Martti Koskenniemi on his lecture 'International Law and the Far Right: Reflections on Law and Cynicism':

‘Since the emergence of the profession in the 1870s, international lawyers have lent themselves to supporting various political projects, from ruling of empire to decolonisation, from supporting national self-determination to arguing in favour of global governance of the transnational economy. They have celebrated sovereignty and supported human rights.

The recent backlash against glob...

Anne Orford on her lecture 'International Law and the Social Question':

‘While international law has played a central role in creating the conditions for market liberalization on a global scale, many international lawyers have paid less attention to the social question - that is, the question of who is able to participate in political decision-making about economic relations and property rights.

The current moment of perceived backlash to international law and institutions offers an opport...

Europeanisation of Public Law? (second edition) is a study about the relation between European and national public law. Familiar EU doctrines on ?procedural autonomy?, ?direct effect?, ?consistent interpretation?, ?ex officio application of European law? and ?state liability? are used as a starting point for examining the effects of these doctrines in the various Member States. Consideration is also given to important questions concerning the enforcement of European law in the national legal ...

Dit boek is geschreven voor studenten en andere belangstellenden die indringend willen kennismaken met de grote leerstukken van het Europese recht. Het is geen naslagwerk en streeft niet naar uitputtende behandeling, maar naar kennis en begrip van hoofdzaken in hun verband. Het boek benut de historische, de politieke en de maatschappelijke achtergrond van het Europese recht voor zover deze bijdragen aan overzicht en inzicht. Europees recht heeft een centrale plaats in vrijwel elk aspect van d...

This leading monograph on European Environmental Law is now completely updated and revised. This book provides an in-depth analysis of important legal issues of European environmental law. What are the legal grounds for EU environmental policy and on what principles are directives and regulations based upon? To what extent precludes EU environmental regulation more stringent national environmental standards? What are the requirements the Court of Justice has imposed on the Member States imple...

The Maastricht Collection comprises a broad selection of legal instruments and provisions that have proven to be particularly relevant and useful to students and practitioners of international, European, and comparative law. The compilation is based on the long-standing expertise in teaching and researching European, international, and comparative national law at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Law. It includes codes and statutory legislation from France, Germany, the Netherlands, and th...

About the book: This book describes the unique process of legal evolution in the field of environmental law, which is denoted as constitutionalisation of the environmental protection in the EU legal order. This notion refers to the process of transformation of this particular area of law, which is reflected in its novel autonomous features and materialised through the normative and jurisprudential elevation of environmental objectives and principles. In the course of recent years, environment...

Europese Rechtspraak - Algemeen Deel bevat de belangrijkste uitspraken van het Hof van Justitie van de Europese Unie over zowel het institutionele als het materiële Europese recht. Daarmee is de bundel in de eerste plaats bedoeld om te worden gebruikt in het hoger onderwijs (Bachelor of Master). Deze arrestenbundel volgt daarbij de structuur van het handboek Europees Recht - Algemeen Deel. De samenhang tussen de bundel en dit handboek zit met name in de keuze van arresten: alle uitspraken in...

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...