Environmental procedural rights, i.e. the right to access to information, public participation and access to justice, have become one of the means of fundamentally protecting the environment. Underfunding, inadequate financial resources, competition with other national priorities, corruption, poor implementation, limited manpower and human resources, poor coordination and cooperation among State agencies, fragmentation of laws and policies, are governmental challenges faced all over Africa, i...

This book examines the right to freedom of expression under the Cameroonian constitution and international law. It argues that the constitutional changes or reforms which have taken place in Cameroon since it gained independence, have resulted in the entrenchment of fundamental rights, including specific phrases in the preamble relating to freedom of expression. These phrases approximate to the standards provided for under international law on human rights. The book explains the extent to whi...

De bijdragen in dit Festschrift behandelen diverse onderwerpen van het binnenvaartrecht. Aan de auteurs die aan deze feestbundel hebben meegewerkt werd gevraagd hun bijdrage aan te leveren in het Nederlands, Engels, Duits of Frans, alle vier talen die Resi beheerst. Voor u ligt het resultaat van hun arbeid. De redactie hoopt dat de lezer evenals de jubilaris deze met vrucht en met plezier zal consulteren, en is ervan overtuigd dat dit Festschrift een waardevolle bijdrage zal vormen aan de rec...

Written from a comparative perspective, with an eye for international instruments and guidelines, this book deals with the particulars of international commercial arbitration. In an easily accessible manner it considers among others:

the characteristics of international commercial arbitration * the advantages and perceived disadvantages of international commercial arbitration * the pros and cons of ad hoc and institutional arbitration * the laws applicable in international commercial arbitrati...

This is a collection of papers that were initially presented at the international conference, which was organized from 9th to 10th November 2018 by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) and Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. The conference was organized on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Besides the introductory address, by Ben Ferencz, one of the prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials, this volume gathers internationally renowned...

Als enige studieboek in Nederland worden in deze nieuwe druk de gevolgen van de Brexit en de inhoud daarvan behandelt. Daarnaast zijn er meer schema’s opgenomen en is het boek voorzien van een leeslint.

Het recht van de Europese Unie mag zich in een toenemende belangstelling verheugen en is, gelet op het belang voor zowel de wetenschap als de praktijk, een verplicht onderdeel van de meeste juridische opleidingen.

Dit studieboek is in eerste instantie bestemd voor studenten die in de bachelo...

Although the idea of arbitral tribunal’s mandate is in everyday use in the international arbitration scholarship, it remains an elusive concept lacking any legal definition. Often associated with other notions such as the tribunal’s mission, powers, authority or even jurisdiction, the meaning of arbitral tribunal’s mandate remains a moving target and escapes easy classification.

Yet, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, a non-compliance with the arbitral tribunal’s mandate provides a basis ...

Technological developments have impacted both libraries and copyright law for decades, though not at the same pace. Whereas libraries are increasingly unlocking their collections digitally, copyright law still seems to adhere to a traditional perception of brick-and-mortar libraries. Consequently, the question arises whether copyright law, as a system of exclusive rights and exceptions, offers suffi cient space for current library practice in an era of information overload.

Therefore, this bo...