Gender equality is essential for the achievement of human rights for all. Women are entitled to live with dignity and must enjoy the rights to equal protection by the law. The Judiciary remain the guardian of human rights and freedoms. The paper analyses the enforcement, by the judiciary, the...

In this contribution an overview is given of, what might be called, the ‘matrix’ of European property law. This matrix (the “classical model” of property law) consists of two layers. The first layer encompasses the leading principles and ground rules of property law. The second layer...

In this article the author analyses if actual family property law still translate the common sense and values of today's society, by giving a rough sketch of some important issues that have pointed out in the last decades, first in matrimonial property law, then in inheritance and gift law, all...

Dit artikel gaat over de bepalingen van het Wetboek Internationaal Privaatrecht en familiaal vermogensrecht. De bepalingen omvatten relatievermogensrecht, erfrecht (inclusief testamenten) en schenkingen. In this article I discuss the provisions of the Codex of Conflicts of Law on Family Property...

The New Private Law takes seriously the need for baselines in general and the traditional ones furnished by the law in particular. One such baseline is the “things” of property. The bundle of rights picture popularized by the Legal Realists downplayed things and promoted the expectation that...

In this paper we explain the clause of property administration and argue that it can validlly be added as a binding clause in gifts and wills. We analyse a list of counter arguments and attempt to rebut all of them

Artists in the United States who sell their works without contractually reserving any rights in the same currently enjoy only limited rights under federal copyright laws to exercise continuing control over such works. The author assesses the shortcomings of copyright protection in comparison...

The dominant approach to environmental policy endorsed by conservative and libertarian policy thinkers, so-called "free market environmentalism" (FME), is grounded in the recognition and protection of property rights in environmental resources. Despite this normative commitment to property...

Housing of limited property rights, including so-called "small-property-rights housing" in the countryside (SLPR housing) and affordable housing program in the city (ALPR housing), is an important feature of China's housing policy. This paper presents an integrated analysis of ALPR and SLPR...

This essay argues that, rather than being a constitutional bulwark against environmental regulation, certain kinds of property rights can actually ease constitutional barriers created by current Supreme Court doctrine. These environmental property rights (EPRs) are either rights to prevent...