International criminal procedure

a clash of legal cultures

The procedures used by international criminal courts blend elements of civil law and common law procedures. This mixture causes disputes between civil and common law lawyers which are hard to resolve while the disputants remain philosophically bound by the premises of their native legal systems ...

The European Union and crisis management

policy and legal aspects

Ed. Steven Blockmans. In the wake of the Balkan wars, the EU has worked hard to close the so- called 'capabilities-expectations gap' in the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). With the institution of new political and military structures and procedures, the agreement on principles ...

Dividing lines between the European Union and its member States

the impact of the Treaty of Lisbon

In the European Union the balance of power between Brussels and the Member State governments is an ongoing matter of contention. With each treaty amendment during the Union's first 50 years, EU competences have grown, and each time critics have questioned whether the national ...

Self-Regulation in Cyberspace

Is private regulation of the Internet over? Have states taken over? This book examines the function of self-regulation in cyberspace. It argues that, contrary to what is often supposed in the literature, self- regulation is still an indispensable part of regulation of the Internet and ...

Customary Law of the Internet

in the search for a supranational cyberspace Law

Internet Law and Custom discusses international regulation of the Internet from two perspectives: international conventions and customary law. The first part of the book discusses issues posed by the emergence of the Internet and analyses relevant international treaties. In particular, the first assessment of the ...

Fighting the war on file sharing

Fighting the War on File Sharing aims at a multi-faceted understanding of why peer-to-peer services currently fail to gain their full potential in our society. The analysis focuses on music-file sharing. Three parts of the book ('The Morality of Regulation by Architecture', 'The Economics of ...

Regulating spam

a european perspective after the adoption of the E-Privacy Directive

This book presents an evaluation of recent legislative initiatives against unsolicited commercial e-mail ('spam') in the European Union. It provides an analysis of the meaning and interpretation of the new regulatory regime for unsolicited communications within the EU, and also addresses international aspects of the ...

Starting points for ICT regulation

deconstructing prevalent policy one-liners

What does the term 'on-line' mean? When do we actually enter the on-line environment and leave the 'off-line' world? Is it different, separate, or even unique compared to the off- line world? In what cases do we need to regulate it, and how? These have ...

The franco-russian war

the German conquest of France in 1870-1871

Terrorism and the international legal order

with special reference to the UN, the EU and cross-border aspects

Treaty enforcement and international cooperation in criminal matters

with special reference to the Chemical Weapons Convention