Het samenbrengen van het milieuhygiënerecht, het ruimtelijk bestuursrecht, het natuurbeschermingsrecht en het waterrecht onder één Nederlands verzamelbegrip ‘omgevingsrecht’, met bijzondere nadruk op de samenhang tussen al deze rechtsgebieden, biedt veel uitdagingen, ook en vooral in het Vlaams Gewest. Het Europees omgevingsrecht drukt een steeds grotere stempel op het nationaal/regionaal omgevingsrecht. Vlaanderen/België en Nederland worden, als twee Lid-Staten van de Europese Unie, met hetzelfde Europees omgevingsrecht geconfronteerd en met dezelfde verplichting om Europese richtlijnen tijdig en correct in hun respectieve rechtsordes te implementeren. Het opzet van dit boek bestaat erin het Vlaams omgevingsrecht op hoofdlijnen te ontsluiten voor het Nederlands taalgebied, vanuit een stille hoop dat het (Europees getint) Nederlands en Vlaams omgevingsrecht elkaar ergens zullen ontmoeten. Om de gelijkenissen en verschillen tussen het Nederlands en Vlaams omgevingsrecht optimaal tot uiting te laten komen, heeft dit boek een gelijkaardige structuur als het eveneens door Europa Law Publishing uitgegeven boek ‘Omgevingsrecht’ van de Nederlandse auteurs Marlon Boeve, Frank Groothuijse en Valérie van ’t Lam.

Details Vlaams omgevingsrecht auteurs Isabelle Larmuseau, Peter De Smedt, Bert Roelandts publicatie september 2010 uitvoering paperback, 184p isbn 9789089520975 prijs €36

Dit boek bevat de schriftelijke bijdragen van de sprekers van de studiedag ‘Duurzame energie, juridische kansen en belemmeringen’, die op 10 december 2009 werd georganiseerd door het Centrum voor Milieurecht. Behalve een actualiteitenartikel over de relatie afval en duurzame energie, zijn ook de tijdens de studiedag gevoerde discussies opgenomen in het boek. Aanleiding voor voormeld onderwerp van de studiedag was de in de zomer van 2009 aangenomen richtlijn 2009/28/EG inzake hernieuwbare energie. In deze richtlijn is voor het eerst een bindend streefcijfer voor duurzame energie opgenomen voor de Lidstaten. Deze richtlijn maakt onderdeel uit van het omvangrijke EU-klimaatpakket van 2008 met de ambitieuze doelstellingen tegen 2020 voor zowel de CO2-uitstoot als energiebesparing (beide 20%). Ook andere EU regelgeving die relevant is voor duurzame energie (en energie-efficiëntie) is in de korte periode 2008-2010 zowel voorgesteld als aangenomen, zoals de Eco-designrichtlijn, de Richtlijn inzake energieprestaties van gebouwen en de derde Elektriciteitsrichtlijn. Doel van de studiedag was om diverse juridische aspecten in beeld te brengen die spelen bij het behalen van de Europese (en Nederlandse) doelstellingen inzake duurzame energie (en energie-efficiëntie). De bijdragen in het boek belichten daarom het onderwerp vanuit verschillende kanten. Het begrip en onderwerp ‘duurzame energie’ wordt uitgelegd en vooral belicht vanuit het Europese recht, de EU regelgeving inzake staatsteun. Vervolgens wordt ingegaan op diverse juridische subthema’s die spelen bij duurzame energie: voorrang op het elektriciteitsnet, wind op land, wind op zee, duurzame energie en energiebesparing in gebouwen, duurzame energie en afval, en lokale duurzame energie initiatieven.

