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Gender Competent Family Law
This chapter discusses the construction of family and family law as central tenets of gender equality projects in law and society. It begins with a...
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Enforceability and Enforcement Appeals: Continental Law
This article is dedicated to the presentation of the different regulations of enforcement titles in the legal systems of the EU Member States with...
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Balancing Cultural Claims and Universal Rights in Finnish Family Law
This chapter addresses cultural and religious diversity in Finnish family law. It reviews legislation, case law and existing research on the...
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Challenging Patriarchism in the Family: Law Reform and Female Protest in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe
The article deals with the struggle of the European women’s movements for equal rights in the family in the nineteenth and twentieth century and the...
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Sources of Inspiration of Nordic Procedural Law: Choices and Objectives of the Legal Reforms
This article is based on the following question: does Nordic procedural law exist? Procedural law is often regarded as a national matter, and, unlike...
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Courts and Proceedings: Some Nordic Characteristics
This paper will discuss the characteristics of the court system and proceedings in the Nordic countries. The analysis is based on the idea of Nordic...
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Labour Law and Gender
The chapter presents an overview of key labour law institutions, aiming at discussing the importance of the gender perspective in labour law....
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Copyright Law in the European Union, the United States and China
This study juxtaposes copyright law in the European Union (EU), the United States (US) and the People’s Republic of China (China). After map**...
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Europeanisation of Nordic Civil Procedure: Does the Map Match the Terrain?
EU law has a tangible influence on the civil procedure law in the Nordic countries. This chapter explores how EU civil procedure law is practised and...
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Courts, Law, Language and Culture
This article deals with some questions of legal language in the Nordic countries. It stresses the fact that, while there is no common legal language...
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Interpretation in International Law
This chapter analyses the importance of interpretation and the different interpretation methods in international law. It takes a closer look at what...
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The Past, Present and Future of Nordic Courts
Based on the insights from the previous chapters in this volume, this concluding chapter discusses key traits of Nordic courts: colloquial legal...
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Rethinking Nordic Courts: An Introduction
Europeanisation, globalisation, privatisation, diversification and digitisation are trends that all exert an influence on courts and the justice...
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Group Actions in East-Nordic Legal Culture
In Sweden, a system of group actions has been in force since 2003. The original aim was to see about 20 such actions a year. In actual fact, in the...
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Culture and Mentality in East-Nordic Courts
In this chapter, the East-Nordic, that is Finnish and Swedish, court culture and mentality and its historical, cultural and societal roots are...
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Gender Perspective of Social Security Law
The main purpose of Social Security Law is to regulate the social protection provided to those who, while carrying out a professional activity, find...
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Between Law and Geopolitics
This chapter brings together the threads of the geopolitical reality and legal (in)action of the EU since Lisbon, and makes the case that...
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Institutional Aspects of the Nordic Justice Systems: Striving for Consolidation and Settlements
This chapter maps the structure of the Nordic justice systems and explores whether and why one could argue that there is a ‘Nordic’ structure. The...