The increasing mobility of people leads to the worldwide circulation of documents that record the personal status of people (e.g. birth, marriage, death). The recognition of these documents traditionally belongs to the field of private international law. This book first maps the private international law rules applicable in Belgium and the Netherlands (Chapter 1) and scrutinises whether and to what extent human rights law and EU principles can support people to obtain or prevent the recogniti...

In his valedictory lecture, The Roundabouts of European Law and Economics, Prof. Dr Roger Van den Bergh critically reflects upon three decades of research in European Law and Economics. He discusses the difficult reception of economic analysis of law in the 1980s-1990s, the spectacular growth of Law and Economics in both academia and policy circles at the turn of the millennium and the recent impact of behavioural economics on policy-making. Examples from different areas of law illustrate maj...

Internationaal publiekrecht als wereldrecht behandelt in hoofdlijnen de boeiende wereld van het internationale recht.

Drie vragen staan hierbij centraal. Ten eerste in hoeverre de beginselen en regels van het internationale recht ‘wereldrecht’ vormen, dat wil zeggen voor de hele wereld gelden en ook door de gehele internationale gemeenschap geaccepteerd worden. De tweede vraag luidt in hoeverre, naast staten en internationale organisaties, wereldburgers, volken en multinationale ondernemi...