This volume is the eighth instalment in the Property Law Perspectives Series. Produced by the Young Property Lawyers' Forum (www.yplf.net), a global network of early career property law scholars, this volume presents the carefully curated highlights of two consecutive conferences held virtually in 2021 and 2022. A broad range of property law topics are covered in this book within the three themes of `Property and Sustainability', `Property and Society in Extraordinary Times', and `Property La...

Landownership is a cornerstone of our economic and social system, as it enables people to lead self-fulfilling lives by allowing them to participate in human activities. It also provides the necessary security for long-term investment and economic development. These purposes are undermined when non-owners acquire the ownership of land against the owner’s wishes. Yet, both acquisitive prescription and adverse possession deprive owners of their property against their will.

This book offers fr...

Provides students with an integrated framework for understanding the US criminal justice system with a diverse and inclusive interdisciplinary approach and thematic focus. In this title, material from the social sciences is incorporated to highlight the intersection between criminal law and key social issues.

This book examines confidentiality, secrecy and privilege issues in insolvency proceedings for corporates and banks. It attempts to fill the gap that the authors have identified. Bankruptcy and insolvency legal research, in particular, seem to lack clear definitions, incomplete laws and cases with respect to the application of these three themes in corporate insolvency and bank resolution proceedings. Moreover, there are still inconsistent views and opinions of judicial authorities across dif...

Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd in een veranderende wereld. In Europa wordt klimaatverandering gezien als een urgent probleem dat snelle oplossingen behoeft. De Europese Commissie heeft in beleidsplan EU2020 een strategie geformuleerd voor een duurzame omslag. Er zijn nieuwe technologieën nodig om duurzaamheidsdoelen te kunnen behalen. De overheid heeft een belangrijke rol bij deze transitie en kan het versnellen, onder andere door duurzame innovaties in te kopen.

Deze opgave vraagt een nieuwe m...

English translation of the Dutch 'Uniforme Administratieve voorwaarden voor de uitvoering van werken en technische installatie werken 2012 (UAV 2012).

Translators: F.C. Compton-Reimer, H.C.S. Warendorf, LL.M and O. Sluizer.

The law of property provides the building blocks for our market economy and is a manifestation of our post French and American Revolution thinking on how we want to organise ourselves. That organisational structure has not always been fair or equal around the world. European property law systems have been exported around the globe, yet outside of Europe things have been possible, such as owning another person (slavery) or extracting wealth from land at all costs. This was unthinkable on the E...

Lawyers are taught to work with applicable law and to be familiar with the applicable law, they should 'keep up to date with their literature'. Here, in two sentences, the reality and ways of working of lawyers throughout the past century. Past because, in contemporary times, applicable law can no longer be easily 'recognised'. There is a knowing problem related to applicable law of European origin. This problem consists in two main questions: How are lawyers to know what applicable law is? A...

The book offers a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the issue of property rights protection in Europe. This approach explores the tensions between the European and the national level. This is done by highlighting the different understanding of the constitutional role of property within different legal cultures and legal orders. The interaction and dialogue between national law and supranational human rights law in the area of property law is therefore at the centre of the work. Th...