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State Immunity in Jurisprudence of Czech Courts (2014)
Journal Article
Van der Ploeg, K. P. (2014). State Immunity in Jurisprudence of Czech Courts. Czech Yearbook of International Law, 5, 421-450

Th is paper discusses the understanding and application of the doctrine of State immunity in the courts of the Czech Republic. In 2008, the Czech Supreme Court reversed its previous conceptualization of State immunity as absolute and introduced a res... Read More about State Immunity in Jurisprudence of Czech Courts.

Understanding and protecting vulnerable financial consumers (2014)
Journal Article
Cartwright, P. (2015). Understanding and protecting vulnerable financial consumers. Journal of Consumer Policy, 38(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-014-9278-9

This article considers how consumer protection law and policy should address the interests of particularly vulnerable financial consumers. Specifically, the article proposes a taxonomy of vulnerability which helps to identify (a) what makes consumers... Read More about Understanding and protecting vulnerable financial consumers.

Jurisdiction in Intellectual Property Cases (2014)
Book Chapter
Torremans, P. (2014). Jurisdiction in Intellectual Property Cases. In Research Handbook on the Croiss Border Enforcement of Intellectual Property Cases (381-720). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing

Reforming the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS): what is it exactly that we want? (2014)
Journal Article
Bartlett, P. (2014). Reforming the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS): what is it exactly that we want?

The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) are the rules by which people who lack mental capacity can be deprived of liberty, most commonly in care homes or hospitals but also in supported accommodation and in the community more broadly. The prese... Read More about Reforming the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS): what is it exactly that we want?.

Peacekeeping, private security and international human rights law: a review of UN policies (2014)
Journal Article
White, N. D. (2014). Peacekeeping, private security and international human rights law: a review of UN policies. International Community Law Review, 16(4), https://doi.org/10.1163/18719732-12341289

The un is used to ‘outsourcing’ or ‘contracting out’ its peacekeeping functions but, traditionally, this has been to states willing to contribute troops to an operation under overall un command and control. This model itself has created tensions betw... Read More about Peacekeeping, private security and international human rights law: a review of UN policies.

Comparative and normative analysis of damages under the SGA and the CESL (2014)
Journal Article
Beheshti, R. (2014). Comparative and normative analysis of damages under the SGA and the CESL. St. Thomas law review, 26(4),

The Proposal for a Common European Sales Law (CESL) and the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (SGA) have adopted different approaches toward the calculation of damages. Under the SGA, the ‘market price’ rule is preferred over the rule governing ‘making a substi... Read More about Comparative and normative analysis of damages under the SGA and the CESL.