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This book investigates the UK's nuclear weapon policy, focusing in
particular on how consecutive governments have managed to maintain
the Trident weapon system. The question of why states maintain
nuclear weapons typically receives short shrift: its security, of
course. The international is a perilous place, and nuclear weapons
represent the ultimate self-help device. This book seeks to
unsettle this complacency by re-conceptualizing nuclear
weapon-armed states as nuclear regimes of truth and refocusing on
the processes through which governments produce and maintain
country-specific discourses that enable their continued possession
of nuclear weapons. Illustrating the value of studying nuclear
regimes of truth, the book conducts a discourse analysis of the
UK's nuclear weapons policy between 1980 and 2010. In so doing, it
documents the sheer imagination and discursive labour required to
sustain the positive value of nuclear weapons within British
politics, as well as providing grounds for optimism regarding the
value of the recent treaty banning nuclear weapons.
This book investigates the UK's nuclear weapon policy, focusing in
particular on how consecutive governments have managed to maintain
the Trident weapon system. The question of why states maintain
nuclear weapons typically receives short shrift: its security, of
course. The international is a perilous place, and nuclear weapons
represent the ultimate self-help device. This book seeks to
unsettle this complacency by re-conceptualizing nuclear
weapon-armed states as nuclear regimes of truth and refocusing on
the processes through which governments produce and maintain
country-specific discourses that enable their continued possession
of nuclear weapons. Illustrating the value of studying nuclear
regimes of truth, the book conducts a discourse analysis of the
UK's nuclear weapons policy between 1980 and 2010. In so doing, it
documents the sheer imagination and discursive labour required to
sustain the positive value of nuclear weapons within British
politics, as well as providing grounds for optimism regarding the
value of the recent treaty banning nuclear weapons.
This book provides a substantial overview of the discipline of
private international law viewed from a global perspective. The
guide is divided into 4 key sections. Theory Institutional and
Conceptual Framework Issues Civil and Commercial Law (apart from
Family Law) Family Law Each chapter is written by a leading
expert(s). The chapters address specific areas/aspects of private
international law and consider the existing global solutions and
the possibilities of improving/creating them. Where appropriate,
the chapters are co-authored by experts from different legal
perspectives in order to achieve as balanced a picture as possible.
The range of contributions includes authors from Europe, North
America, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. An essential
resource for academics, practitioners and students alike.
This book grew out of a major European Union (EU) funded project on
the Hague Maintenance Convention of 2007 and on the EU Maintenance
Regulation of 2009. The project involved carrying out analytical
research on the implementation into national law of the EU
Regulation and empirical research on the first year of its
operation in practice. The project also engaged international
experts in a major conference on recovery of maintenance in the EU
and worldwide in Heidelberg in March 2013. The contributions in
this book are the revised, refereed and edited versions of the best
papers that were given at the conference. The book is divided into
four parts: (i) comparative context (ii) international, looking at
national and non-European regional practice and how the Hague
Convention could change things; (iii) international and the EU,
looking at issues covered by both the Hague Convention and the EU
Regulation; and (iv) the EU - looking at the Maintenance
Regulation. This is the first study to look carefully at both of
the new cross-border maintenance regimes globally and in Europe and
to begin the examination of the practical operation of the latter
regime. The approval of the Hague Convention by the EU on 9 April
2014 is a major step forward for its practical significance in
enabling the recovery of child and spousal support, as from 1
August 2014 all of the 28 EU Member States apart from Denmark will
be bound by the Convention.
This book provides a substantial overview of the discipline of
private international law viewed from a global perspective. The
guide is divided into 4 key sections. Theory Institutional and
Conceptual Framework Issues Civil and Commercial Law (apart from
Family Law) Family Law Each chapter is written by a leading
expert(s). The chapters address specific areas/aspects of private
international law and consider the existing global solutions and
the possibilities of improving/creating them. Where appropriate,
the chapters are co-authored by experts from different legal
perspectives in order to achieve as balanced a picture as possible.
The range of contributions includes authors from Europe, North
America, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. An essential
resource for academics, practitioners and students alike.
