De Vakgroep Privaatrecht en Notarieel Recht van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen organiseerde op 5 oktober 2015 voor de negende keer het Gronings Letselschadecongres, onder het thema Letselschade en Europa; Internationale invloeden op de Nederlandse letselschadepraktijk. Dit boek bevat de geactualiseerde bijdragen van de sprekers tijdens dit congres.

De sprekers gaan in op onderwerpen als de betekenis van het EVRM voor de letselschadepraktijk, de 'harde' invloed uit 'Brussel' en de softe invlo...

This compilation consists of key cases and materials in the area of public international 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 law of treaties, state responsibility, the use of force, international criminal law, human rights law, law of immunities, international economic law, and dispute settlement.

What makes this book unique i...

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...

Saskia Sassen on her lecture 'A Third Emergent Migrant Subject Unrecognized in Law: Refugees from ‘Development’':

‘There is an emergent type of migrant not formally recognised in law. She is a kind of refugee, but not of war. Rather this is a refugee from particular forms of economic development that not only cause environmental destruction but also have expelled millions of rural smallholders from their land over the last few years.

They include mining, plantations, land grabs to expan...

The Law of Succession, which has been traditionally confined to domestic limits, is becoming a frequent topic of discussion in international forums, due to the increasing mobility of people and assets. Freedom of testation is in the centre of all initiatives tending to harmonize or at least approximate legislations in this field, even if, to date, efforts in this direction have focused on international private law. In April 2010, an international conference was held in Barcelona, where the sc...

MARE LIBERUM (De Vrije Zee) is de volkenrechtelijke term voor de internationale wateren. Zeeën en Oceanen kunnen naar hun aard niet het bezit zijn van één natie en staan daarom open voor iedereen die wil reizen of handel drijven. Hugo de Groot was in 1609 de eerste die dit als zodanig verwoordde. Mare Liberum vormt samen met het Engelse De Mare Clausum (Over de gesloten zee, waarin wordt gepleit voor het recht van oeverstaten) de basis voor het internationaal zeerecht. Het opstel is eigenl...

The acquisition of a plot of land is a complex legal transaction. When a foreign element is added to this transaction, the complexity inevitably increases. In the interest of promoting the proper functioning of the EU internal market, this study investigates how this complexity can be reduced. To this end, it offers an in-depth study ofthe land registration systems ofthe Netherlands, Germany, and England & Wales to understand how differentland registration systems unfold in legal practice. It...