The Maastricht Collection comprises a broad selection of legal instruments and provisions that have proven to be particularly relevant and useful to students and practitioners of international, European, and comparative law. The compilation is based on the long-standing expertise in teaching and researching European, international, and comparative national law at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Law. It includes codes and statutory legislation from France, Germany, the Netherlands, and th...

Provides an introduction to the subject that helps media, journalism and law students understand key concepts and aid their revision. This book covers the established principles and developments in media law, including privacy and confidentiality, defamation, contempt of court, reporting restrictions, freedom of expression, and more.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 66th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space held in October 2023 in Baku, Azerbaijan, as well as the report of the IISL Standing Committee on the Status of International Agreements Relating to Activities in Outer Space.

Een belangrijke verandering in het recht in de afgelopen twee à drie decennia is de opmars van de gelaagde rechtsorde. Dit houdt in dat internationaal recht en transnationaal recht een steeds grotere rol spelen binnen Nederland. Deze ontwikkeling heeft invloed op traditionele onderwerpen, zoals de rechtsbronnen, indelingen in het recht (publiekrecht en privaatrecht, nationaal recht en internationaal recht), voorrangsregels en de techniek van rechterlijke rechtsvorming. Bovendien oefent de ge...

Diplomacy is a series of crises, and the navigational beacon for a nation is international law. This book is a collection of articles on six selected international legal issues concerning Japan. It addresses various issues, including self-defence, post-war legal issues, chemical weapons, the law of the sea, consular immunities, and hijacking. It is a legal documentary through which the reader can look into the minds of Japanese officials challenged by one crisis after another.

As a coherent wh...

The Aarhus Convention entered into force more than 20 years ago. It lays down the pillars of environmental democracy, that is a governance systems where citizens and civil society organisations are fully involved in the decisions affecting the environment we all live in. On the one hand the Convention drew on the experience of those jurisdictions where environmental concerns run deeper. On the other hand, once enacted, it was expected to bring about important changes in those jurisdictions wh...

Het doel van dit boek is om de complexe materie van het Europees recht toegankelijk te maken voor studenten die zich bevinden in de eerste fase van de studie rechten. De auteurs beperken zich tot het beschrijven en uitleggen van de kern van een aantal Europeesrechtelijke onderwerpen die voor een goed begrip van het Unierecht onmisbaar zijn. Het boek is gemakkelijk leesbaar en bevat veel voorbeelden. Daarmee is het zeer geschikt voor inleidende cursussen in het hoger onderwijs. Deze derde druk...

In pluralist societies, corporate religious freedom might confl ict with other fundamental rights. Corporate piety might collide with LGBT rights, notably when a company’s management does not accept, either as em ployees or clients, individuals whom it believes to have ‘sinful’ sexual orientations. Secular companies may want to keep religion out of the workplace altogether, thus affecting individual religious freedom of employees.

In this contribution, Jeroen Temperman engages with such...

The adjective “private” in Private International Law (PIL) distinguishes PIL from its public international sibling but also confines its scope to horizontal disputes between parties otherthan states acting as such. But does this mean thatthese disputes implicate only the interests ofthe immediate parties and not the interests of the states involved in the conflict? The classical and still prevailing view of PIL answers this question in the affirmative. A contrary view, usually associated ...