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Les grandes questions de la philosophie pénale

La philosophie pénale donne d'abord à penser à une philosophie se rapportant au droit. Toutefois, elle est loin de se réduire à une réflexion philosophique sur le droit pénal ou sur la conception de la peine. Elle n'est donc pas une simple considération ...

Quality of judicial organisation and checks and balances

This comparative work looks at approaches to judicial administration in France and the Netherlands within the frameworks of the judicial systems and constitutional law. It explores the possibility of creating a normative way of assessing the quality of the judicial organization. The argument is put ...

Defence rights during administrative investigations

A comparative study into defence rights during administrative investigations against EU fraud in England and Wales, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden and Switzerland

This book contains a comparative study into defence rights during administrative investigations in the context of administrative law. This book concentrates on the work of the European Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF, which ordered this study. Since administrative law is about decisionmaking, defence rights are not the ...

The challenge of democracy

Government in America

This best-selling, mainstream American government text is both a comprehensive introduction and a complete program, with the print text and ancillaries carefully crafted to work together to benefit both instructor and student. The Ninth Edition maintains its highly acclaimed, non-ideological framework, exploring three themes: freedom ...

American government

Distinguished by its myth vs. reality framework, "American Government" encourages students to confront their preconceptions about American government and to think critically about the U.S. political system. Up- to-date coverage includes the media, public opinion, the Supreme Court, domestic and international policy, education and ...

Labour Law and industrial relations in Great Britain

It provides a concise introduction to labour law in the context of British industrial relations. Part I deals with the Individual Employment Relationship, inlcuding the effect of labour market changes on legal definitions of the relationship, working time, remuneration, incapacity, job security and discrimination. There ...

Civil procedure used for enforcement of EC competition Law by the english, french and german Civil Courts

European competition law has been increasingly subject to two complementary forces: decentralisation and harmonisation. In the course of this process, certain procedural elements have come to the fore as constituting impediments to the enforcement of Articles 81 and 82 EC in terms of actions for ...

Uniform application of the international sales Law

Understanding uniformity, the global jurisconsultorium and examination and notification provisions of the CISG

The 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is perhaps the most widely-used standard in the area of international sales law. Yet commercial lawyers often struggle to understand its uniformity across different legal systems, and as a result often ...

Regulation of subsidies and state aids in WTO and EC Law

Conflicts in international trade Law

Regulating subsidies in international trade is crucial to the efficient and equitable allocation of resources and ultimately to global welfare. Much of the serious instability that persists in today's interdependent world may be traced to government interventions that dilute or defy such regulation. In ...

Designing e-government

Governments across the world have recognised the potential of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to bring about fundamental renewal in not only government and public sector processes, but also their relationship with civil societal groups, the private sector, citizens, and various other actors. ICT ...

The determination of corporate taxable income in the EU member States

The survey underpinning this invaluable work was inspired by an increasing appreciation within the EU of the need to achieve some degree of direct tax harmony. The essential starting point for such an undertaking is a set of standardized rules for the computation of EU-wide ...

Taxation of capital gains under the OECD Model Convention

With special regard to immovable property

Increasing globalization and the related cross-border flows of capital resources has only increased interest in the taxation of transnational capital gains among practitioners and scholars. This is particularly true as it relates to investments in immovable property. As a consequence, Article 13 of the OECD ...

Conflicts of interest

Corporate governance and financial markets

This book presents in-depth analysis of such management in three areas of corporate governance where the conflict of interest problems are particularly acute: executive compensation, financial analysis, and asset management.

The harmonization of international commercial Law

The globalisation of markets has pushed static, territorially-bounded legal structures towards a more rapid and efficient adaptation to the globalised and regionalised reality. In addition, substantial modifications in the structure and activities of financial institutions have increased risks and the need for new regulatory responses ...

Constitutional Law of the Netherlands

An introduction

This book contains an outline of the constitutional law of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It deals among others with the history of the Constitution, the form of state and the form of government, the head of state, the government, parliament, parliamentary scrutiny of government ...

Politiques de la laïcite au XXe siècle

Dir. Patrick Weil Le propos de cet ouvrage n'est ni de célébrer la loi de 1905, " centenaire " mais toujours " vaillante ", ni de méditer sur son sens et son esprit, mais de porter un nouvel éclairage sur les faits qui se sont produits aux moments ...

Le jeu du Droit et de la puissance

Précis de relations internationales

Le temps n'est plus où la guerre était la continuation de la politique par d'autres moyens. Avec la mondialisation, les relations internationales sont de moins en moins le domaine réservé des États et de plus en plus celui des institutions, des entreprises, des ...

Manuel des Droits de l'Homme et libertés publiques

Les droits de l'homme se situent au coeur de l'ordre politique et juridique des États libéraux, dont la France. Leur promotion est l'une des justifications principales de la construction européenne et constitue l'une des finalités des Nations Unies. Ce manuel est ...

Integración europea y diferencias comerciales en la OMC

Esta monografía analiza la participación de la Comunidad Europea junto a sus Estados miembros en el Sistema de Solución de Diferencias de la OMC. No existe hasta el momento regulación convencional o comunitaria alguna sobre las prerrogativas y obligaciones que corresponden a la Comunidad o ...

La proyección exterior de la Unión Europea

Desafíos y realidad

RESUMEN: El proyecto de construcción de una Europa más sólida, más política y más unida se halla en un cruce de caminos. Circunstancia apropiada para acercarnos a la Unión Europea en el escenario internacional e ilustrar aspectos diversos de su acción exterior. En esta obra ...