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Facilitating Cross-Border Real Estate Transactions in Europe
An Exploration
2021 || Paperback || Katja Zimmermann || Eleven international publishing
The acquisition of a plot of land is a complex legal transaction. When a foreign element is added to this transaction, the complexity inevitably increases. In the interest of promoting the proper functioning of the EU internal market, this study investigates how this complexity can be reduced. To this end, it offers an in-depth study ofthe land registration systems ofthe Netherlands, Germany, and England & Wales to understand how differentland registration systems unfold in legal practice. It...
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Choosing Sharia?
Multiculturalism, Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia Councils
|| Paperback || Machteld Zee || Eleven international publishing
Proponents of multiculturalism do not usually subscribe to Islamist goals. Yet, across Europe, these are being furthered. Sharia councils are deeply at odds with Western moral and legal principles of equality, freedom and justice. But high-profile multiculturalists tend to present a romanticised view of these councils, which obscures both the ideology that motivates them and their practical consequences. Are Sharia councils a legitimate expression of the longing for identity, as multicultural...
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Between Hobbes' Leviathan and Smith's Invisible Hand
empirical and interdisciplinary legal research on formal and informal institutions in trust relations
2016 || Paperback || Vincent W. Buskens || Eleven international publishing
This is the inaugural address delivered on the acceptance of the Chair of Empirical Legal Studies at the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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English legal terminology / Druk 4
legal concepts in language
2015 || Paperback || Helen Gubby || Eleven international publishing
Legal English is a professional language. This means that a good command of ordinary English does not make a student automatically proficient in legal English. Many foreign law students on English language programmes experience problems when suddenly all their lectures, textbooks, discussions and written work have to be in English. A lack of familiarity with legal English canseriously impede their progress. And a command of legal English is not just a desirable academic skill. It has become a...
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Nuclear Weapons
strengthening the international legal regime
2015 || Hardcover || Ida Caracciolo e.a. || Eleven international publishing
This book contains an up-to-date analysis on the legal aspects of nuclear non-proliferation
and disarmament. It scrutinizes the effectiveness, the limits, the adaptation, and the future
challenges of the regime on the control of nuclear weapons which is still based on the 1968
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and supported by the IAEA
controls.
It also deals with new challenges to the non-proliferation legal order deriving mainly from
new nuclear weapon states, the Nor...
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Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law 2022
2023 || Hardcover || Marcel Szabó e.a. || Eleven international publishing
The Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law comprises a collection of articles written mainly by Hungarian authors, covering developments in the field of international law and EU law, and progress in the domestic implementation and application of these fields of law. The thematic chapter of Vol. 10 (2022), entitled ‘Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Project Case Judgment: 25 Years On’, focuses on one of the most important environmentrelated cases of the ICJ, and its impact on the dev...
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Sentencing at the International Criminal Court
from Nuremberg to the Hague
|| Paperback || Alice Riccardi || Eleven international publishing
This book deals with the purposes of sentencing in international criminal law focusing on the International Criminal Court. Notwithstanding the modern longevity of international criminal law and the volume of research produced on the issue of international sentencing rationales, the International Criminal Court has not yet established a coherent sentencing policy. Vis-à-vis the absence of statutory provisions identifying the objectives of sentences, this book explores the law as it is with t...
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Rethinking Choice of Law in Cross-Border Sales
2018 || Paperback || Gustavo Moser || Eleven international publishing
The governing contract law dictates and regulates the life of a contract. Despite its importance, little is known about the choice of law decision-making process. Is there (ir)rationality involved? How can we ascertain this? How can we improve these judgements?
Rethinking Choice of Law in Cross-Border Sales is an innovative, multi-disciplinary, and practice-oriented initiative to examine what factors determine the way contracting parties choose the law to govern their agreements. It presents ...
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Does the Law of Succession Reflect Cultural Differences?
|| Paperback || Reinhard Zimmermann || Eleven international publishing
This is the published version of the first Maastricht Private Law Lecture which was delivered by Reinhard Zimmermann on 27 January 2017. According to a widely held view, the law of succession is shaped by the cultural values of the society within which it prevails. Related to this is the perception that the law of succession is marked by great stability. It is thus resistant both to change and to legal harmonization. Comparative research, too, has traditionally been regarded as impractical an...
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The European Arrest Warrant and In Absentia Judgements
2020 || Paperback || Hannah Brodersen e.a. || Eleven international publishing
The absence of the accused in criminal proceedings leading to a conviction causes many legal and practical questions when an European Arrest Warrant is issued to execute such an in absentia judgment. Whereas some Member States see no problem in allowing trials without the accused, other Member States have serious objections to it. These different standards create many problems in practice and necessitate the executing judicial authority to request supplementary information
from the issuing ju...