By drawing from her research on ethnic profiling, crimmigration and counterterrorism legislation, Van der Woude illustrates the key role that discretion has in various criminal justice matters, as well as emphasizing the need to view and research discretion as an interdisciplinary concept.

Whereas discretion is considered necessary for the proper and efficient functioning of the criminal justice system, it is more often seen as a problem for legal and public policy due to its potential for in...

De UvA-studenteneditie Internationaal en Europees recht bestaat uit een aantal geselecteerde hoofdstukken uit Kern van het internationaal publiekrecht (negende druk, ISBN 978-94-6290-912-0) en Kern van het Europees recht (tweede druk, ISBN 978-94-6290-913-7) en wordt gebruikt in het onderwijs aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam.

De hoofdstuknummering en verwijzingen zijn ongewijzigd gebleven. Dit betekent dat er verwijzingen zijn naar hoofdstukken uit de boeken die niet in deze uitgave zijn opg...

Jurisprudentie Europees recht bevat de cruciale uitspraken van het Hof van Justitie van de Europese Unie, welke van belang zijn voor het onderwijs in de eerste twee jaar van de opleiding rechtsgeleerdheid.

Ten behoeve van het onderwijs is elke uitspraak voorzien van een beknopte noot.

Daarnaast biedt deze geactualiseerde bundel voor de praktijkjurist een ideale verzameling van belangrijke uitspraken op het gebied van Europees recht.

Prof. dr. J.W. Sap is hoogleraar Europees recht aan de Open ...

About the 8th Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture, Michael Fakhri writes:

“Drawing on my work as Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and my upcoming report to the Human Rights Council, I will outline a way out. I will explain how systems not only produce food but also amplify and produce forms of violence that make people more poor, vulnerable, and marginalised. I also describe how food systems rely on a global economy of dependency and extractivism.

In sum, food systems are part of a cycle b...

In the European Union, a debate is on-going about the Europeanization of contract law. However, its impact on the different welfare states’ types, as they are developed in political science, has not been discussed elaborately.

Nearly all Member States of the European Union can be characterized as a welfare state or may be post-welfare state. There are many definitions and descriptions of the welfare state. It is generally accepted that social citizenship is a common characteristic of the w...

This book covers the presentations held at the launching event of the Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies (ICGI) at Maastricht University. The thought provoking presentations were held by three distinguished speakers: Willem Lageweg (Director of MVO Nederland and member of the ICGI Advisory Board), Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Cramer (Director of the Utrecht Sustainability Institute and Professor in Sustainable Innovation at Utrecht University) and Dr. André Veneman (Corp...

The field of consumer online dispute resolution is going through important developments throughout Europe. New ODR providers are entering the field and a growing number of ADR bodies are relying on digital technologies to resolve consumer complaints. Also, consumers are increasingly resorting to online platforms to achieve redress. ODR has the potential to increase consumers’ access to redress by taking the procedure online. At the same time, the quality of cODR procedures remains a challen...