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 ...

European contract Law and the Welfare State

In the European Union, a debate is ongoing about the Europeanization of contract law. However, its impact on the different welfare states' types, as they are developed in political science, has not been discussed elaborately. Nearly all Member States of the EU can be characterized ...

The Law of succession

testamentary freedom

The law of succession, which has been traditionally confined to domestic limits, is becoming a frequent topic of discussion in international forums, due to the increasing mobility of people and assets. Freedom of testation is in the center of all initiatives tending to harmonize or ...

Dispute avoidance and european contract Law

dealing with divergence

Since early 2000 the European institutions have politically prioritised the need for greater coherence and uniformity in European private law. Contract law in particular has remained centre stage. Concerns that the functioning of the Community#s internal market has been hampered by divergence in Member ...

Collective enforcement of consumer Law

securing compliance in Europe through private group action and public authority intervention

In the 1970s and 1980s, the consumer rights movement in Europe primarily focussed on improving consumer rights by way of changing the substantive law. Moreover, from the second half of the 1980s onwards, consumer law increasingly became of interest to the European Union. In the ...