This book addresses the pressing challenges presented by the
proliferation of international surrogacy arrangements. The book is
divided into three parts. Part 1 contains National Reports on
domestic approaches to surrogacy from Argentina, Australia,
Belgium, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece,
Guatemala, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom,
United States and Venezuela. The reports are written by domestic
specialists, each demonstrating the difficult and urgent problems
arising in many States as a result of international surrogacy
arrangements. These National Reports not only provide the backdrop
to the authors' proposed model regulation appearing in Part 3, but
serve as a key resource for scrutinising the most worrying
incompatibilities in national laws on surrogacy. Part 2 of the book
contains two contributions that provide international perspectives
on cross-border surrogacy such as the 'human rights' perspective.
Part 3 contains a General Report, which consists of an analysis of
the National Reports appearing in Part 1, together with a proposed
model of regulation of international surrogacy arrangements at the
international level written by the two co-editors, Paul Beaumont
and Katarina Trimmings. The research undertaken by Katarina
Trimmings and Paul Beaumont from 2010 to 2012 was funded by the
Nuffield Foundation.
This substantial and original book examines how the EU Private
International Law (PIL) framework is functioning and considers its
impact on the administration of justice in cross-border cases
within the EU. It grew out of a major project (ie EUPILLAR:
European Union Private International Law: Legal Application in
Reality) financially supported by the EU Civil Justice Programme.
The research was led by the Centre for Private International Law at
the University of Aberdeen and involved partners from the
Universities of Freiburg, Antwerp, Wroclaw, Leeds, Milan and Madrid
(Complutense). The contributors address the specific features of
cross-border disputes in the EU by undertaking a comprehensive
analysis of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) and national case
law on the Brussels I, Rome I and II, Brussels IIa and Maintenance
Regulations. Part I discusses the development of the EU PIL
framework. Part II contains the national reports from 26 EU Member
States. Parts III (civil and commercial) and IV (family law)
contain the CJEU case law analysis and several cross-cutting
chapters. Part V briefly sets the agenda for an institutional
reform which is necessary to improve the effectiveness of the EU
PIL regime. This comprehensive research project book will be of
interest to researchers, students, legal practitioners, judges and
policy-makers who work, or are interested, in the field of private
international law.
This substantial and original book examines how the EU Private
International Law (PIL) framework is functioning and considers its
impact on the administration of justice in cross-border cases
within the EU. It grew out of a major project (ie EUPILLAR:
European Union Private International Law: Legal Application in
Reality) financially supported by the EU Civil Justice Programme.
The research was led by the Centre for Private International Law at
the University of Aberdeen and involved partners from the
Universities of Freiburg, Antwerp, Wroclaw, Leeds, Milan and Madrid
(Complutense). The contributors address the specific features of
cross-border disputes in the EU by undertaking a comprehensive
analysis of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) and national case
law on the Brussels I, Rome I and II, Brussels IIa and Maintenance
Regulations. Part I discusses the development of the EU PIL
framework. Part II contains the national reports from 26 EU Member
States. Parts III (civil and commercial) and IV (family law)
contain the CJEU case law analysis and several cross-cutting
chapters. Part V briefly sets the agenda for an institutional
reform which is necessary to improve the effectiveness of the EU
PIL regime. This comprehensive research project book will be of
interest to researchers, students, legal practitioners, judges and
policy-makers who work, or are interested, in the field of private
international law.
This book grew out of a major European Union (EU) funded project on
the Hague Maintenance Convention of 2007 and on the EU Maintenance
Regulation of 2009. The project involved carrying out analytical
research on the implementation into national law of the EU
Regulation and empirical research on the first year of its
operation in practice. The project also engaged international
experts in a major conference on recovery of maintenance in the EU
and worldwide in Heidelberg in March 2013. The contributions in
this book are the revised, refereed and edited versions of the best
papers that were given at the conference. The book is divided into
four parts: (i) comparative context (ii) international, looking at
national and non-European regional practice and how the Hague
Convention could change things; (iii) international and the EU,
looking at issues covered by both the Hague Convention and the EU
Regulation; and (iv) the EU - looking at the Maintenance
Regulation. This is the first study to look carefully at both of
the new cross-border maintenance regimes globally and in Europe and
to begin the examination of the practical operation of the latter
regime. The approval of the Hague Convention by the EU on 9 April
2014 is a major step forward for its practical significance in
enabling the recovery of child and spousal support, as from 1
August 2014 all of the 28 EU Member States apart from Denmark will
be bound by the Convention.
