Inside police custody

an empirical account of suspects' rights in four

This empirical study of the procedural rights of suspects in four EU jurisdictions - France, Scotland, the Netherlands and England and Wales - focuses on three of the procedural rights set out in the EU Roadmap for strengthening the procedural rights of suspected or accused persons in ...

Linked contracts

Modern society is full of linked contracts. Linked contracts, in the broadest sense of the word, can be defined as a plurality of separately concluded contracts that are somehow interrelated. However, contract law is still primarily centred on traditional contractual relations between (just) two parties ...

Conflict of Laws and Laws of conflict in Europe and beyond

patterns of supranational and transnational juridification

Ed. Rainer Nickel. This book is based on the proceedings from a conference at the European University Institute in Florence. It deals with new approaches to supra- and transnational law generating structures. These new approaches, namely Christian Joerges# theoretical concept based upon the conflict of ...

An EU-wide letter of rights

towards best practice

Everybody who is arrested or questioned by the police on suspicion of involvement in a criminal activity has certain rights, such as the right to remain silent or to consult a lawyer. One of the key factors in ensuring fair proceedings is whether suspects have ...

Fact-finding in civil litigation

a comparative perspective

In civil cases, the facts of the case are often decisive. This book provides a comparative analysis of the process of fact-finding in the litigation process. It offers theoretical insights on the distinctive features of the fact-finding arrangements in civil cases in Austria, the Netherlands ...

Financial supervision in a comparative perspective

This book provides an overview of the role of the independent administrative authorities assigned to the oversight of financial markets, by outlining both the historic and economic background, the warp and the weft of the European system, and where these authorities have emerged and now ...

The European Private Company (SPE)

a critical analysis of the EU draft statute

Eds. D.F.M.M. Zaman...[et al]. This book deals with the Proposal for a Council Regulation on the Statute for a European Private Company (Societas Privata Europaea, SPE) as put forward by the European Commission in the summer of 2008. It adds to ...