Details Duurzame energie – Juridische kansen en belemmeringen redactie drs. B. Krot en mr. L. Smorenburg–van Middelkoop publicatie augustus 2010 reeks Centrum voor Milieurecht uitvoering paperback, 220p isbn 9789089520920 prijs €38

This book aims at providing the Legal Masters student throughout Europe’s universities with a thorough selection of case law that would be of direct help when studying the subject for the first time. The primary criterion for selection has been whether a particular case has contributed to the development of one of the doctrines or notions that are so important to the understanding of EU competition law. All cases and decisions have been incorporated with their key recitals and texts only, so as to make the amount of text digestible in the context of an introductory course in EU competition law. Furthermore, for each case there is the mention of its relevance within the legal system and each case is accompanied with a short summary of its facts and circumstances. The sequence of cases follows the logic order in which EU competition law may or, in the author’s view, should be taught. Wherever of practical use to the reader, cross-references are being made, be these of a general nature for a specific chapter as a whole or for a single specific case. These cross-references refer to relevant sources in EU secondary legislation and Commission Notices, to a selection of further cases on the same issue, to leading scholarly articles on the subject and to interesting annotations adding to the understanding of a particular case. In this way, the book offers the possibility for further study and reading to those who would find this necessary without burdening the students with extra and extensive obligatory reading material, which would go beyond the scope of their course format. As such the book also provides the young legal practitioner or in-house counsel with invaluable and time-saving background information in this important field of the law.
All texts in this third edition are in conformity with the new Article numbering and the terminology as used in the Treaty of Lisbon.

Prof. Vogelaar is emeritus professor of Economic Regulation with emphasis on EU and Netherlands’ competition law at the Law Faculty of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. After his retirement, he continues to be a research fellow at the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics, ACLE, of that same University.
 

Details The EU Competition Rules; Landmark Cases of the EU Courts and the European Commission (second edition) author Prof. F.O.W. Vogelaar, University of Amsterdam publication August 2010 binding paperback, 432p isbn 9789089520913 price €38, $60

Over the past decades globalisation has stirred a number of positive and negative developments in national and international environments. An important feature of globalisation is the rise of the economic, social, cultural and political power of corporations. As there is an urgent need for practical and victims-oriented solutions hic et nunc in the area of human rights and business, this book concentrates on fundamental human rights, rather than on human rights more generally. This study argues that corporations have normative obligations in relation to fundamental human rights, for which there possibly appears to exist a value consensus across different cultures and societies around the world. This study argues that the normative thrust of fundamental human rights obligations of corporations derives primarily from national legal orders and secondarily from the international level, whereas both draw their foundations from an international value system. Thirdly, this book argues that corporate human rights obligations may also derive from corporate unilateral commitments. It argues that corporations should be held accountable for violations of human rights law. This book proposes a normative framework of corporate obligations to respect, protect and fulfil fundamental human rights. It employs a holistic approach to corporate responsibility for fundamental human rights, which identifies a three-fold responsibility for corporate human rights violations: corporate, individual and state responsibility. It argues for concurrence between corporate, individual and state responsibility, where possible. Such an approach also maintains a victims-oriented perspective. As important as identifying corporate obligations is the question of how one can respond to corporate human rights violations. As international mechanisms are often non-effective, and even non-existent, the provision of effective remedies for victims of corporate human rights violations, this book argues, rests within the national normative frameworks. The investigation into the current framework exposes the stark reality of a need for more clarity in respect of the obligations and responsibilities of a corporation. This book therefore makes recommendations on how to improve the normative framework for corporate responsibility for fundamental human rights.

Jernej Letnar Černič is a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute. He completed his doctorate in 2009 at the School of Law, University of Aberdeen. Jernej has worked in the European Ombudsman’s Office, the Superior Court of the Republic of Slovenia, the Law Institute in Ljubljana, the International Criminal Court and the University of Aberdeen. His research interests are in human rights law, business and human rights, investment law, international criminal law, transitional justice and criminal law. Jernej is a member of the International Human Rights Committee of the International Law Association.

Details Human Rights Law and Business; Corporate Responsibility for Fundamental Human Rights author Jernej Letnar Černič publication July 2010 binding paperback, 326p isbn 978-90-8952-081-4 price €60, $90

The Maastricht Law Faculty is known for its outstanding expertise in the field of European and comparative law, and it attaches great importance to comparative legal studies in its teaching. This selection of national, European and international legal provisions, which have proven to be particularly relevant in comparative legal studies, aims to help students, academics and practitioners in their comparative law work. This second edition is an expanded and updated volume. It covers the areas of constitutional law, administrative law and administrative procedure, criminal justice, European and international human rights law, property law, tort law, national and European contract law, civil procedure, private international law, company law, international business law and international tax law. For each area, a selection of important legal provisions from France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom is provided. This includes domestic constitutional and statutory provisions, provisions from international treaties and instruments of the European Union. In addition, selected sources from the United States are provided. Sources are reproduced in the original English or are rendered as fresh English translations under critical editorship. Unlike many other translations, The Maastricht Collection remains true to the content, style and syntax of the original texts. This allows the reader to appreciate not only the substance but also the authentic form – and the beauty – of foreign legal sources. The constitutional law provisions from The Maastricht Collection are also published in a separate volume.

