Boom Uitgevers Den Haag: 52 books
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...
Warnings and product liability
lessons learned from cognitive psychology and ergonomics
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
European Union citizens are injured each year whilst using products. Product liability law can contribute to preventing such damage by the way in which liability requirements in the context of warnings are framed and applied.Underlying these warning issues is a number of legal presumptions about how...
Between hobbes leviathan and Smith's invisible hand
empirical and interdisciplinary legal research on formal and informal institutions in trust relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
This is the inaugural address delivered on the acceptance of the Chair of Empirical Legal Studies at the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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...
Shaping the law for global crises
thoughts about the role the law could play to come to grips with the major challenges of our time
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
In the course of the last one hundred years, quite a lot has been achieved especially in the 'Western' world. Life standards have risen considerably. All kind of serious diseases belong to the past. People get older than ever before; the progress of technology has proven beneficial to mankind. Primarily...
Consolidation in international commercial arbitration
the icc and Swiss rules
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This book deals with consolidation of arbitral disputes pending before either the International chamber of Commerce or the Swiss Chambers of Commerce. It is mainly concerned with determining both the logical and the legal justifications for these rules, using Switzerland as the seat country and Germany...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This book contains the papers of the ILA panel on Islamic Finance and the Influence of Religion on the Law. First, the concept of Islamic finance is introduced, with the aim to foster a better understanding of Shar'ia compliant financial products and service providers. The second contribution discusses...
Globalization versus regionalization
4th annual maa schlechtriem cisg conference
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
This book contains the updated papers of the 4th Annual MAA Peter Schlechtriem CISG Conference, which was held on 18 March 2012 in Hong Kong. The contributions cover an overview of the current issues facing the global trade law community such as the expected accession of Brazil to the CISG, the issues...
European human rights law a manual
an introduction to the Strasbourg court and its jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
European human rights law is a body of law which has emerged from the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights. Besides the Convention, its sources also encompass the soft-law of the Council of Europe and recently the ever growing practice of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of...
by Angela Del Vecchio
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
The book examines the plurality of factors involving the proliferation of international courts and tribunals at global and regional level and also the reasons for their marked specialisation as well as the demand for international justice and the growing confidence in international judicial bodies and...
by William E. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
The Russian Legal Practitioner concentrates primarily on the advokat, who is the Russian lawyer with a right of audience in court, but also deals with the jurisconsult -- the lawyer who works for commercial law firms or in the civil service. The book uses the Federal Law on the Advokatura as its central...
Judicial decision making in civil law
determinants, dynamics and delusions
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
One of the central values of a civil society is that its legal system makes fair and accurate de-cisions concerning fault and innocence. The legal decision-maker will bring a lawsuit to a conclusion by formulating the verdict. Jurists - and judges in particular - are consequently in the business of decision-making....
Towards uniformity
the 2nd annual maa schlechtriem cisg conference
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
This book contains the updated papers of the 2nd Annual MAA Peter Schlechtriem CISG Conference which was held in March 2010. The contributions cover a variety of topics, ranging from empirical research relating to the UN Convention on the Sales of Goods (CISG) to issues of uniformity. Subjects discussed...
Consensus en controversies in animal biotechnology
an interactive legislative approach to animal biotechnology in Denmark, Switzerland, and the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Advances in animal biotechnology have led to major growth in human ability to control the processes of life. However, biotechnology remains controversial. While leading to various developments in medical science having a positive in uence on peoples lives, it has also incited passionate disagreement...