Studieboeken (7)
European Family Law
2016 || Hardcover || Jens M. Scherpe || Edward Elgar Publishing
This definitive work, published in four-volumes, maps the emerging European family law.The chapters draw on a wide range of topics, such as: marriage, divorce, cohabitation, same-sex relationships, the financial consequence of divorce, adoption, parentage and surrogacy, parental responsibility, the child's welfare, and law concerning older people. Through its stimulating comparative analysis and comprehensive coverage of the topic, this set of books is intended to serve as a major resource fo...
Law and Morality Revisited
2024 || Hardcover || A. Ellian e.a. || Boom juridisch
The contributions to this edited volume explore, from various perspectives, the relationship between law and morality. The authors analyze specific issues in the domains of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, constitutionalism, the universality of human rights, animal rights, democracy and terrorism. What unites them is their search for an answer to the question of what values such as justice, fairness, and respect for human rights might mean. The focus on said domains ensures the societa...
EU Policy and Legal Framework for Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Related Technologies - The AI Act
2023 || Hardcover || Nikos Th. Nikolinakos || Springer International Publishing AG
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can benefit our society and economy, but also brings with it new challenges and raises legal and ethical questions. According to the author of this comprehensive analysis, it is imperative to ensure that AI is developed and applied in an appropriate legal and regulatory framework that promotes innovation and investment and, at the same time, addresses the risks associated with certain uses of AI-related technologies.
Essential to understanding the relationship bet...
The Crisis of Multilateral Legal Order
Causes, Dynamics and Implications
2022 || Hardcover || Lukasz Gruszczynski e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Multilateralism has served as a foundation for international cooperation over the past several decades. Championed after the Second World War by the United States and Western Europe, it expanded into a broader global system of governance with the end of the Cold War. Lately, an increasing number of States appear to be disappointed with the existing multilateral arrangements, both at the level of norms and that of institutions.
The great powers see unilateral and bilateral strategies, which ma...
Religion in Public Spaces
A European Perspective
2012 || Hardcover || Silvio Ferrari e.a. || Taylor & Francis
This timely volume discusses the much debated and controversial subject of the presence of religion in the public sphere. The book is divided in three sections. In the first the public/private distinction is studied mainly from a theoretical point of view, through the contributions of lawyers, philosophers and sociologists.
In the following sections their proposals are tested through the analysis of two case studies, religious dress codes and places of worship. These sections include discussi...
Shooting Incident Reconstruction
2023 || Hardcover || Michael G. Haag e.a. || Elsevier
Shooting Incident Reconstruction, Third Edition, offers a thorough explanation of matters from simple to complex to help the reader understand the factors surrounding ballistics, trajectory, and shooting scenes.
Forensic scientists, law enforcement, and crime scene investigators are often tasked with reconstruction of events based on crime scene evidence, along with the subsequent analysis of that evidence. The use and misuse of firearms to perpetrate crimes from theft to murder necessitates ...
Teaching for Impact
Critical thinking, Creative thinking and ACT Responsibility as defining features of contemporary Bildung in Academic Law Schools
2023 || Hardcover || Hedwig van Rossum || Eleven international publishing
Today’s global society – with its fast technological developments, unlimited choice, uncertainty and complexity – requires new knowledge, dispositions and abilities from academically educated legal professionals. This challenges academic legal education to reconsider its theoretical foundations, aims, curriculum and pedagogy.
This research explores how educators in legal education can contribute to the academic development of law students in contemporary times. A reinterpretation of the...