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.

On September 23, 1912, the Dutch Copyright Act - Auteurswet - was enacted. A century after itsenactment the Dutch law is one of the world's oldest 'living' acts of the author's rights tradition. While the Act has seen many small and large amendments since its adoption in 1912, it has never been thoroughly revised, so its conception and basic structure have remained essentially intact.This book celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the Dutch Act. It traces and assesses, for an international...

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...

In a growing number of countries, inquiries into past intercountry adoptions take place that identify systemic abuses and irregularities and conclude that adoption stakeholders encouraged or facilitated illegal intercountry adoptions. However, so far, the response from these stakeholders has been inadequate in addressing the profound human rights violations endured by those affected by illegal adoptions. Despite the growing movement of adoptees advocating for justice on behalf of themselves 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...

This book is the last book Jan Lokin wrote. Lokin had written on and off about the theme of codification throughout his career. He started writing about codification in 1984 and returned to the theme with this book. The term codification itself was coined by Jeremy Bentham. So, it is a bit of an anachronism to use the term codification in connection with the law codes of Theodosius II and Justinian, but it nevertheless describes these codes very well, as Lokin shows. He studied the two codifi...

This book gives an overview of recent developments in Turkish

family law for legal practitioners in Europe. Both the private

international law and the substantive law aspects of Turkish

family law is explained, with a special focus on the recognition

and enforcement of foreign divorce decisions (Prof. dr. Zeynep

Derya Tarman), the role of fault in divorce proceedings (Dr. Özgün

Çelebi), the dissolution of the matrimonial regime of participation

in the acquisition (Dr. Hanswerner Odendahl),...