From Rome to Nice in a wheelchair

the development of a european disability policy

This inaugural lecture gives an overview of the steps that have been taken by the European Union to develop a policy relating to disability and disabled people since its foundation. Initiatives in the period prior to the adoption of the Amsterdam Treaty were characterised by ...

The politics of european codification

a history of the unification of Law in France, Prussia, the Habsburg Empire 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 ...

Effective resolution of collective labour disputes

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 ...

Fair trading in EC law

information and consumer choice in the internal market

The need for a european contract law

empirical and legal perspectives

The invalid directive

the legal authority of a union act requiring domestic law making

Mind the Gap

the evolving EU executive and the Constitution

Sentencing war crimes and crimes against humanity under the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Law and Language in the European Union

the paradox of a babel "united in diversity"

Access to justice in environmental matters and the role of NGOs

empirical findings ana legal appraisal

Access to information in the European Union

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 ...

Rule of reason

rethinking another classic of european legal doctrine

INDEX: Ch. 1 In defence of public interest : the rule of reason genesis of a principle of law by Annette A. M. Schrauwen Ch. 2 The genesis of the rule of reason in the free movement of goods by Laurence W. Gormley Ch. 3 Economic ...

The Constitution for Europe and an enlarging union

unity in diversity?

Reflections on 30 years of EU environmental Law

a hight level of protection?

More than 30 years have passed since the first Community environmental programme was adopted in 1973, starting the work on what is now a vast body of Community law covering almost any aspect of environmental protection. This book endeavours to take a step back and ...

Does Europe's constitution stop at the water's edge?

Law and policy in the EU's external relations

This lecture examines the external policies of the EU from a perspective of European constitutionalism. It offers an inquiry into the boundaries between law and policy in the diverse and ever expanding field of EU external relations. The main thesis is that, in a globalised ...

Legal interaction between decisions of international organizations and European Law

Principles of european environmental Law

The european competition rules

Landmak cases of the European Courts and the Commission

European legal aspects of E-commerce

The year 2000 is a memorable year in the history of e-commerce, the year of the so-called #dot.com shake-out#. 2000 was also the year the European Union issued its E-commerce Directive. This directive regulates and facilitates e-commerce in the internal market. On the one ...

Europe and the environment

legal essays in honour of Ludwing Krämer