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Formation du droit et gouvernement de l'Église constituent deux aspects d'un même thème dont l'étude a passionné Jean Gaudemet : la vie et l'organisation de la société ecclésiale, tant de ses pasteurs que de son troupeau. Comment l'autorité romaine, dont la primauté s'affirme dès le IVe siècle, a-t-elle établi par la suite une plenitudo postestatis ? Comment le rôle de l'épiscopat changea-t-il en s'adaptant à cette évolution de l'autorité pontificale ? Dans l'histoire de l'Église, continuités et mutations se conjuguent et se combinent, encadrées par des règles juridiques dont on cherche à saisir les modalités de formation et la mise en application effective. On trouvera, reproduits dans ce volume, 20 articles de Jean Gaudemet traitant de ces questions - articles parus entre 1983 et 2003 dans différents recueils ou revues étrangères d'accès parfois difficile. Ils représentent autant d'investigations et de réflexions sur des aspects souvent peu explorés de l'histoire du pouvoir et du droit dans l'Église. Très utiles aux chercheurs, ils retiendront également l'attention de tous ceux qu'intéressent les institutions de l'Église et la vie des clercs et laïques.

Canon law --- Droit canonique --- History --- Sources --- Histoire --- Gaudemet, Jean --- Bibliography. --- Catholic Church --- Government --- History. --- Religion --- religion --- droit --- christianisme

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Designed for use as a coursebook for classes in foreign and international legal research, this work is also suitable for librarians, students, law professors and other researchers who can use it as a research guide outside of formal classes. It can also be used as a tool for quick look-ups when a researcher needs some direction on a topic.

Droit international --- Droit --- International law --- Legal research. --- Law of nations --- Nations, Law of --- Public international law --- Law --- Legal bibliography --- Research --- Recherche documentaire.

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This is the first of a series of national reports on basic issues concerning the acquisition and loss of ownership of movable assets. The series is planned to cover 27 European legal systems, distributed over six volumes, as a product of the research activities of the working group "Transfer of Movables" within the "Study Group on a European Civil Code". Starting with general property law issues like the concepts of ownership and possession employed in the respective legal systems, and the related means of protection, the reports primarily deal with the "derivative" transfer of ownership, but extend to good faith acquisition from a non-owner, acquisitive prescription, processing and commingling, and further related issues. The reports provide the reader with detailed information about the respective rules, case law and legal literature, prepared by national property law experts. These reports are a starting point for further comparative research in property law and also a tool for practitioners searching for information on foreign legal systems. Where available and as far as reasonable, the reports include translations of the most important statutory provisions either in the text or in an annex. All reports include a table of literature and a table of abbreviations, which shall facilitate carrying out further research.

Transfer (Law) --- Personal property --- Transfert (Droit) --- Propriété mobilière --- Propriété mobilière --- Things (Law) --- Biens (Droit) --- Alienation (Law) --- Acquisition of property --- Property --- Singular succession --- Transfer (Law) - Europe --- Autriche --- Estonie --- Italie --- Slovénie --- Royaume-Uni --- Irlande --- Chypre --- Allemagne --- Grèce --- Lituanie --- Hongrie --- France --- Belgique --- Bulgarie --- Pologne --- Portugal --- Suède --- Norvège --- Danemark --- Finlande --- Espagne --- Pays-Bas --- Suisse --- République tchèque --- Slovaquie --- Malte --- Lettonie --- Droit civil --- Transfert (droit) --- Biens (droit) --- Etudes comparatives --- Europe

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Insufficient access to a basic water supply is not an unavoidable consequence of water scarcity. In fact, arid countries possess enough resources to fulfil the basic water needs of their populations and there are people in water rich countries suffering from water stress, too. Thus, insufficient freshwater access mainly can be seen as a problem of allocation and mismanagement. This book comprehensively analyses the appropriateness of a human rights-based approach in safeguarding basic water supplies and determines its legal basis in international law. Arriving at the conclusion that international water law does not adequately consider individual water needs, the study identifies applicable human rights and examines the concrete standard of protection they provide. In view of the deficits of current international water and human rights law, the study discusses concepts deemed to strengthen a human rights-based approach to freshwater access by considering both their formal legal appropriateness as well as their suitability in legal reality.

Fresh water --- Human rights. --- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) --- Eau douce --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Law and legislation. --- Droit. --- Law and legislation

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The UN has adopted a "responsibility to protect" mandate for humanitarian intervention in civil wars - but there is no institutional basis for carrying out that mandate. Patricia Marchak argues that unless would-be interveners have an understanding of local issues, agents who speak local languages, and a military force fully prepared to undertake both peaceful and military missions on short notice, UN and other attempts to intervene are unlikely to succeed. While UN-sponsored international criminal courts have been successful in obliging leaders to accept responsibility for their actions during bitter internal wars, Marchak argues that they may not be the best means of bringing truth and reconciliation to survivors. Based on the principle of individual responsibility, they are not designed to deal with collective crimes against humanity and genocide, nor are they good instruments for dealing with the breakdown of societies. Bringing together her own field interviews, documentary material, and secondary sources, Marchak critically assesses the recent history of international interventions and criminal prosecutions. She examines three cases in detail: Cambodia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia in its current forms of Bosnia and Serbia, considers their international context prior to and during internal wars, and argues that each case has to be understood in its own context and history - there is no common pattern and no easy fix that could mend broken societies after the wars. No Easy Fix is of interest to anyone concerned with how the international community deals with civil wars that involve serious crimes against humanity.

Humanitarian intervention --- Civil war --- Crimes against humanity --- Droit d'ingérence humanitaire. --- Guerre civile. --- Crimes contre l'humanité. --- Droit d'ingérence humanitaire --- Guerre civile --- Crimes contre l'humanit