This book presents a rich and detailed analysis of the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It combines individual contributions that address the experience of legal incorporation in countries around the world, written by individual country experts, with comparative analysis of the international landscape from the world’s leading authorities on children’s rights incorporation.

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the choice of court and choice of law provisions that apply to cross-border family matters and succession in EU private international law.

How to choose the most beneficial enforcement regime for cross-border claims of a client? A question considerably complicated by (1) the existence of various European Union enforcement tools and (2) particularities in the national legal systems that impact on the operation and suitability of the various enforcement tools. This book compares and analyses the practical utility and potential pitfalls of the 2nd generation regulations (European En...

This book brings together a range of views on the reciprocal influences of substantive and private international law in the fields of family and succession law. It outlines some key elements of this interplay in selected jurisdictions and provides a basis for discussion and future work on the reciprocal influences of domestic and European law.

This book looks at the domestication of children’s rights through the means of constitutionalisation. Constitutionalised, children’s rights become an important frame of reference for the formulation and implementation of legislation and strengthen children’s standing before the courts. However, many leading constitutional developments remain inaccessible due to language barriers. This book is a first effort to make developments and case law mo...

Extreme weather events, resulting from anthropogenic climate change, disproportionately affect developing States such as the Caribbean and Pacific Islands, yet these states make a relatively small contribution to climate change compared to developed States and emerging markets. This book examines the legal responsibility of states with regard to post-disaster reconstruction and the duty to provide early warning from the perspective of various ...

This book analyses the emerging concept of ‘non-regression’ as a novel legal principle of international environmental law. In order to do so, it traces the development of related concepts in the framework of international human rights law and advocates their application to international environmental law using a novel approach of comparative law method.

Professor Cyrille Fijnaut maakt een doorgedreven analyse van de netwerken en de cellen die betrokken waren bij de terroristische aanslagen in Frankrijk en België (13 november 2015 en 22 maart 2016) en onderzoekt de vormen van onderlinge samenhang en verwevenheid tussen terrorisme en zware c.q. georganiseerde criminaliteit.
Dit boek geeft op basis van nauwgezet bronnenonderzoek een passend antwoord op de vraag wie deze terroristen war...

Dit boek biedt een beknopt overzicht van de beginselen van het internationaal publiekrecht. Het is geschreven met het oog op het onderwijs in het bachelorprogramma in de rechten, maar het laat zich ook hanteren als een kernachtige introductie tot het internationaal recht voor andere gebruikers: hogescholen, diplomatieke en andere professionele opleidingen, en meer algemeen voor practici, van de advocaat tot de diplomaat en de magistraat. Bijzo...