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...

This first volume in the Monitoring Children’s Rights in the Netherlands series pays tribute to the 30th anniversary of the CRC and includes a report on the rights of children in the Netherlands, presenting key facts and figures relating to the rights of children. The report shows that there are significant concerns relating to discrimination, exclusion and disparities in the implementation of children’s rights in the Netherlands. It also demonstrates that there are reasons for concern wi...

Six years of ERI Sector Plan Law Research in Utrecht: Cross-pollination through collaboration is a volume created to showcase and celebrate the work accomplished under the Utrecht Law Sector Plan. Since the start of the first Sector Plan Law in September 2019, researchers have engaged in innovative research and intensive collaboration on socially relevant topics. The research has focused on two main themes: Institutions for Conflict Resolution and Empirical Legal Research. These two themes ha...

On Friday June 21st 2024, the Spring Meeting of the Dutch Procedural Law Association (NVvP) will take place, with the topic ‘Fact-finding in Civil Procedures’. The speakers will be: Judge C.J-A. Seinen (Judge at the District Court of The Hague and PhD candidate in Civil Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam); Prof. C. Gomille (Professor of Civil Law, European and International Private Law and Civil Procedure at the University of Saarland); Prof. W. Vandenbussche (Professor of Civil Proc...

The award of public contracts has to comply with among others the principle proportionality. In many instances during the tender procedure the contracting authorities has to pay particular attention to the principle of proportionality. Think of the following topics: suitability requirements, requirements relating to financial and economic strength, requirements relating to technical and professional skill, selection criteria, requirements for consortiums and the award criteria.

For many civil...

Trademark law has been harmonised to a very high level in the European Union. Still, we have to deal with national trademarks and Community trademarks which exist side by side. Having two seperate systems leads to frictions between harmonised and Community trademark law.

Many of the issues that we are currently faced with are discussed in the inaugual lecture of Tobias Cohen Jehoram, presented on 13 January 2011, accepting his position as Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Erasmus...

In the Netherlands, the structure of alternative dispute resolutionin the area of financial services has changed considerably in 2007.

Existing schemes for ADR have merged into a new institution, the Financial Services Complaints Tribunal (KiFiD). This book describes the development of KiFiD within the framework of European rules for ADR and mediation, and article 6 of the European Convention (Human Rights), and compares its structure with developments in the UK, Germany and Spain regarding A...