The International Journal of Procedural Law provides an international research platform for scholars and practitioners in the field of procedural law, especially in civil matters.

Is the globalisation of the world economy threatening employment, wages and social safety nets in the industrial countries? What is the role played by the basic labour standards of the International Labour Organisation? Is a multilateral social clause desirable? As there is far from consensus about the answers to this question, the disagreement on cures and remedies will hardly come as a surprise.

Directive (EEC) No 94/45 is the first concrete step towards community-scale participation for workers. After a critical analysis of the directive and its implementation in Belgian, German, French and Dutch law by eminent international experts, four recent test cases are examined.

This is the first annotated selection of decisions, orders and judgements of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

By means of the Maastricht Treaty, criminal law and justice have become the object of European Policy. The criminal law combat against drug trafficking, organised crime, corruption and EU fraud stands high on the political agenda.

Many states feel an obligation not only to respect human rights themselves, but also to pursue human rights issues in their relations with other states. Human rights are very much on the international political agenda. Little is known, however, about how much one state can influence another state to improve its human rights record, and which factors make such influence attempts more or less effective.

This book gives a general insight into the legal aspects of soil pollution and the decontamination of polluted soil.

This book discusses the common ground between the protection of freedom of expression in English law and under the ECHR against the background of the incorporation of the ECHR into English law in the Human Rights Act 1998.

In this book, the author comes to the conclusion that “eventually freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief may be the best instrument against a world governed by sheer materialistic forces: it is now more than ever relevant to protect and encourage further development of Man’s conscience”.