• Status of religious communities
• Relations between the state and Islam
• State support for Islamic religious communities
• Muslims in integration law
• Mosques and prayer houses
• Burial and cemeteries
• Education and schools
• Further and higher (tertiary) education
• Islamic chaplaincy in public institutions
• Employment and social law
• Islamic slaughter and food regulation
• Islamic dress
• Criminal law
• Family law.

This volume of "Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe" covers Belgium and consists of an annotated collection of legal documents affecting the status of Islam and Muslims in Europe. The legal texts are published in the original French and Dutch languages while the annotations and supporting material are in English.
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This book seeks to make a contribution to the debate on what should be done with the large backlog of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paper makes four contributions which the authors consider important elements in the discussion on the responsible management of the backlog of case files: a) basic information on the nature of the war crimes machinery established in Bosnia and Herzegovina; b) its economy; c) an analysis of the requirements of a proper inventory of open war crimes files in the criminal justice system of Bosnia and Herzegovina; and d) an analysis of criteria for selection and prioritization of war crimes cases. A generic model for the effective mapping of open war crimes files is developed. The analysis of case selection and prioritization criteria compares practise in Bosnia and Herzegovina with that of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court. It suggests four clusters of key criteria.

• Introduction
• Operations of courts-martial in '14-'18 war conditions
• Core military offences in 1914-1918
• The inquiry
• Trial
• After the trial
• Final conclusions.

"This publication is the first in-depth study of the Belgian military court during World War I. Martial law application and procedures are described in detail and evaluated on the basis of a comprehensive study of previously unexamined archive documents from the Attorney General's Office and the Military Court, including more than 300 attorney general's circulars, about 5,500 judgments and nearly 1,000 military court cases. Criminal procedure, from inquiry to execution, is fully explained through statutes, jurisprudence, circulars and a large number of scientific publications. Martial law practice and its significance for the soldiers are briefly presented and analysed through a number of key questions addressing the language issue and social relations in the army, but also the legal impact of the war, the roles played by military authorities, the relationship between armed forces, etc. This volume contains a...study for all those who want an insight into the prosecution of the military law crimes during World War I."-- Back cover.

• The influence and the toolbox concept : some preliminary considerations pertaining to method
• Belgian federalism : a cursory overview
• The Belgian Constitutional Court and federalism
• European influence on Constitutional Court case law
• Three partial explanations and the road ahead.

• Introduction: articles-- summary of the explanatory memorandum.
• Part 1: introductory provisions.
• Part 2: the authorities and advisory bodies involved in environmental policy.
• Part 3: freedom of access to environmental information.
• Part 4: the decision-making process.
• Part 5: economic and financial instruments.
• Part 6: environmental management within companies.
• Part 7: maintenance.
• Part 8: safety measures.
• Part 9: compensation of damage caused by pollution.
• Part 10: water.
• Part 11: soil.
• Part 12: waste.
• Part 13: noise.
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On 5 July 1989 the Flemish government adopted the decision to set up an Interuniversity Commission for the Revision of Environmental Law in the Flemish Region. The task of the Commission was to "compile a draft Proposed Outline Decree relating to environmental protection, and to make the necessary recommendations to improve the effectiveness of environmental protection law". This book, which is sponsored by the Flemish government, offers the English translation of the Draft Decree and is accompanied by a detailed analysis. The draft is an attempt to achieve a comprehensive codification of Flemish law on environmental protection. The object is to achieve a systematic body of law comprising all the rules in this area of the law, on the basis of a clear notion of the objectives and instruments of environmental policy. The book has been published in conjunction with the proceedings of the Conference on Codification of Environmental Law that was organized on the occasion of the presentation of the Draft Decree to the Flemish government.
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• Introduction
• Institutionalized discrimination
• "State-making nation" in the comparative view
• Legitimization of discrimination through census
• On judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
• Conclusion and recommendations
• Bibliography
• Judgement of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Sejdic and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• Constitutional principles: a historical and sociological account
• The fundamental principles of the Belgian constitution
• Federalism and the multilevel structure of government
• The legislative branch
• The executive power and administration
• The pluralistic judicial system and the constitutional court
• Fundamental rights
• Conclusion : no future for Belgium or a Belgian blueprint for the future?

The Belgian Constitution, once described as a model of consensus democracy, has now become an enigma in comparative federalism. On the one hand, it demonstrates features which suggest institutional instability as well as elements that enhance the probability of secession. On the other hand, Belgium continues to exist as a federal system, based upon linguistic bipolarity. This linguistic bipolarity dominates Belgian politics and has shaped the design of Belgium's institutions as well as the Constitution's fundamental organising principles: concepts of federalism, democracy, separation of powers, constitutionalism and the rule of law. In this book, the institutional structure and the principles governing the Belgian constitutional system are explained in the light of its historical, demographic and political context. Linguistic bipolarity and its historical evolution explain the establishment of the Belgian State structure as a dual federalism, with exclusive powers, instruments for consensus making and obstruction, and elements of confederal decision making. It also explains the evolution in the concept of principles of democracy and the rule of law. Besides describing the devolutionary process, the book also incorporates two other elements that have shaped the Belgian constitutional landscape: fundamental rights and Europeanisation.
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• Deus ex machina : the laws, priorities, and players central to the international administration of post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina / Dina Francesca Haynes
• "Home" and return in the foreign intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina : an anthropological critique / Stef Jansen
• Assuming Bosnia : taking polities seriously in ethnically divided states / Timothy William Waters
• Assessing the accountability of the high representative / Rebecca Everly
• Equality after genocide : jurisprudence of the legal institutions established in Dayton's Bosnia / Sheri Rosenberg
• The Dayton dialectic : the significance of property deprivation and repossession in the context of ethnic cleansing / Charles Philpott and Rhodri C. Williams
• Tackling obstruction to property rights and return : a critical assessment of the practice of removing housing officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Massimo Moratti
• Addressing corruption and organized crime in the context of re-establishing the rule of law / Sebastian van de Vliet
• The elephant in the room : defense reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Ric Bainter
• Rule of law : from the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to the war crimes chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina / Fidelma Donlan.

What has been said of the failures of international administration in Bosnia? What have been identified as successes? Many scholars have commented on the post-conflict reconstruction process as it bore out in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but this interdisciplinary volume offers a unique field view of the rule of law and human rights reform in the reconciliation and reconstruction process. All of the authors worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the ten years after the Dayton Peace Accords were signed. Now they pause to analyze and critique the work they did.The authors come from multiple countries and disciplines and offer insights from within a variety of international organizations, including the Office of the High Representative, the Organization for Security and Cooperation and Europe, and the United Nations. Allowing those who were in the field to identify, discuss, and reflect upon the programs and policies, this collection reveals how the programs were created, what laws they were pursuant to, and what alternatives were rejected and why. The authors not only assess both the positive and negative aspects and outcomes of their work, but also comment on where they believe there may be lessons to be learned for future post-conflict reconstruction scenarios.
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• pt.
• 1. Dictionary of French and Belgian law terms, with concise notices of the Belgian law, in English
• pt.
• 2. Dictionnaire de droit et de termes juridiques anglais, avec de courts exposés de la loi anglaise.