This book is about the history of the law faculty of the Roman Catholic (RC) University in Nijmegen, starting from its foundation in 1923. In addition to a description of the ups and downs of this faculty, it also contains portraits of the most important professors and lecturers. These portraits not only focus on their lives and work. They also deal with questions such as: What common motives did the professors and lecturers have? What role did the Catholic faith play in their work? How did t...

Corruption is generally referred to as bribery. This books deals with a different form of corruption: corruption caused by networks. Network corruption is the form of corruption in which the interaction of multiple actors within a social network results in corruption but in which the individual behaviour as such is not necessarily corrupt. The main reason for this research is that a gap appears to exist in the available theories on corruption: very little research is available on corruption b...

Dit is een Engelse vertaling en geheel geüpdatete versie van het boek Recht van de Europese Unie.

The many references, both to primary and secondary sources, and the analysis

and reflections offered throughout the book in clearly marked textboxes will aid

the more advanced student and scholar of EU law in their studies.

This textbook deals with:

- the basic principles underlying the EU legal order,

- the institutions of the Union,

- legal protection in EU law,

- the law on market integrat...

This is a collection of papers that were initially presented at the international conference, which was organized from 9th to 10th November 2018 by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) and Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. The conference was organized on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Besides the introductory address, by Ben Ferencz, one of the prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials, this volume gathers internationally renowned...

This book presents, for the first time, a systematic study of the solutions available for transferring money claims and related security rights in securitisations, using England, France and Scotland as focus jurisdictions. It adopts a dual comparative approach to determine a model solution that is most efficient for securitisations. First, it employs a functional approach to identify solutions available in the focus jurisdictions. Through this method, the book offers a comprehensive doctrinal...

Arbitration is still a time- and cost-efficient, professional way of resolving cross-border disputes. However, its advantages seem to vanish if one party is obstructive and tries to delay or even sabotage the proceedings. For example, a party may initiate state court proceedings in violation of the arbitration agreement, refuse to pay the advance on costs or fail to follow a document production order of the arbitral tribunal. This work first deals with the obligations that arise from an arbit...

In 2021, the CISG Advisory Council celebrates its twentieth anniversary. For this unique occasion the current Council members decided to publish the second edition of The CISG Advisory Council Opinions. This book contains all original Opinions and Declarations with their corresponding annexes, to which four new Opinions have been added.

The CISG Advisory Council Opinions is designed to facilitate the work on and with the The United Nations Convention on Contract for the International Sale of ...

In the aftermath of the Second World War,

Karl Popper introduced his concept of the

“open society”. Poppers focussed primarily

on communism and fascism. Nowadays,

communism and fascism have faded

away as the primary challenges for open,

democratic states, but new challenges have

come to the fore. Closed communities pose

a significant challenge and sometimes a

threat to democratic values. What are those

closed communities? This book presents

a diagnosis of those closed communit...

The Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law comprises a collection of articles written mainly by Hungarian authors, covering developments in the field of international law and EU law, and progress in the domestic implementation and application of these fields of law. The thematic chapter of Vol. 9 (2021), entitled ‘Public Health Emergency: National, European and International Law Responses’, tackles different legal aspects related to dealing with the consequences of COVID...