In 1978, UNESCO Secretary General Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow compared cultural colonial objects to ‘witnesses to history’. Their treatment is one of the most debated questions of our time. Calls for a... Show moreIn 1978, UNESCO Secretary General Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow compared cultural colonial objects to ‘witnesses to history’. Their treatment is one of the most debated questions of our time. Calls for a novel international cultural order go back to decolonization. However, for decades, the issue has been treated as a matter of comity or been reduced to a Shakespearean dilemma: to return or not to return. This book seeks to go beyond these classic dichotomies. It argues that contemporary practices are at a tipping point. It shows that cultural takings were material to the colonial project throughout different periods (early takings, birth of modern nation state, nineteenth-century scramble for objects) and went far beyond looting. It relies on micro histories and object biographies to trace recurring justifications and contestations of takings and returns, and the complicity of anthropology, racial science, and professional networks in colonial collecting. It demonstrates the dual role of law and cultural heritage regulation in enabling colonial injustices, and mobilizing resistance thereto. It challenges the argument that takings were acceptable according to the standards of the time. Drawing on the interplay between justice, ethics, and human rights, it develops a theory of entanglement to rethink contemporary approaches. It shows that future engagement requires a reinvention of knowledge systems and relations towards objects, including new forms of consent, provenance research, partnership and a rethinking of the role of museums themselves. It proposes principles of relational cultural justice to confront ongoing historic, legal, and economic entanglements and enable normative transformation. Show less
Tenth edition of the Netherlands manual on how to refer to literature, case law, legislation and other sources in law publications written in Dutch. How to do footnotes, bibliographies,... Show moreTenth edition of the Netherlands manual on how to refer to literature, case law, legislation and other sources in law publications written in Dutch. How to do footnotes, bibliographies, abbreviations etc. (157 pages). Its first edition came out in 1997. Show less
Zowel de Verklaring Omtrent het Gedrag (VOG) als de bestuurlijke boete heeft als bestuursrechtelijk instrument de afgelopen decennia een proliferatie doorgemaakt. De VOG is als vorm van... Show moreZowel de Verklaring Omtrent het Gedrag (VOG) als de bestuurlijke boete heeft als bestuursrechtelijk instrument de afgelopen decennia een proliferatie doorgemaakt. De VOG is als vorm van antecedenten screening in onze samenleving ingeburgerd geraakt en wordt voor een toenemend aantal functies aangevraagd. De bestuurlijke boete wordt, anders dan oorspronkelijk beoogd, steeds vaker toegepast bij zware, complexe overtredingen en ook worden hoge boetes gesteld op relatief lichte feiten. Dit stelt ons voor de vraag in hoeverre het wenselijk is dat bestuurlijke boetes, hoe hoog ook, nooit in de VOG-screening kunnen worden betrokken, terwijl strafrechtelijke sancties, hoe licht ook, in beginsel altijd hierin kunnen worden betrokken. Dit onderzoek gaat op basis van juridisch-empirisch onderzoek in op zowel de realiseerbaarheid als de wenselijkheid van het betrekken van bestuurlijke boetes bij de VOG-screening. Aan de hand van een casestudy naar handhaving en integriteit in de financiële sector, waarvoor interviews zijn gehouden bij onder meer toezicht houders en beroepsverenigingen, zijn hiervoor uiteenlopende criteria, gezichtspunten en randvoorwaarden geformuleerd. Deze houden zowel de huidige VOG-regeling en de daarop gebaseerde beoordelingspraktijk als de bestuurlijke boete een spiegel voor. Show less
Hingh, A. de; Konijnenbelt, H.; Bartels, C.; Borman, T.; Waaldijk, C.; Wees, L. van der 2019
Ninth edition of the Netherlands manual on how to refer to literature, case law, legislation and other sources in law publications written in Dutch. How to do footnotes, bibliographies,... Show more Ninth edition of the Netherlands manual on how to refer to literature, case law, legislation and other sources in law publications written in Dutch. How to do footnotes, bibliographies, abbreviations etc. Show less
Within the framework of social law, the position of temporary agency work has always been a source of some debate. There is an area of tension between the aim for more flexible types of labour on... Show moreWithin the framework of social law, the position of temporary agency work has always been a source of some debate. There is an area of tension between the aim for more flexible types of labour on the one hand and maintaining decent labour relations on the other. For that reason the ILO has engaged in private labour intermediation ever since it was founded. While there was a tendency to forbid, or at least restrict private intermediation in the early years, gradually it became more accepted that, among others, temporary agency work had its merits and that a total ban was useless. In 1997, this culminated in ILO-convention 181, which received wide support. This did not put a stop to the discussion about non-standard types of paid employment. Which types of labour can be considered decent? How do they relate to the human