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Eleven international publishing (44)
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Power and Authority, A Trial of Two Swords
A History of the Union of the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Sicily (1186-1250)
2023 || Hardcover || Willem J. Zwalve || Eleven international publishing
On 27 January 1186 the German king Henry VI, son and heir of the Roman Emperor Frederick I ‘Barbarossa’, married Constance of Hauteville, heir to the throne of Sicily, in the Basilica of St Ambrose in Milan. The royal wedding sealed the union of the Kingdom of Sicily and the Holy Roman Empire, creating an enormous empire stretching from the shores of the North Sea to the beaches of Africa. The union also incited a major geopolitical conflict dominating European politics in the thirteenth ...
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Models for Mediation
Survey and visuals
2019 || Paperback || Lenka Hora Adema e.a. || Eleven international publishing || met inkijkexemplaar
Most mediators are working with models - consciously or unconsciously - such as Glasl's model on Escalation, the ZOPA and the Drama Triangle, to name the best known. This book brings together almost 60 models which can be used in mediation. It includes an overview on how to apply these in practice and what its use is in a mediation. The aim of the book is to assist mediators in doing their job more effectively and thus raise the level of mediation.
Models for Mediation is a welcome contribut...
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The Protection of the Marine Environment against Alien Invasive Species
international Law and Policy Responses
2018 || Hardcover || Nora-Phoebe Erler || Eleven international publishing
Invasive alien species constitute the greatest threat to marine biodiversity after habitat destruction. The problem today is growing tremendously, as the introduction of these species is accelerated by activities related to globalisation, such as trade, transport, and tourism. The current book presents possibilities to stimulate the international regime to address the problematic alien invasive species issue. Apart from the relevant multilateral environmental treaties and soft law instruments...
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Collaboration with Justice in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Canada
A comparative study on the provision of undertakings to offenders who are willing to give evidence in the prosecution of others
2018 || Paperback || J.H. Crijns e.a. || Eleven international publishing
This book provides an in-depth examination of the instrument of collaboration with justice, one of the more far-reaching investigative tools in criminal cases by which promises are made to otherwise unwilling 'offender witnesses' in order to persuade them to testify in the prosecution of others. In it a comparison is made between the law and practice of the Netherlands and that of several other jurisdictions - Germany, Italy and Canada - in which provision is made for the instrument. Drawing ...
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Convention Constitutionalism
On the Necessity of Judicial Review for Democratic Governance
2024 || Paperback || R. Pierik || Eleven international publishing
The European Court of Human Rights has been criticized for unduly interfering in democratic decision processes. Some argue that the unelected Strasbourg activists in robes should not interfere with democratic policy decisions that were made nationally. This inaugural lecture analyses this practice of rights-based judicial review by the Strasbourg Court. The first part presents a general legal-philosophical background. It explains that republicans, who emphasize the importance of the democrati...
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The CISG Advisory Council Opinions
|| Hardcover || Ingeborg Schwenzer || Eleven international publishing
In 2016, the CISG Advisory Council celebrated its fifteenth anniversary. On this occasion, the current members of the CISG Advisory Council decided to publish a book containing all CISG Advisory Council related documents. For the first time, the original versions of all Opinions and Declarations, their annexes, and the text of the CISG are published in one book.
This book is designed to facilitate the work on and with the CISG. It enables the reader in gaining an overview of the CISG Advisory...
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Foundations and Building Blocks of Law
2018 || Paperback || Jaap Hage || Eleven international publishing
"There is no gap between Is and Ought, but there is a gap between fact and norm."
"There is a difference between legal powers and legal competences, but there are no power-conferring rules."
"There is no obligation to comply with contracts."
"There are no regulative rules, and all rules are constitutive."
All these claims are controversial in the eyes of many legal theorists. This book argues that they are all true, or justified, if understood in the proper context. The argument starts from t...
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Mepli Book on Codification
New Insights on the Codification of Private Law
2019 || Paperback || Agustin Parise e.a. || Eleven international publishing
Is it time for jurisdictions to undertake recodification, decodification, or even
codification of their private laws? This volume addresses this recurring question in
legal science by presenting recent developments and new perspectives on the
codification of private law from a comparative law viewpoint. Contributions in this
volume explore how jurisdictions from America, Asia and Europe currently stand
regarding codification and help generate awareness on different paths, yet also
of common g...
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Law, Science, Rationality
2019 || Paperback || Antonia Waltermann e.a. || Eleven international publishing
This edited volume brings together scholars in the field of law and the cognitive sciences to analyze and illustrate what the current relationship between law and the cognitive sciences is and what it should be from a theoretical perspective, for example by asking in what way and to what extent insights from the cognitive sciences can and should impact legal concepts, rules and paradigms. The topic of criminal responsibility exemplifies this relationship and several authors analyze specific e...
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Principles on Climate Obligations of Enterprises
2020 || Paperback || Expert Group on Climate Obligations of Enterprises || Eleven international publishing
Climate change is the most important challenge humankind ever faced.
GHG emissions must be reduced at great pace and to a signifi cant extent to keep
global warming below fatal thresholds. This can only be achieved if the obligations
of major players are suffi ciently clear. The Principles on Climate Obligations of
Enterprises’ main focus is on the obligations of enterprises. They identify the
reduction obligations, and articulate a series of related obligations.
The Principles aim to provi...