Notaries in Europa-growing fields of competence

Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia

Model family code

from a global perspective

In extensive areas of private law, namely in the law of obligations, endeavours to comprehensively harmonize and unify different legal systems were already commenced in the second half of the twentieth century. However, family law has only followed suit in very recent times. This Model ...

Good governance and the European Union

reflections on concepts, institutions and substance

The White Paper of the Commission on European Governance focussed attention on the notion of good governance in the European Union. One of the possible criticisms on this White Paper is that it does not define the concept in any meaningful way. At the same ...

Universal jurisdiction in modern international Law

expansion of national jurisdiction for prosecuting serious crimes under international Law

This study is based on the following questions: Which jurisdiction can and should be exercised for the prosecution of individuals responsible for gross and serious violations of human rights? And especially, in this regard, what is the role of universal jurisdiction? In explaining the modern ...

Common core and better Law in european family Law

Understanding EU Law

objectives, principles and methods of community Law

Regional integration and Courts of Justice

International cooperation in Social Security

how to cope with globalisation?

European evidence warrant

transnational judicial inquiries in the EU

The transnational gathering and use of criminal evidence is a complex and sensitive matter that affects basic principles inherent in national criminal justice systems. Replacing the mutual assistance regime (letters rogatory) by a mutual recognition regime intends to facilitate the admissibility of evidence obtained from ...

European traditions in civil Procedure

European co-operation has resulted in many new and challenging opportunities for legal scholars who, since the so-called codification period, have become used to operating in a purely national context. This applies also to scholars in the field of civil procedure, who, for a considerable period ...

Harmonization of criminal Law in Europe

In articles by legal scholars from six countries, the ongoing harmonization of criminal law in Europe is analysed from different perspectives. Through an examination of the rapid progress in European Union Law in this area, both the harmonization of substantial criminal law provisions and criminal ...

Indirect discrimination

a case study into the development of the legal concept of indirect discrimination under EC Law

Introduced into European Community law by the Court of Justice through its case law in the field of free movement of workers, the legal concept of indirect discrimination has evolved into one with far wider and greater relevance to many other areas of EC law ...

European cross-border insolvency regulation

a study of Regulation 1346/2000 on Insolvency Proceedings in the light of a paradigm of co-operation and a Comitas Europaea

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the regulation of cross- border insolvencies in Europe. Council Regulation 1346/2000 on Insolvency Proceedings forms the natural focal point of such a study. However, while this book explores in detail the background, legal basis as well as ...

All's well that ends registered?

the substantive and private international Law aspects of non-marital registered relationships in Europe

Conflicting integration

the environmental Law of the European Union

Federalism and labour Law

The right to seek refugee status in the European Union

This book analyses the implications of the EU asylum policy for the right to seek refugee status within the meaning of the 1951 UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. The author contends that the development of other forms of international protection does not ...

Enforcement of international contracts in International law

convergence and divergence between Brussels I and Rome I

The enforcement of international contracts in the European Union is increasingly dependent on Community (rather than national) private international law. This book examines the present status and future prospects of Community private international law in the contractual area. It focuses in particular upon the joint ...

European Energy Law

report I

Remedies in network industries

EC Competition Law vs. sector-specific regulation

European Community law for the new economy

Agencies in European and comparative perspective