Books published by Intersentia Ltd

This book provides for a comprehensive overview of the various areas of European labour law: fundamental rights, free movement of workers and posting, equal treatment, a-typical forms of employment, collective bargaining and collective agreements, restructuring of enterprises and health and safety.

Advancing the Right to Health Care in China analyses the role of accountability, a Western concept that has recently been introduced to China, in advancing the right to health care in light of China's unique political, legal and social background.

Quality and Speed in Administrative Decision-Making: Tension or Balance? presents six national perspectives on the issues surrounding legislation brought in to deal with the consequences of the economic crisis. It also includes a comparative overview comparing and contrasting national approaches.

This book focuses on the radical communist revolution in Cambodia and the culture of impunity and silence imposed on the society under successive national governments.

Aiming to fill a gap in existing literature, this book contains an empirical study of the converging effects of the harmonisation policies used by the European lawmaker in consumer sales law.

Migration crisis, food crisis, economic crisis - the most alarming tendencies in our contemporary world are related to the transnational social question. But what role does transnational law play in this context...

Should a politician be free to fiercely attack the religion of a sector of the population? Should religious adherents be allowed to advocate the transition from a democratic to a theocratic state?These sort of questions concern 'the place of faith in public debate' and continue to dominate public discussion

In the modern globalized world, so-called private military and security companies (PMSCs) are employed by a variety of actors in times of both war and peace. They are employed by, and perform a plethora of services for, not only international organizations, NGOs and multinationals, but also States.

This reference book brings together a number of contracts that are governed by Belgian law but drafted in English. Each model is preceded by a short introduction summarizing the most salient provisions of Belgian law relevant to that particular contract Also, in most models, different options and alternative wording are included.

This book deals with the subject of treaty making in federations.

The European Yearbook on Human Rights brings together renowned scholars, emerging voices and practitioners, comprising contributions which engage with some of the most important human rights issues and developments in Europe.

This book examines coronavirus-related legislation and its consequences in European states. It brings together expert contributions from over 80 academics and practitioners.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of both the general economic theory of secured lending, as well as the very concrete and detailed aspects of the legal framework in which it takes place, in Belgium and the United States.

This sixty-fifth volume of the Annotated Leading cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains decisions taken by the ECCC from 1 June 2013 to 31 December 2018. It provides the full text of the most important decisions, identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions.

The sixty-fourth volume of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains the most important decisions taken by the ICC from 1 December 2014 to 17 June 2015. It provides the reader with the full text of the decisions identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions.

States cooperate to stem irregular migration flows, yet migration control agreements often result in widespread violations of the socio-economic rights of people on the move contained in the Global South. This book examines the States that are responsible for these violations.

This book is a short and accessible introduction to the concepts of human rights, the Internet and the emergence of an era of human rights online as a new legal challenge.

Healthcare is changing. This volume explores patient autonomy and data protection laws in light of developments in modern healthcare systems, particularly ICT in healthcare and personalised medicine. A must-read for every professional active in the field of data protection law, health law, policy development or IT-driven innovation.

This book discusses how delivering a Mega-Sporting Event (MSE) can impact human rights and highlights the challenges of dealing with cases of MSE-related human rights abuses and establishing legal responsibility.

Since the adoption of the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, all children have rights that are protected by states - at least in theory. In practice, children's rights are violated. This book proposes that a better understanding of children's rights violations may be achieved if looking at law from a child's perspective.

Extreme weather events, resulting from climate change, affect developing States, yet these states make a relatively small contribution to climate change compared to developed States and emerging markets. This book examines the legal responsibility of states from the perspective of various areas of international law.