus Convention

The Aarhus Convention entered into force more than 20 years ago. It lays down the pillars of environmental democracy, that is a governance systems where citizens and civil society organisations are fully involved in the decisions affecting the environment we all live in. On the ...

The model rules on EU administrative procedures

adjudication

In various European countries, debates on the transformation of administrative law are held from a national perspective and with different intensity. Given the considerable effects such a discussion may have on the methods of administrative legal scholarship, an analysis of these developments in a European ...

Property and environmental in Europe

magine a factory that pollutes the air. If the government closes it down, can the operator allege undue encroachment on his property? If the government remains inactive, can the neighboring farmer demand that his/her property must be protected? These two questions point to two ...

Introduction to global food-safety Law and regulation

The subject of global food safety law and regulation is new, evolving, and still not definitive. On one side, it concerns a particular specific sector that, despite being connected to several issues and social interests, still presents its own specific and original features, as a ...

EU language Law

EU Language Law gives a comprehensive account of all language regulations and arrangements which currently exist in EU law. First and foremost, it covers the various explicit and implicit language regimes of EU institutions, bodies and agencies, explaining how and why they came about. It ...

The public administration of the internal market

This book is borne out of the observation of a certain gap in the legal literature on the European internal market, which has traditionally focused on substantive issues – such as the content and the scope of the rules on free movement, including adjacent policies such ...

Environmental democracy and Law

Environmental democracy has several roots and reasons, also theoretical foundations, which must be taken as a starting point of research. One interpretation of environmental democracy could be that it is a visualization of the procedural rights, one of the best options to make environmental rights ...

Selected national, european and international Provisions from public and private Law

This volume, The Maastricht Collection, is based on the Maastricht Law Faculty’s expertise in teaching European, international and comparative law. The Maastricht Collection comprises a selection of legal instruments and provisions which have proven to be particularly relevant and useful to students and practitioners ...

The protection of property rights in comparative perspective

a study on the interaction between european human rights Law and italian and french property Law

The book offers a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the issue of property rights protection in Europe. This approach explores the tensions between the European and the national level. This is done by highlighting the different understanding of the constitutional role of property within different ...

Administrative Law in Europe

between common principles and national traditions

n the various European countries, debates on the ransformation of administrative law are held from a national perspective and with different intensity. Given the considerable effects such discussion may have on the methods of administrative legal scholarship, an analysis of these developments in a European ...

National courts and EU environmental Law

Direct effect, consistent interpretation and state liability are instruments developed by the CJEU for national courts to remedy conflicts between national and EU law (and may also be used in some jurisdictions to resolve national law and international law). This book will look at the ...

European Court of Justice legal reasoning in context

The task of the European Court of Justice is to ensure that the law is observed in interpreting and applying treaties. This duty is carried out in a transnational constitutional environment where interpretation and application are, to a large extent, divorced from each other. An ...

Proportionality analysis and models of judicial review

a theoretical and comparative study

Proportionality analysis describes a particular legal technique of resolving conflicts between human rights or constitutional rights and public interests through a process of balancing. However, as a general tendency, the current vivid academic debate on proportionality pays insufficient attention to the institutional context - the question ...

Concise introduction to comparative Law

In today's globalized world, jurists cannot limit themselves to studying the laws of their own country. This book is mainly intended to be used as a textbook for beginners taking introductory courses on foreign and comparative law. Its concise format makes it fit for ...

The right to confrontation in Europe

absent, anonymous and vulnerable witnesses

This book - now in its second edition - investigates the theory and practice of the Right to Confrontation: the right of accused persons to examine witnesses against them. Although exceptions to confrontation have always been recognized by domestic criminal courts, no European consensus exists on the ...