This Research Guide focuses on how to find and use instruments of international organizations and is mainly intended to be a practical instrument for students at an advanced level, lawyers and public servants. It offers a detailed description on how to do research in sources of international law in the most efficient way.

This book analyses the background, scope and practical impact of bilateral treaties and multilateral conventions concluded by selected Member States of the European Union with Third States, both from the European and the Third State perspective.

This volume explores how differences between tort and contract affect the foundations of liability, the nature and amount of the compensation, the extent of liability and whether defences and limitation periods corresponding to the distinct causes of action give rise to substantially different outcomes.

This book examines the phenomenon of surrogacy from a comparative perspective. Bringing together experts from 21 countries across the world, it provides a comprehensive discussion of the ways in which surrogacy is regulated in both Eastern and Western jurisdictions, and seeks to establish a common ground to move forward in this morally and legally difficult subject area.

A health insurance system or a taxation-funded National Health Service (NHS)? Universal healthcare provision or marketization and competition? This book explores the development of competition policy in Dutch and English healthcare in light of tensions arising from these seemingly opposed ideas.

Solvency Requirements for EU Insurers provides a unique insights into the complex world of insurance and will be useful to risk managers, actuaries, accountants, lawyers, board members of (re) insurance companies, insurance intermediaries, consultants, regulators, supervisors, academics, students and, more generally, all those involved with or interested in insurance and in the operation of the insurance market.

This volume investigates how the post-crisis supervisory regime of the EU and the Eurozone impacts on bank managers’ duties and on market transactions: in their relationship to the large range of stakeholders, including the public as such, in current lending and investment transactions, in the phase of recovery and resolution (with bail-ins triggering changes of contractual rights), but also in adjudication, namely in banking related ADR schemes.

This book shall be an introduction into the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) as an international organization and, inter alia, as a platform for its member states’ relations with the EU and for jointly negotiated Free Trade Agreements. EFTA – originally set up by the UK - is an example of how countries that do not want to be members of the EU can still have close links with it. This may serve as food for thought in the current Brexit deb...

Privaat(vermogens)recht bevat een beginselmatige studie van de basisconcepten en -beginselen van het privaatrecht. De auteurs leggen hierbij de klemtoon op het gemeen, materieel burgerlijk recht. Het boek beoogt een handige en toegankelijke leidraad te bieden voor iedereen die zich vertrouwd wil maken met de basisbegrippen en beginselen van het privaatrecht.