Details Selected National, European and International Provisions from Public and Private Law; The Maastricht Collection (second edition) editors Dr. Philipp Kiiver & Dr. Nicole Kornet publication September 2010 binding paperback, 929p isbn 9789089520937 price €54 $72

About the book
The book collects the proceeding of an international conference at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa (16-17 January 2010). Do national judges start treating the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights the same way they treat the EC law’s norms? In order to answer this question the editors (Giuseppe Martinico and Oreste Pollicino) involved scholars from the countries that are members both of the EU and the Council of Europe.
About the editors
Giuseppe Martinico obtained a PhD in EU Constitutional law from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, where he is also conducting his post-doctoral research. His research focuses on the techniques of judicial dialogue among Courts in the multilevel system. He is currently Lecturer in Law at the University of Pisa (Center for Peace Studies), teaching “Legal Issues in Cooperation for development”. Oreste Pollicino is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Bocconi University, Milan; he was educated at the University of Messina, Bologna University, College of Europe (Bruges) and State University (Milan), where he obtained his PhD. His research focuses on European Constitutional Law. 

Details The National Judicial  Treatment of the ECHR and EU Laws. A Comparative Constitutional Perspective editors Giuseppe Martinico, Oreste Pollicino publication July 2010 binding paperback, 511p isbn 978-90-8952-069-2 price €75 $115

As fish stocks continue to decline worldwide, coastal states seem to have largely failed in managing fisheries in their EEZs effectively. This study examines the international legal principles for effective EEZ fisheries management, and undertakes to assess their domestic implementation in a comparative perspective. The 1982 UNCLOS as well as general international law provide a useful range of norms for sustainable EEZ fisheries management, if carefully interpreted. These include the coastal state’s obligation to ensure that the maintenance of the living resources in its EEZ is not endangered by over-exploitation; the duty to maintain or restore populations of target species at sustainable levels; the determination of catch limits for stocks affected by exploitation; and the duty to apply the precautionary approach. In addition to such environmental requirements, issues of distributive justice and procedural fairness are also included in the analysis. The second part of the study evaluates the implementation of the international legal standards in five selected coastal states (Kenya, Namibia, Indonesia, Brazil and Mexico) and the EC. It focuses on the determination of total allowable catch, the allocation of individual fishing authorisations, and the regulation of foreign access to EEZ fisheries as exemplary management measures.

Details The International Law of EEZ Fisheries; Principles and Implementation author Marion Markowski publication June 2010 binding paperback, 172p isbn 978-90-8952-004-3 price €40, $65

This book is devoted to the study of the Europeanization of Spanish administrative law and its scope results, therefore, from the intersection of two basic notions. On the one hand, Europeanization is here understood as a top-down process of innovation suffered by national law as an outcome of the structural principles which govern the relations between European and national systems. On the other hand, the book focuses on some of the most important institutions of Spanish general administrative law in order to give a wide and comprehensive insight into the transformations of the system, going thus beyond the description of the transformations experienced by the regulation of concrete sectors of administrative action. Specifically, regulation of administrative procedure, case law on the right to good administration, public procurement law, public services regulation, interim measures in judicial review and the evolution of administrative sanctions are the main topics with which the book deals.

