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This book draws lessons from Europe on how certain human rights can empower individuals, local communities and environmental NGOs in order to enhance their role in conserving protected areas in China.

Managing scarcity to serve the public interest is a classic government task. An important way to execute this task is by allocating individual rights that are only available in limited quantities, such as CO2 emission allowances, gambling licences, subsidies, radio frequencies, public contracts and parking permits.

This book offers a selection of the contributions presented at the EELF Conference.

The book contains a comparative analysis of mutual recognition in the internal market and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. It assesses mutual recognition in the context of the aims of both areas, the principles of European law and norms laid down in primary and secondary EU law.

Risk taking in business contributes towards innovation while excessive risk taking is associated with corporate failure. This book illustrates how insurance against personal liability of the manager threatens but also benefits society and the economy

Regional integration systems are becoming increasingly important. This book analyses how regional integration systems all over the world might be able to act as defenders or promoters of democracy, rule of law and the respect for human rights among their members.

Property Law Perspectives IV shows that attention is still being paid to the roots of property law.

This book analyses the theory of efficient breach in English sales law, European Union contract law and Chinese contract law. It analyses the framework of the efficient breach theory and reconsiders the implications of this theory.

The book presents a proposal for a harmonised European liability regime and discusses possibilities to enhance the feasibility of such a reform. It calls for a stronger involvement of the public in the nuclear sector and emphasises the intrinsic link between effective safety regulation and liability and compensation mechanisms.

Technological and economical developments require contracting parties to be informed and advised. This book analyses several aspects of these information and notification duties.

The global financial crisis sparked debates about the role that financial sector regulators played and prompted policy reforms. This book focuses on the question of what accountability, independence, transparency and governance mechanisms can better contribute to building responsive, responsible and effective regulatory and supervisory frameworks.

This book discusses the impact of regulations and supervision on banks' performance, focusing on two emerging market economies, Turkey and Russia.

It may seem dangerous to express oneself on the future of labour law, since it is widely considered to be in crisis by scholars of the field. The objective of this book is to draw attention to a number of phenomena and processes both within and outside the law that affect the protective mechanisms and essential functions of labour law.

What lessons can we learn from history, and more importantly: how? Efficient transitional justice policy evaluation requires, inter alia, an historical dimension. Nevertheless, history as a profession remains somewhat absent in transitional justice. This volume searches for synergies between historical research and transitional justice.

This book on Legal Education was written based upon many of the author's experiences as professor and dean. It focuses on many issues such as teaching itself, employability, mission and focus of law schools, the future of law schools in this age of internationalisation, student intake, the link with the labour markets and many other issues.

This book argues that motives for committing breach of contract should matter in the application of remedies in contract. Deliberate breach of contract requires a different and sterner answer from the law of contract than any other breach of contract.

This volume focuses on comparative and international family law in Europe in their respective cultural contexts. It addresses the new Principles of European Family Law regarding Property Relations between Spouses, the proposed EU private international law regulations for spouses and registered partners and the laws of a growing number of countries.

This empirical study of the procedural rights of suspects in four EU jurisdictions - France, Scotland, the Netherlands and England and Wales - focuses on the right to interpretation and translation; the right to information and the letter of rights; and the right to legal assistance before and during police interrogation.

The famous "Kadi" cases have generated a wealth of articles on the EU implementation of UN Security Council sanctions. Less attention is given to the legal problems involved in the EU's own sanctions system. The subject is nevertheless topical since there is a growing use of sanctions and the legal basis has been changed with the Lisbon treaty.

For decades, the EU has developed a system of criminal justice consistent with the mixed (sometimes contradictory) tendencies embedded in its very own structure. The Lisbon Treaty consolidated some federal elements that have an impact in the future development of this area of law.

This book, with carefully selected contributions from many prominent scholars and practitioners, is the first to explore situations in which human rights are threatened or violated through the actions, operations or policies of international organizations in a comprehensive manner and to examine the accountability mechanisms that are available.