T M C Asser Press imprint: 138 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
With a Foreword by Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response
Over the last decades natural and man-made disasters have been increasing in terms of frequency, size, number of people affected and material damage caused. There...
by Nienke van der Have
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
This book contains a systematic assessment of the content and scope of obligations
to prevent gross human rights violations. There has been a great deal of attention for
concepts aiming to prevent gross human rights violations, such as conflict prevention
and the responsibility...
Dealing with Wars and Dictatorships
Legal Concepts and Categories in Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Democratic ‘transitions’ in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and South Africa, often studied under the conceptual rubric of ‘transitional justice’, have involved the formation of public policies toward the past that are multifaceted and often ambitious. Recent scholarship rarely questions the...
Indigenousness in Africa
A Contested Legal Framework for Empowerment of 'Marginalized' Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Following the internationalisation of the indigenous rights movement, a growing number of African hunter-gatherers, pastoralists and other communities have adopted indigenousness in claiming special legal protection. Their legal claims as the indigenous peoples of Africa are backed by many international...
by Nasour Koursami
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
This book examines the position of ‘contextual elements’ as a constitutive element of the legal definition of the crime of genocide, and determines the extent to which an individual génocidaire is required to act within a particular genocidal context.
Unlike other books in the field of...
by Julie McBride
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The practice of using children to participate in conflict has become a defining characteristic of 21st century warfare and is the most recent addition to the canon of international war crimes. This text examines the development of this crime of recruiting, conscripting or using children for participation...
by N. A. Baarsma
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Choice of law determines which national legal system applies to an international case. Currently many choice of law rules in the field of family law are regulated by national law. However, these national rules of the EU Member States are more and more displaced by common European rules. This book...
Memory and Punishment
Historical Denialism, Free Speech and the Limits of Criminal Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This book examines the criminalisation of denials of genocide and of other mass atrocities in Europe and discusses the implications of protecting institutional historical memory through criminal law.
The analysis highlights the tensions with free speech, investigating the relationship between...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
The general theme of this volume of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law
is armed groups and the challenges arising from the participation of such groups in
contemporary armed conflicts. It is elaborated upon in several chapters, addressing
the organisation criterion,...
Economic Sanctions under International Law
Unilateralism, Multilateralism, Legitimacy, and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Since the Second World War, States have increasingly relied upon economic sanctions programs, in lieu of military action, to exert pressure and generally to fill the awkward gap between verbal denunciation and action. Whether or not sanctions are effective remains a point of contention among policymakers....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The EU has limited legislative competence in the field of social law. However, the Member States are increasingly modernizing social services and social (welfare) protection, attempting to make social services more efficient by increasingly looking to the market for the provision of such services....
The Future of Asylum in the European Union
Problems, proposals and human rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
This book is based on a conference on the future of the European asylum policy at Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. After a challenge set by the Dutch State Secretary for Justice, Ms Nebahat Albayrak, the contributions to this book focus on human rights aspects of the European asylum...
Avoiding a Full Criminal Trial
Fair Trial Rights, Diversions and Shortcuts in Dutch and International Criminal Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
In modern societies, full criminal trials are avoided on many occasions. This book is concerned with mechanisms that either divert from or speed up the proceedings.
Koen Vriend argues that the fair trial rights as established by the European Court of Human Rights under Article 6 ECHR provide...
NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2016
Organizing for Safety and Security in Military Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
NL ARMS 2016 offers a collection of studies on the interrelatedness of safety and security in military organizations so as to anticipate or even prepare for dire situations. The volume contains a wide spectrum of contributions on organizing for safety and security in a military context that are theoretically...