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Stef Feyen Beyond federal dogmatics

the influence of European Union law on Belgian constitutional case law regarding federalism

Rethinking the relationship between EU law and Belgian national law. The relationship between EU law and national constitutional law, including constitutional law in federalism matters, has been subject to an ongoing scholarly debate. This monograph contributes to this debate in two ways. The author argues for an approach to constitutional law that goes beyond the classic - coined dogmatic - understanding of constitutional case law regarding federalism as expounded in Belgian academia. Building on...

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Engels | 280 pagina's (PDF, 1,6 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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Lectures for the XXIst century

2008-2009

The university is a nerve centre of society. This glimpse behind the scenes of the laboratories, workshops and classrooms of K.U.Leuven reveal what preoccupies scientists today, and how their ideas and discoveries impact our world. This second annual series of lectures in English includes such highlights as J.J. Cassiman on Genetics and Genomics, R. Merckx on Food in Africa, G. Verbeeck on The Future of History, and a great deal more. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

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Engels | 300 pagina's (PDF, 5,4 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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Lectures for the XXIst century

What preoccupies scientists today? What is the impact of their ideas and discoveries on ourselves and on our society? This question is the starting point of the 'Lectures for the twenty-first century'. Parallel to the established Dutch series, this year for the first time an English edition was organized. This first English edition offers an international audience a glimpse behind the scenes of the laboratories, the work shops or the studies and shows how linguistic justice, the history of Belgium,...

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Engels | 286 pagina's (PDF, 2,4 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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Realist biography and European policy

an innovative approach to European policy studies

The method of biographical story-telling applied to newly emerging fields of research. Realist Biography and European Policy is the first concerted attempt to integrate the separate strands of (critical) realism as a developed philosophy for social science with biographical narrative methods as a concrete methodological approach. The main goal is to demonstrate that the combination of critical realism and biographical methods is not only possible, but it is exceptionally well suited for the exploration...

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Engels | 228 pagina's (PDF, 2,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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The European Company law action plan revisited

reassessment of the 2003 priorities of the European Commission

The harmonisation of company law has always been on the agenda of the European Union. Besides the protection of third parties affected by business transactions, the founders had two other objectives: first, promoting freedom of establishment, and second, preventing the abuse of such freedom. In fact, the fear of the Netherlands becoming the 'Delaware of Europe' (in terms of competition among Member States) seemed real, until, ironically, at the beginning of the 21st century, it was the privilege...

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Engels | 376 pagina's (PDF, 5,2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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The sparking discipline of criminology

John Braithwaite and the construction of critical social science and social justice

With a contribution by John Braithwaite himself: 'Opportunities and dangers of capitalist criminology'. Over the past decades, the Australian social scientist John Braithwaite (1951) has played a crucial role in the development of international criminology. He is universally considered one of the most renowned criminologists of our times and he has characteristically put his scientific engagement at the service of humanity and society by aiming at social justice, participative democracy, sustainable...

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Engels | 165 pagina's (PDF, 14 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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'A truly golden handbook'

the scholarly quest for Utopia

'A Truly Golden Handbook, No Less Instructive than Delightful, by the Most Learned and Distinguished Professors of the Renowned University of Leuven.' 500 Years Utopia. What would the ideal society of the future look like? In 1516, the eminent English humanist Thomas More tried his hand at imagining a perfect society on a distant island. His Utopia was published in the Flemish town of Leuven, home of a university that was established almost a century earlier. 500 years later, scholars of this university...

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Engels | 576 pagina's (PDF, 6,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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Akky van der Veer De reuzen wurde wekker

in oare skiednis fan de ierde en de minske

Yn dit boek besiket Akky van der Veer (1943) al ûndersykjende- en skriuwendewei antwurd te finen op algemien minsklike fragen lykas: Wêrta binne wy op Ierde? Wêrom is der safolle gaos en lijen yn dizze wrâld? Wat kinne wy der meielkoar ta bydrage om de needsaaklike balâns tusken ljocht en tsjuster, tusken goed en kwea, werom te krijen? Net troch de kop yn it sân te stekken, is har stelling. Mar troch moedich te wêzen en de fiergeande manipulaasjes fan de PTB (Powers That Be), dêr't wy yn...

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Westerlauwers Fries | 218 pagina's (ePub2, 2,9 MB) | Elikser, Leeuwarden | 2017

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