This book brings a unique, comparative approach to competition policy in healthcare. By examining an insurance-based and a taxation-funded healthcare system, insights emerge into the applicability and application of general competition law and healthcare-specific competition rules at EU and Member State level. The developing interactions between healthcare regulators and competition authorities, and issues arising from hospital mergers with re...

Common Interests in International Litigation provides answers to questions that international litigation faces as the result of an increasing recognition of common interests in this area, with an ever-expanding network of specialised judicial bodies.

De Nederlandse accenten in het veiligheidsbeleid van de Europese Unie vormden het overkoepelend thema van deze bundel. Deze keuze werd ingegeven door het Nederlands Voorzitterschap van de Europese Unie in de eerste helft van 2016.

This book explores the extent to which Responsibility to Protect shifts our understanding of both the potential and practice of international law.

This book identifies rules and limits of cross-border computer network operations for which States bear the international responsibility during both peace and war. It consequently addresses questions on jus ad bellum and jus in bello in addition to State responsibility.

This book fills a gap in the literature on how the Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions positions itself within the bigger field of public international law. Several studies have been undertaken regarding the relationship of this Convention with the trade regime. However, the drafting process of the Convention brought many more than only trade issues to the forefront, such as heritage law, human ...

Dit boek is een gebruiksvriendelijke gids voor de rechtspracticus, maar ook voor de geïnteresseerde burger die een klacht wil indienen bij het Europees Hof. Deze tweede ed. is bijgewerkt tot 1 augustus 2011.

Fundamental rights provisions are known for their relatively vague and general formulation. As a result, judges dealing with these provisions are confronted with many and often controversial interpretative choices. These interpretative choices already present judges operating in a national context with difficulties, but that is even more so for European judges of the ECtHR and the CJEU. This volume analyses the use legal interpretation methods...

Every four years the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) organises an International Congress of Comparative Law. In preparation of this congress the IACL has drawn up a list of topics and has asked the national associations of comparative law to invite authors to write a national report on the various topic. The Netherlands Comparative Law Association has compiled all national reports written by the Dutch reporters in this book.