Unfair contract terms in european Law

a study in comparative and EC Law

The book examines Directive 93/13 on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts and its implementation with a twofold aim first, to understand the extent to which the Directive has influenced and will influence fundamental notions and principles of contract law in the domestic legal systems ...

The transformation of administrative Law in Europe= La mutation du Droit administratif en Europe

The thorough transformation of administrative law is a process of utmost importance in many European jurisdictions. Nevertheless, there appears to be no common European debate about that development. It is the general idea of a new transnational project, bringing together scholars from some pertinent European ...

European politics

This textbook blends an analysis of individual nation states with an examination of the critical issues that confront them all, and which are addressed comparatively. It takes account of both the national and transnational factors that affect and are affected by politics in Europe - notably ...

EU food Law

protecting consumers and health in a common market

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the European Union law of food regulation. It details the way in which EU law impacts upon the production and sale of food throughout the Union. It examines the legal protection accorded to the free movement of food ...

Policy transfer in European Union govern

regulating the utilities

This new book presents a clear conceptual framework for understanding the transfer of policy ideas between EU states, together with an empirical study of regulatory change within European utilities. Policy transfer is a new instrument for understanding EU policy-making. This volume shows how the nature ...

El domicilio y su régimen jurídico

El domicilio se ha considerado habitualmente como un lugar especialmente reservado: un reducto en el que la persona puede verse libre de intromisiones ajenas y en el que poder desarrollar su personalidad sin cortapisas impuestas por terceros, incluidos los poderes públicos. Esta imagen un tanto ...

Europe after enlargement

Where is Europe going? In this collection, several prominent European economists offer essays on the five big challenges to the development of the European Union (EU). Namely, the new European Constitution, European finances and the Euro, the need to boost economic growth, competition in both ...

The language question in Europe and diverse societies

political, legal, and social perspectives

Recent developments in the European integration process have raised, amongst many other things, the issue of linguistic diversity. This is regarded by some as a stumbling block to the creation and sustainability of a European democratic polity and to the fair working of its legal ...

El estatuto jurídico del trabajador extracomunitario en España

La regulación jurídica de la extranjería a través de los tiempos. La Unión Europea ante el fenómeno de la inmigración extracomunitaria. El derecho al trabajo. Los derechos colectivos de los trabajadores extranjeros. El trabajador extranjero ante el sistema español de protección social. El accesso al ...

El reconocimiento de las uniones no matrimoniales en la Unión Europea

análisis y sinopsis de las leyes autonómicas en vigor

La convivencia no matrimonial ha recibido en los últimos años un vasto reconocimiento jurídico en los países miembros de la Unión Europea, paralelamente al aumento progresivo del número de parejas de hecho. El derecho ha decidido regular, por primera vez en la historia, algunas de ...

Vicisitudes de la aplicación del Derecho comunitario en España

INDICE: La coordinación comunitaria del riesgo de dependencia. Los ciudadanos en España y la Ley de dependencia. La tramitación de las pensiones de incapacidad y jubilación en aplicación de los reglamentos comunitarios: aspectos procedimentales. La coordinación comunitaria de las prestaciones por desempleo españolas. Introducción a ...

Better regulation

The discourse of 'Better Regulation' is a hot topic, intimately associated with the drive for cost savings and a more efficient economy. In the UK and in the EU, rule-makers have lately endeavoured to achieve a more satisfactory balance between the demands of proper protection ...

The security dimensions of EU enlargement

wider Europe, weaker Euope?

This timely volume analyses the impact of enlargement on both pre-existing EU security arrangements and key relationships with the EU's new partners and 'neighbours'. The changing nature of security, the enlargement of European institutions and the evolving functions of the EU have been key ...

EU public procurement Law

"EU Public Procurement Law" addresses one of the most important areas of European integration. With a magnitude approaching 1 trillion euros in supplies, works and services and representing almost 12 percent of the European Union's GDP, public procurement regulation represents a key objective of ...

Interest representation in the European Union

The fully revised second edition of this highly-acclaimed book provides an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the role of business interests and of organized civil society in the everyday policy-making of the EU and of the significance of interest representation for European integration, and for ...

L'action extérieure de la Communauté Européenne en matière de droits de propriété intellectuelle

approche institutionnelle

Si le processus d'internationalisation du droit de la propriété intellectuelle n'est pas nouveau, il tend à prendre une toute autre dimension depuis que l'OMC l'a repris en main en 1995, faisant basculer la matière dans l'ère de la mondialisation. On ...

Law, politics, and morality

european perspectives III. Ethics and social justice

The volume Ethics and Social Justice closes the series Law, Politics, and Morality: European Perspectives. This third volume collects the papers presented at the third meeting of the series PhD Euroconferences in Legal Philosophy, founded by the European Commission, held at the University of Genoa ...

Fondamento, attuazione e controllo del principio di sussidiarietà nel Diritto della Comunità e dell'Unione Europea

Il volume si propone di fornire un contributo allo studio del principio di sussidiarietà attraverso una ricostruzione del suo fondamento, della sua concreta applicazione e del relativo controllo (politico e giurisdizionale), nell'ambito dell'ordinamento della Comunità e dell'Unione europea. Quanto al profilo strettamente ...

Shipping conferences under EC antitrust Law

criticism of a legal paradox

Liner conferences are among the oldest surviving cartels in the world. Created in the 1870s they have existed since on all the world's shipping routes. With the approval or tacit acquiescence of governments everywhere, they fix freight rates, control capacity and share markets. The ...

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 ...