Universiteit van Amsterdam (UVA) • Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics

This is a summary of the 2019-2020 Reader for Week 6

Comparative Criminal Law (3803CCQPVY) course summary of Prof Kevin Jon Heller with summaries from WEEK 1 - 5 including: From the literature: * Comparative Concepts of Criminal Law. Auteur: Johannes Keiler David Roef. Uitgever: Intersentia Ltd. * Rethinking Criminal Law - George P. Fletcher. Covering: WEEK 1 INTRODUCTION * Heller & Dubber: Introduction to Comparative Criminal Law * Keiler & Roef III: Framework of Criminal Liability [R v Dudley & Stephens] * Fletcher 6: The Quest for the General...

For the course of History of Legal Theory (3802HIQPVY) find attached the tutorial questions and answers (since 2017-2018, haven't been changed) for each tutorial. Corrections are provided for some questions by the instructions in-class of Robert Weaver. from the literature John Kelly - A Short History of Western Legal Theory Lynn Hunt - Inventing Human Rights It contains the following tutorials: 1A The Greeks [Aristotle, Sophocles] 1B The Romans [Cicero, ius gentium, ius naturale] 2A The Earl...

A compact but complete summary of Robert Schütze's "An Introduction to European Union Law" (second edition, ISBN: 9781107530324). Covering the entire book, so all chapters: Union Institutions / Union Legislation / Union Competences / Fundamental Rights / Internal Market: Free Movement of Goods / Free Movement of Persons (Workers, Right to Self-Establishment) / Direct Effect / Primacy / Competition Law (Cartels) / National Actions (Preliminary Rulings) / European Actions. Includes article r...

Concerning the book International Law of Anders Henriksen for courses on public international law, including topics such as: International Court of Justice (including relevant cases) / Legal sources of international law / United Nations / Critical approaches to international law / Legal realism / International Human Rights Law / The Right to Self-Determination / The Montevideo Treaty / The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) Case law includes: ECtHR Handyside v. UK ECtHR Mann Sing...

The largest portion of the book by René Seerden (ISBN: 9781780686301) on Comparative Administrative Law (4th ed, 2018) is summarised in this summary, including the systems of England, France, Germany and the Netherlands. The summary is organised as the UvA PPLE course on Comparative Administrative Law (3803ADQPVY) is, with a division of topics as: - Separation of Powers - Division between Public Law and Private Law (e.g. two-track doctrine) - Introduction to Administrative Law (e.g. concepts ...

A neatly designed outline of the book 'European Tort Law' by Cees van Dam (ISBN 9780199672271), concerning the relevant aspects of tort law in England, Germany, France and the European Union, covering also judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) concerning the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) and judgments of the European Court of Justice (ECJ, CJEU). All relevant aspects of the book are covered. The topics covered in this outline: - What is tort law? - what is co...

This is a threefold summary of the course Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Amsterdam (3802COQPVY). It consists of three parts: a) ANSWERS TO TUTORIAL QUESTIONS that guide you through the entire 7-week material, including material from Heringa & Kiiver's "Constitutions Compared" (3rd ed. but compatible with 4th ed.), comparing Germany, France, United Kingdom, United States, the Netherlands, European Union (ECHR and ECtHR) material from texts of Ran Hirschl, Karl Loewenste...

This is a summary of the material for the introductory course 'Statistics for Experimental Research', including [in part 1 of this summary] thorough theoretical background and summaries (with, when necessary, formulas and definitions) and a refreshener on basics of doing research; and also [in part 2 of this summary] step-by-step, detailed but concise instructions on how to run different analyses in SPSS. Make sure to pass your introductory Statistics course with this summary! Analyses cover...

Summary of the book 'Economics' (3rd edition) by N. Gregory Mankiw & Mark P. Taylor - for chapters 3 to 14, 20 to 24 and 30 to 33. I've answered the Questions of Review after each of these chapters with relevant definitions, graphs and explanations. Covering topics as: price elasticity, theory of consumer choice, perfect competition, taxation and deadweight loss, behavioural economics, market failure, monopoly, GDP, productivity, unemployment, savings, financial system, business cycles, Keyne...