De Schutter: 13 books

'In het middelpunt van morele overwegingen staat het Zelf; in het middelpunt van politieke overwegingen staat de Wereld.' Deze controversiële uitspraak van Hannah Arendt maken Dirk De Schutter en Remi Peeters tot de centrale stelling van hun boek. Ze geven een uiteenzettting van Arendts politieke...

De colleges van Hannah Arendt over de late (politieke) geschriften van Immanuel Kant kunnen worden beschouwd als voorstudies voor wat het afsluitende deel van 'Het leven van de geest' moest worden: een boek over het oordelen. Dirk De Schutter en Remi Peeters verzorgen een nieuwe vertaling van deze...

The leading textbook on international human rights law is now better than ever. The content has been fully updated and now provides more detailed coverage of substantive human rights, along with new sections on the war on terror and on the progressive realization of economic and social rights, making...

How do you keep students motivated when their perception of a subject conflicts with the reality of its academic study? International human rights law, unquestionably an exciting field, is also complex and demanding. In his breakthrough textbook, De Schutter focuses on international human rights law...

En 2014, la nouvelle loi bancaire du 25 avril 2014 était l’enfant né de la crise financière. Elle était imprégnée très largement par le droit européen. Quelques mois plus tard, il était temps de faire le point sur cette réglementation à la lumière de la transposition de ces textes dans...

Aujourd'hui, la faim et ses 850 millions de mal nourris ne sont plus victimes de l'ignorance ou des incidents climatiques, mais de la cupidité, de l'incurie et de l'indifférence. C'est ce que montre ce livre argumenté, optimiste et pédagogique : il s'agit d'un phénomène politique, et son élimination...

Food Movements Unite! Strategies to transform our food systems The present corporate food regime dominating the planet’s food systems is environmentally destructive, financially volatile and socially unjust. Though the regime’s contributions to the planet’s four-fold food-fuel-finance and climate...

In the Bretton Woods era, trade liberalization, the improvement of labour rights and working conditions, and the strengthening of environmental policies, were seen as mutually supportive. But is this always true? Can we continue to pretend to protect the rights of workers and to improve environmental...

From household appliances to applications in robotics, engineered systems involving complex dynamics can only be as effective as the algorithms that control them. While Dynamic Programming (DP) has provided researchers with a way to optimally solve decision and control problems involving complex dynamic...

This casebook, the result of the collaborative efforts of a panel of experts from various EU Member States, is the latest in the Ius Commune Casebook series developed at the Universities of Maastricht and Leuven. The book provides a comprehensive and skilfully designed resource for students, practitioners,...

This book contributes to making urban rail transport fast, punctual and energy-efficient –significant factors in the importance of public transportation systems to economic, environmental and social requirements at both municipal and national levels.  It proposes new methods for shortening passenger...

The recent rise of "smart" products has been made possible through tight co-design of hardware and software. The growing amount of software and hence processors in applications all around us allows for increased flexibility in the application functionality through its life cycle. Not so long ago a device...

During the last decade, concrete technology has made an enormous advance through the introduction of self-compacting concrete. This application of nanotechnology in construction provides benefits from the perspective of materials technology and environmental protection and is presenting diverse opportunities...