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World Development Law
Publication date: January 8, 2001
The 1986 United Nations Declaration on the right to development declares that the human person is the central subject of development. World Development Law takes this statement as a starting point. To what extent has the branch of international law that deals with North-South relationships changed since 1986? What has been the effect of moving the individual to the centre of the stage in development relationships? Clearly, the relationship bet...Paperback -
Remedies to Informational Asymmetries in Stock Markets
Publication date: September 20, 2005
Like many other markets, stock markets are characterised by asymmetric information. If investors cannot distinguish high-quality from low-quality securities, they will value all securities as average resulting in the well known market for lemons. How can high-quality listed companies communicate with stock markets to distinguish themselves from low-quality listed companies?Paperback€95.- -
Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals - student edition
Publication date: October 20, 2005
This book contains the most important decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda that were published in the series Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals.Paperback€40.- -
Rule of Law on the International Agenda
Publication date: October 5, 2006
This book presents the most important political, economic and moral imperatives of the international support legal and judicial reforms in developing, transition and post-crisis environments; provides an overview of the main implementation strategies; and explains their strengths and weaknesses.Paperback€64.- -
Social Security Cases in Europe: The European Court of Human Rights
Publication date: September 6, 2007
This casebook addresses the following questions. What aspects of social security are covered by the European Convention on Human Rights? What obligations does a State have in the field of social security to safeguard the rights guaranteed in the Convention? To what extent can a national right to a social security benefit constitute a civil right or even a property right as protected by the Convention?Paperback€69.- -
Developmental and Autonomy Rights of Children
Publication date: October 5, 2007
The emancipation of the young child and the rehabilitation and emancipation of the deprived, exploited, abused and neglected child remain in a legal shadow land. This book intends to explore this shadow land. It introduces the concepts of the Trias pedagogica and Transism in order to shed light on the obligations and responsibilities of states and other actors in the empowerment of children, caregivers and communities.Paperback€45.- -
Children's Rights and Human Development
Publication date: March 4, 2010
Children’s rights and Human development is a new and uncharted domain in human rights and psychology research. This multidisciplinary book is the first to introduce this domain to students and researchers of children’s rights, child development, child maltreatment, family and child studies and related fields. The texts in this book may be used both as background readings and as tasks for group discussion in problem based learning or other edu...Paperback€135.- -
Human rights protection in the European legal order: The interaction between the European and the national courts
Publication date: June 30, 2011
This book zooms in on various aspects of the interaction between courts in the complex European system of human rights protection. Where courts are faced with a human rights claim, they not only have to examine the validity of that claim, but also need to have a clear understanding of the human rights catalogue that is to be applied, i.e. human rights as guaranteed by the national constitution, human rights as protected under EU law, based or ...Hardback€89.- -
European Company Law, 2nd edition
Publication date: November 30, 2011
Over the last decade, European company law has been re-written completely. Virtually no EU measure remained unchanged and most of them have undergone fundamental reform. This book discusses the EC/EU law first including all instruments through which it is transposed into the national law systems. However, where no EC/EU law exists, a comparative law discussion and policy aspects, namely law and economics, fill the gaps. The whole organism of (...Paperback€185.- -
New Challenges for the UN Human Rights Machinery
Publication date: December 31, 2011
In 2009, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights gave a new impetus to the ongoing discussions on the reform of the UN treaty bodies and the modernization of the UN human rights system. This impressive collection of essays is a response to the High Commissioner’s call, which joins initiatives by other stakeholders, from an academic perspective. The book has two parts: one presents reflections on the Treaty Body System and the second on the...Paperback€95.-