This book, written within the framework of a research project
funded by the European Commission Civil Justice Programme,
identifies the ways in which cross-border EU competition law
actions can best be handled in Europe. Employing traditional
library-based legal research methods as well as qualitative
interviews with legal practitioners in Germany and England
(countries sharing different legal traditions) and policy-makers in
Brussels, the book considers how private EU competition law actions
are functioning at the moment and how they could and should be
developed. The study proposes solutions for some of the most
pressing practical problems, and includes chapters by the following
academics, legal practitioners and judges: Judge I Pelikanova
(General Court of the EU); J Lawrence and A Morfey (Freshfields); P
Lasok QC (Monckton Chambers); H Mercer QC (Essex Court Chambers); J
Webber (Shearman & Sterling); T Reher (CMS Hasche Sigle,
Germany); P Bos and J Moehlmann (BarentsKrans, the Netherlands); P
Beaumont (Aberdeen); S Bariatti (Milan); G Howells (Manchester); D
Fairgrieve (BIICL); J Fitchen (Aberdeen); A Andreangeli
(Edinburgh); D Tzakas (Athens Bar, Greece); S Dnes (Sidley Austin,
Brussels); F Becker and J Kammin (Kiel University, Germany); and M
Danov (Brunel University).
This book grew out of a symposium held in the University of
Aberdeen in May 2000. It examines the extent to which the European
Union has brought about and should bring about convergence of law
in Europe,in particular, but not exclusively, public law in Europe.
Rather than focusing narrowly on the Intergovernmental Conference
process, the book engages those who wish a detached and, at times,
theoretical examination of the politics of institutional reform in
the EU (Michael Keating and Joanne Scott); of the legal techniques
for accommodating diversity within the Union and the process of
treaty making or constitution building in the EU (Deirdre Curtin,
Ige Dekker, Bruno de Witte and Carole Lyons); the
cross-fertilisation of administrative law concepts between the EU
level and the national level (Chris Himsworth, Ton Heukels and
Jamila Tib); the need for and legitimacy of a European Union
competence on human rights (Grainne de Burca, Paul Beaumont and
Niamh NicShuibhne); and whether private law and public law differ
in the extent to which they go to the heart of (reflect) national
culture and therefore in the extent to which they are amenable to
convergence (Carol Harlow, Pierre Legrand and Neil Walker).
This collection features essays by leading experts in European
public law on the most significant single initiative in European
integration of the past decade. After introductory essays on the
legal and economic foundations and political context of the
Euro,the book concentrates on the articulation of Monetary Union
with other aspects of the legal and political order of the EU. The
constitutional status of the institutions of Monetary Union is
assessed, as is the relationship between Monetary Union and the
broader administrative structure and social objectives of the EU. A
final essay considers the implications of the Euro for the
cohesiveness of the European legal order in the early years of the
next century. This highly topical book is the first of its kind,
seeking to address in a comprehensive manner the relationship
between the single currency and the European legal order.
Contributors: Paul Beaumont, Neil Walker (eds), Alistair Darling,
John Usher, Andrew Scott, Ian Harden, Paul Craig, Joanne Scott
(Stephen Vousden - co-author), Michelle Everson.
The Hague Child Abduction Convention has proved to be one of the most widely ratified treaties ever agreed at the Hague Cbar2001ce on Private International Law. This book provides a much needed systematic analysis of the way in which the Convention has been applied in England and Scotland, with extensive reference also to the case law of Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand and the United States. All the key provisions and terms of the Convention are thoroughly explored. The book also provides broader insights into the role of the Hague Conference and the use of habitual residence as a correcting factor. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has described the book as 'the leading treatise on the Convention' (Mozes v. Mozes, 9 January 2001).
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