Details Spanish Administrative Law under European Influence editors Luis Ortega, Luis Arroyo, Carmen Plaza publication May 2010 binding paperpack, 205p series European Administrative Law Series (4) isbn 978-90-8952-083-8 price €49, $72

Social security systems are experiencing a profound change all over Europe, due to internal as well as to external reasons: changes in society, in the labour markets and globalisation. The normative dimension of these changes is often overlooked. This book takes the first step in filling the gap, concentrating on security as a general principle of European social security law (GPSoc), explaining what this principle means and how it works. It reflects the way in which legal comparison can be used to gain a better understanding of social security law. It brings together detailed reports from 14 European countries. And it analyses the effects of security on legislative, as well as on administrative, action. By so doing, it not only provides detailed information about the institutions and the instruments through which social security works in practice, but also offers a better understanding of its normative basis. This basis is fundamental: It explains the role which social security plays in modern societies, since it is, after all, a core element of the nation state which holds these societies together in times in which they can no longer be based on religion or social class.

The editors are well-known, experienced specialists in social security law. Ulrich Becker is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law in Munich and Professor at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University in Munich; Danny Pieters is Secretary-General of the European Institute of Social Security and Chair of Social Security Law at the University of Leuven; Friso Ross is Professor of Law, Faculty of Social Work, at the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences; Paul Schoukens is Professor of Social Security Law at the University of Leuven.

Details Security: A General Principle of Social Security Law in Europe editors Ulrich Becker, Danny Pieters, Friso Ross, Paul Schoukens publication May 2010 binding paperback, 649p isbn 978-90-8952-063-0 price €90, $135

This volume contains important constitutional and legislative texts from the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, as well as provisions from the European Convention on Human Rights and the Treaty on European Union. It helps students to work with, and to cite, written sources of constitutional law from various systems. All texts are reproduced in the original or authentic English or are freshly translated into English under critical editorship. Unlike many other translations, this volume remains true to the content, style and syntax of the original texts. This allows the reader to appreciate not only the substance but also the authentic form – and the beauty of old-fashioned or cryptic language – of constitutional sources. This second edition not only updates but also expands the first edition. Provisions that had been omitted, for editorial reasons, in the first edition are now included. The Constitutions of the US, France and Germany, the Charter and Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the European Convention on Human Rights are now rendered in full; the French Declaration of 1789 as well as selected institutional provisions from the Treaty on European Union have been added. Selected provisions from electoral codes and UK legislation are again included.
The Maastricht Collection, a larger compilation of legal provisions which is also published by Europa Law Publishing, covers not only public law but also private law.
Philipp Kiiver is Associate Professor of European and Comparative Constitutional Law at Maastricht University.

The book presents in a comprehensive fashion European film policies in the context of both EU and international law. It relies on a broad survey of national and EU film policy measures, the EU practice in the areas of state aid, antitrust and merger law with respect to the sector and the application of international trade law to film policy instruments. These three different bodies of law are systematically analysed to assess how cultural policy considerations underlying film policy can be married to market forces. The EU experience is studied in depth as the book argues that it can effectively serve as a model to reconcile these sometimes conflicting goals in the global trade arena. This justifies the attention paid to the way in which cultural objectives of film policies are accommodated within the EU competition law framework. The book contributes valuably to the current debate on cultural diversity and free trade by providing a more harmonious if not a symbiotic vision of this relationship

Details European Film Policies in EU and International Law author Dr. Anna Herold publication January 2010 binding hardback, 436p isbn 978-90-8952-002-9 price €89, $150.

The process of fragmentation of the international legal order and the absence of constitutional devices governing the connections between the various legal regimes can be reduced to a rational picture only through the activity of the judges. Against this background, the judges play a crucial role in creating connections between legal regimes and proceedings. The metaphor of dialogue has been vastly used by the literature and this concept was variously understood in different meanings: vehicle for transplants, informal way of communication between judicial and political bodies, new paradigm of judicial relations between actors not belonging to the same legal order. Starting from this assumption we attempted to put together scholars belonging to different fields of research (Constitutional Law, EU Law, WTO Law, Public International Law, Jurisprudence) in order to carry out a comprehensive appraisal of this phenomenon, and to provide a wide picture of the latest development of the role of the judges in the international legal order.

Details Shaping Rule of Law Through Dialogue; International and Supranational Experiences editors Filippo Fontanelli, Giuseppe Martinico & Paolo Carrozza publication November 2009 binding paperback, 433p isbn 978-90-8952-057-9 price €68, $115