About the 8th Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture, Michael Fakhri writes:

“Drawing on my work as Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and my upcoming report to the Human Rights Council, I will outline a way out. I will explain how systems not only produce food but also amplify and produce forms of violence that make people more poor, vulnerable, and marginalised. I also describe how food systems rely on a global economy of dependency and extractivism.

In sum, food systems are part of a cycle b...

This compilation consists of key cases and materials in the area of European Union law, selected by the Department of International and European Union law of the Erasmus University Rotterdam to use in their bachelor education. Core areas of importance covered by this compilation are the four fundamental freedoms (goods, persons, services and capital), fundamental rights and competition law (cartel prohibition, the prohibition to abuse a dominant position and the prohibition of state aid). Wha...

About the book

This concise book, now in its 4th edition, is mainly intended to be used as an introduction to the rules of private international law belonging to the legal system of the European Union. It provides legal practitioners with an overview of this highly complex field of law and can serve as an introductory textbook in elective undergraduate courses and master programs offered today by many law schools both to their own students and to exchange students from other countries. The bo...

Het mededingingsrecht behoort tot de kern van het beleid van de Europese Unie. Europese integratie is voor een groot gedeelte marktintegratie. Rivaliteit tussen onderneming in de Europese arena moet leiden tot meer consumentenwelvaart op de interne markt van de EU. De toepassing en handhaving van het EU-mededingingsrecht zijn krachtig ter hand genomen door de Europese Commissie in de loop van de jaren. Toch staan de Europese regels voor de concurrentie niet op zichzelf. Ook de lidstaten hebbe...

De UvA-studenteneditie Internationaal en Europees recht bestaat uit een aantal geselecteerde hoofdstukken uit Kern van het internationaal publiekrecht (negende druk, ISBN 978-94-6290-912-0) en Kern van het Europees recht (tweede druk, ISBN 978-94-6290-913-7) en wordt gebruikt in het onderwijs aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam.

De hoofdstuknummering en verwijzingen zijn ongewijzigd gebleven. Dit betekent dat er verwijzingen zijn naar hoofdstukken uit de boeken die niet in deze uitgave zijn opg...

Many of the contemporary global environmental problems are rooted in overexploitation of natural resources. This research looks at over-exploitation and a lack of circularity in the context of the agricultural food system. Despite biotechnological methods being available for the recovery of nutrients and organic matter from waste streams, many of these have not yet been applied to their full potential in the EU. The research identifies legislative gaps and analyses how these may be hampering ...

All legal texts tell us stories, in many ways. What stories, what narratives, can be found in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union? This book invites the reader to think of the world of EU law as a creative process. From such a perspective, the adjudicative praxis of the Court is an intellectual, cultural, literary activity, in which the reader can imagine him- or herself participating.

The author develops a novel hermeneutic methodology to examine the textual performanc...

This book acts as a guide to companies doing business with parties in the European Union. It provides the reader with answers to key questions of private international law. When and under which conditions can the court(s) of an EU Member State assume jurisdiction and which law will be applied? Will the resulting judgment be recognised and enforced in other EU Member States?

In addition to a general explanation of the system of private international law in the EU Member States, the book provid...

Human rights prosecutions are the most prominent mechanisms that victims demand to obtain accountability. Dealing with a legacy of gross human rights violations presents opportunities to enhance the right to justice and promote a more equal application of criminal law, a fundamental condition for a more substantive democracy in societies. This book seeks to analyse the impact, advances, and difficulties of prosecuting perpetrators of mass atrocities at national and international levels. What ...