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Judicial Governance and Democracy in Europe
Amid the growing debate about models of judicial governance and their relationship to democratic quality, this book offers a systematic and empirical study of this relationship. The book thereby contributes to filling in this gap for the European continent. Taking an interdisciplinary politics and law perspective, and combining empirical and theoretical considerations, the book addresses the im…
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- 978-3-031-20190-5
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- XI, 91
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- SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Collective Actions in Europe : A Comparative, Economic and Transsystemic Anal…
This open access book offers an analytical presentation of how Europe has created its own version of collective actions. In the last three decades, Europe has seen a remarkable proliferation of collective action legislation, making class actions the most successful export product of the American legal scholarship. While its spread has been surrounded by distrust and suspiciousness, today more t…
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- 978-3-030-24222-0
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- IX, 122
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- SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Brexit and the Control of Tobacco Illicit Trade
This book assesses the consequences of Brexit for the control of illicit trade in tobacco products in the UK and EU. Based on the currently applicable legal framework, it examines the significance of a possible non-application of the acquis communautaire in the UK in matters relating to anti-illicit trade in tobacco legislation. It also analyses the modes of future cooperation between the UK a…
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- 978-3-030-45979-6
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- XI, 81
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- SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Linked Democracy : Foundations, Tools, and Applications
This open access book shows the factors linking information flow, social intelligence, rights management and modelling with epistemic democracy, offering licensed linked data along with information about the rights involved. This model of democracy for the web of data brings new challenges for the social organisation of knowledge, collective innovation, and the coordination of actions. Licensed…
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- 978-3-030-13363-4
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- XV, 130
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- SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Implementation of EU Readmission Agreements : Identity Determination Dilemmas…
By examining the implementation dynamics of EU Readmission Agreements (EURAs), this book addresses the practical reasons why irregular immigrants cannot be expelled. EURAs are one of the vital legal instruments framing EU external migration law with regard to the expulsion of irregular immigrants, yet their implementation has met with various obstacles. Above all, the process of determining an …
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- 978-3-319-42505-4
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- XVII, 83
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- SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Ethics and Civil Drones : European Policies and Proposals for the Industry
This open access book disseminates some of the results of the European H2020 AiRT Project (Technology transfer of RPAs for the creative industry). In particular, it presents findings related to mitigating safety and security concerns when civil drones are piloted by the service sector (mainly, the creative industry). European policies regarding drones generally focus on outdoor drones, but they…
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- 978-3-319-71087-7
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- X, 92
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- SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Nuclear Law
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) plays a unique role in the development and implementation of international nuclear law. This chapter contains a short examination of the regime of nuclear law and its four pillars, namely safety, security, safeguards and civil liability for nuclear damage. It examines how we got to where we are and where we can take the global debate, taking int…
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- 9789462654952
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- VIII, 333
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European Variations as a Key to Cooperation
This Open Access book offers a novel view on the benefits of a lasting variation between the member states in the EU. In order to bring together thirty very different European states and their citizens, the EU will have to offer more scope for variation. Unlike the existing differentiation by means of opt-outs and deviations, variation is not a concession intended to resolve impasses in negotia…
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- 1
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- 9783030328931
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- XX, 177 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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People or Property: Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View …
This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face the prospect of relocating because of rising seas, policy makers, disaster specialists, and community leaders are scrambling to understand what adaptation pathways are legally…
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- 978-3-031-36872-1
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- XXI, 242
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Defending Checks and Balances in EU Member States: Taking Stock of Europe’s…
This open access book deals with Article 7 TEU measures, court proceedings, financial sanctions and the EU Rule of Law Framework to protect EU values with a particular focus on checks and balances in EU Member States. It analyses substantive standards, powers, procedures as well as the consequences and implications of the various instruments. It combines the analysis of the European level, be i…
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- 978-3-662-62317-6
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- X, 480
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