In pluralist societies, corporate religious freedom might confl ict with other fundamental rights. Corporate piety might collide with LGBT rights, notably when a company’s management does not accept, either as em ployees or clients, individuals whom it believes to have ‘sinful’ sexual orientations. Secular companies may want to keep religion out of the workplace altogether, thus affecting individual religious freedom of employees.

In this contribution, Jeroen Temperman engages with such...

The adjective “private” in Private International Law (PIL) distinguishes PIL from its public international sibling but also confines its scope to horizontal disputes between parties otherthan states acting as such. But does this mean thatthese disputes implicate only the interests ofthe immediate parties and not the interests of the states involved in the conflict? The classical and still prevailing view of PIL answers this question in the affirmative. A contrary view, usually associated ...

Het doel van dit boek is om de complexe materie van het Europees recht toegankelijk te maken voor studenten die zich bevinden in de eerste fase van de studie rechten. De auteurs beperken zich tot het beschrijven en uitleggen van de kern van een aantal Europeesrechtelijke onderwerpen die voor een goed begrip van het Unierecht onmisbaar zijn. Het boek is gemakkelijk leesbaar en bevat veel voorbeelden. Daarmee is het zeer geschikt voor inleidende cursussen in het hoger onderwijs. Deze derde druk...

In deze Boom Basics staat het internationaal recht centraal.

De Boom Basics geven je snel inzicht in een rechtsgebied. Door de duidelijke schema’s, de puntsgewijze uitleg en de sprekende voorbeelden kom je direct tot de kern van de zaak. Perfect voor tentamenvoorbereiding of een snelle opfrissing van je kennis!

De Boom Basics zijn bestemd voor studenten die een juridische opleiding volgen aan een universiteit of hogeschool.

Many of the contemporary global environmental problems are rooted in overexploitation of natural resources. This research looks at over-exploitation and a lack of circularity in the context of the agricultural food system. Despite biotechnological methods being available for the recovery of nutrients and organic matter from waste streams, many of these have not yet been applied to their full potential in the EU. The research identifies legislative gaps and analyses how these may be hampering ...

The present research aims to verify the nature and extent of the identity clause

and to establish the role that art. 4, par. 2 TEU is called to perform in the management of the aforementioned conflicts. More specifically, it is of interest to verify whether the law has its own autonomy, what consequences may result

its being violated in the light of CEU jurisprudence and what added value could

have a consistent use of the identity clause in the context of the management

of inter-order conflic...

Fleur Johns on her lecture 'Connection in a Divided World: Rethinking ‘Community’ in International Law':

“The concept of ‘community’ (as in the ‘international community’ or the ‘community of nations’) has been a cornerstone of international law, sometimes aiding the articulation and promotion of public interests. For example, recent attempts to forge international agreement on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response have been spurred by governments acknowledging ‘th...

comparing provisions in Türkiye, England and Wales, and the Netherlands to the ECHR framework

This publication offers a unique comparative analysis of the sentencing of mentally disordered offenders in Türkiye, England and Wales, and the Netherlands, exploring the alignment of these systems with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). While the presence of mental disorders impacts criminal responsibility, the legal responses and practices differ significantly across jurisdictions.

T...