Human rights prosecutions are the most prominent mechanisms that victims demand to obtain accountability. Dealing with a legacy of gross human rights violations presents opportunities to enhance the right to justice and promote a more equal application of criminal law, a fundamental condition for a more substantive democracy in societies. This book seeks to analyse the impact, advances, and difficulties of prosecuting perpetrators of mass atrocities at national and international levels. What ...

This compilation consists of key cases and materials in the area of European Union law, selected by the Department of International and European Union law of the Erasmus University Rotterdam to use in their bachelor education. Core areas of importance covered by this compilation are the four fundamental freedoms (goods, persons, services and capital), fundamental rights and competition law (cartel prohibition, the prohibition to abuse a dominant position and the prohibition of state aid). Wha...

Saskia Sassen on her lecture 'A Third Emergent Migrant Subject Unrecognized in Law: Refugees from ‘Development’':

‘There is an emergent type of migrant not formally recognised in law. She is a kind of refugee, but not of war. Rather this is a refugee from particular forms of economic development that not only cause environmental destruction but also have expelled millions of rural smallholders from their land over the last few years.

They include mining, plantations, land grabs to expan...

The Law of Succession, which has been traditionally confined to domestic limits, is becoming a frequent topic of discussion in international forums, due to the increasing mobility of people and assets. Freedom of testation is in the centre of all initiatives tending to harmonize or at least approximate legislations in this field, even if, to date, efforts in this direction have focused on international private law. In April 2010, an international conference was held in Barcelona, where the sc...

MARE LIBERUM (De Vrije Zee) is de volkenrechtelijke term voor de internationale wateren. Zeeën en Oceanen kunnen naar hun aard niet het bezit zijn van één natie en staan daarom open voor iedereen die wil reizen of handel drijven. Hugo de Groot was in 1609 de eerste die dit als zodanig verwoordde. Mare Liberum vormt samen met het Engelse De Mare Clausum (Over de gesloten zee, waarin wordt gepleit voor het recht van oeverstaten) de basis voor het internationaal zeerecht. Het opstel is eigenl...

Het regeringsstelsel van de Verenigde Staten spreekt bijna iedereen tot de verbeelding. Amerika heeft de oudste geschreven grondwet ter wereld en het regeringsstelsel functioneert in het algemeen naar behoren. Zowel in een jaar van verkiezingen (2020) als in de tussenliggende periodes is het boeiend om te zien hoe deze grote democratie bestuurd

wordt vanuit Washington DC, zeker nu Donald Trump President is. In dit boek wordt uitvoerig ingegaan op de werking van het Amerikaanse regeringsstelse...

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...