Eleven International Publishing imprint: 51 books
Climate change remedies
injunctive relief and criminal law responses
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Climate change poses very serious risks to mankind. Adaptation and damages are emphasized more and more. Although adaptation is important, priority should be given to prevention (mitigation). The contributions in this second volume in the series Legal Perspectives of Global Challenges emanate from...
by Elena Kosolapova
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
The first commitment period under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has expired. Following the adoption of the Doha Amendment in December 2012, it is now clear that, today, the Kyoto Protocol only covers about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions. It does not...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
This work presents a collection of essays about Russian Law and Economics with respect to the Russian federation's relations to the European Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). It confronts the challenges facing a transition economy in its struggle for economic development through...
Tortured reality
how media framing of waterboarding affects judicial independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Judicial independence is not just an abstract principle that systems of government ensuring the rule of law must adhere to. It is also a concrete standard, set out in binding (as well as in some non-binding) human rights documents and enforced by human rights courts all over the world. These multiple...
Good, bad and next in public governance
the winelands papers 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
This work presents the peer-reviewed and updated conference papers presented at the 13th Winelands Conference of the School for Public Leadership of the University of Stellenbosch. The publication is the result of an international orientation on the themes of good governance and corruption, now and in...
Safety assessment of foreign aircraft programme
a European approach to enhance global aviation safety
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This book features the European approach to enhance global aviation safety. The EU SAFA programme, with its legal basis in Directive 2004/36/EC, will focus on air carrier operational performance and compliance. Its main objective shall be to establish and maintain a high uniform level of aviation safety...
Arguments that work
strategies, contexts and limits in contexts and limits in constitutional law
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
This volume contains the updated papers of the 3rd Annual MAA Peter Schlechtriem CISG Conference, which was held on 14 April 2011 in Vienna. The contributions cover a variety of topics. Subjects discussed include the trends in the relative importance of physical and non-physical attributes of goods...
Agreed sums payable upon breach of an obligation
rethinking penalty and liquidated damages clauses
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
This book undertakes a comparative analysis of the ways in which legal systems in all regions of the world deal with agreed sums payable upon breach of an obligation which is unique in its breadth. It shows divergences and convergences and indicates trends as to the future development of the law....
Keep moving
towards sustainable mobility
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The focus of this book is on the environmental impact of mobility and how to reduce this before 2050. It provides policy makers with a broad and multifaceted inspiration to develop effective policies on sustainable mobility based on scientific evidence. Different visions and facets to solutions are put...
In search of scientific excellence
scientists' guide to public funding
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
`Excellence is said to be the sole criterion in grant decision-making. How excellence is judged by funding organizations is difficult to grasp. This book helps scientists to acquire a grant for basic research from national and international funding organizations. It describes the processes involved and...
National judges as European union judges
knowledge, experience and attitudes of lower court judges in Germany and the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
This work is the outcome of a research project on the application and enforcement of EU law by national judges. The project focused on the experiences of national judges in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) and the Netherlands and its aim is to understand the processes surrounding the application of EU...
Geert Wilders speaks out
the rhetorical frames of a European populist
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Geert Wilders has dominated the political debate in the Netherlands for several years. His opponents from the centre seem unable to get a grip on him. In this essay, Hans de Bruijn analyses the way in which Wilders conducts the debate. He discusses the frames used by Wilders and shows how ingenious they...
Public leadership and citizen value
the winelands papers
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
This work presents the peer-reviewed and updated conference papers presented at the 12th Winelands Conference on Public Leadership for Added Citizen Value. In order to produce good results, public leadership must be ethical and effective. Context is important when seeking to understand the concept of...
Legal education and judicial training in Europe
the menu for justice project report
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Menu for Justice is the first European project that takes seriously the issue of how the new generation of Europeans should be trained in law and legal matters and how experts in law and the judicial process can develop new skills and competences to effectively face the challenges of a common judicial...