rights? What are the effects of globalisation? At the European level, too, close attention was paid to (for instance, cross-border) temporary agency work. Lastly, the Netherlands itself has it own unique type of public-private regulation. The starting point is the question whether Convention 181 still has value. What are the developments in the social domain with regard to temporary agency work? How do they relate to the various types of flexible labour that are gradually catching up with temporary agency work? The fact that Convention 181 features among the most ratified ILO conventions that have been effected since 1990 makes clear that it is clearly meeting a need. While Convention 181 has met with policy competition from developments such as: decent-isation, human rightification, IFA-isation and Europeanisation, they have not affected its value. Convention 181 advances decent flexibility and fights informal labour and human trafficking.Doctoral Thesis: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/44709 Show less
Schuijt, G.A.I.; Konijnenbelt, H.; Hingh, A.E. de; Sint Truiden, M.P. van; Waaldijk, C.; Wees, J.G.L. van der 2016
This thesis explores a conception of the EU as a modified confederal system of sovereign member peoples and their states. A confederal conception which demonstrates how, contrary to popular belief,... Show moreThis thesis explores a conception of the EU as a modified confederal system of sovereign member peoples and their states. A confederal conception which demonstrates how, contrary to popular belief, European integration does not conflict with sovereignty or democracy. For, properly conceived and constituted, the EU reasserts the sovereignty of the member peoples, and liberates national democracy from the confines of the state. To this end, this thesis reconnects the EU to two classic constructs of constitutional theory: confederalism and sovereignty. Two powerful but unfashionable constructs whose joint potential for European integration remains largely unexplored and undervalued. The primary instrument to explore this potential is comparative. The EU is contrasted with the rather unknown but rich example of the American Articles of Confederation, and their evolution into the now famous American federate system. A comparison with the confederal roots of the United States which is revealing for both confederalism and sovereignty, and illustrates the potential of linking both for a constructive constitutional theory of the EU. A theory which does not have to overcome history and the statal system it has created, but connects with it. A theory, therefore, that may help to recapture the EU and the increasing authority it wields, both in theory and in practise. The thesis is subdivided in three parts. Part I addresses confederalism. It demonstrates how the constitutional system of the EU combines a confederal foundation with a federate superstructure, and explores the particular strengths, weaknesses and limits of this modified confederal system. Part II discusses sovereignty. It first demonstrates how the EU forms a logical confederal evolution of popular sovereignty, and how European integration does not conflict with sovereignty. Subsequently, it shows how the concept of confederal sovereignty equally helps to dispel the presumed conflict between statism and pluralism, how it respects and conciliates national and EU claims to supremacy, and how it allows a confederal evolution of national democracy, which updates democracy to the global reality it is to control. Part III applies the findings of Part I and II to the EMU crisis and the challenge of establishing an effective democratic foundation for the EU at the national level. An application which demonstrates the concrete and attractive contributions a confederal approach can make to addressing some of the core challenges facing the EU. Show less
The right to establish and develop relationships with other human beings was first articulated - as an aspect of the right to respect for private life - by the European Commission of Human Rights... Show moreThe right to establish and develop relationships with other human beings was first articulated - as an aspect of the right to respect for private life - by the European Commission of Human Rights in 1976. Since then such a right has been recognized in similar words by national and international courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This lecture traces the origins of this right, linking it to the meaning of the word "orientation" and to the basic psychological need for love, affection, and belongingness. It proposes to speak of "the right to relate" and argues that this right can be seen as the common theme in all issues of sexual orientation law (ranging from decriminalization and anti-discrimination to the recognition of refugees and of same-sex parenting). This right can be used as the common denominator in the comparative study of all those laws in the world that are anti-homosexual or that are same-sex-friendly. The right to establish (same-sex) relationships implies both a right to come out and a right to come together. The right to develop (same-sex) relationships is being made operational through legal respect, legal protection, legal recognition, legal formalization, and legal recognition of foreign formalization. Show less
Schuijt, G.A.I.; Konijnenbelt, H.; Sint Truiden, M.P. van; Waaldijk, C.; Wees, J.G.L. van der 2013
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