Advancing the Right to Health Care in China analyses the role of accountability, a Western concept that has recently been introduced to China, in advancing the right to health care in light of China’s unique political, legal and social background.

States increasingly delegate regulatory and police functions to internet intermediaries. This may lead to interference with the right to freedom of expression. In a time when these issues are of particular relevance, Intermediary liability and freedom of expression in the EU provides the reader with a framework to protect the freedom of expression in an online world.

This volume includes chapters on “Developments in EU Energy Law”, “Renewable Energy: Cross-border Projects and Dispute Settlement”, “Capacity Reserve Mechanism”, “Prosumers”, and “New Developments in the European Gas Market”.

This book is a collection of peer reviewed contributions addressing various legal aspects of sustainable management of natural resources. Natural resources are in this book understood in broad terms encompassing biodiversity, water, air and soil, as well as raw materials.

European Libraries and the Internet: Copyright and Extended Collective Licences examines libraries’ online use of in-copyright works from their collections and how such use is affected by copyright. In particular, the book examines whether the system of extended collective licences could facilitate online access without territorial limitations to in-copyright works in libraries, within Europe or more specifically within the European Economic A...

“Immigration has emerged as the defining issue of our times. […] The challenge that the immigration issue poses to the future of European democracy is real. Immigration itself is a genuine challenge, but the fundamental challenge that immigration brings to the fore is a domestic one, it is about fundamentally different political visions that cut through the citizenry of Europe’s nation states. With that, it becomes critically important how the...

In times of the proclaimed “refugee crisis” this book aims to shed light on human rights and refugee law responsibilities of EU member states and other relevant actors when engaging in border control measures beyond the territory of the EU.

In dit boek worden voor het eerst in Vlaanderen alle aspecten van de verkavelingsoperatie bij elkaar gebracht door een multidisciplinair team van gedegen experten. Het boek is tot stand gekomen op een scharniermoment in de wetgeving, namelijk het invoeren van de omgevingsvergunning. De auteurs hebben daar rekening mee gehouden, zodat het voorliggende boek een werkinstrument is in de meest recente stand van de wetgeving.

'Procedural Environmental Rights: Principle X in Theory and Practice' provides an overview of various aspects of the current status, development and practice of rights of access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters following their codification as non-binding principles in Principle X of the Rio Declaration.