Publications
If there is a single, central activity that typifies METRO, it is the institute's capacity for groundbreaking research publications. METRO publishes, maintains, collaborates on, and produces analyses of, a large volume of academic publications, from the institute's own books, papers, reports, and theses to the Ius Commune Casebooks, the Ius Commune Europaeum Books, the Maastricht Journal and UM's Dovenschmidt Quarterly.
METRO publications
Selected book publications
Smart Mixes for Transboundary Environmental Law
Cambridge University Press
Edited by Judith van Erp, Michael Faure, André Nollkaemper and Niels Philipsen
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Market Integration: The EU Experience and Implications for Regulatory Reform in China
China-EU Law Series, Springer
Edited by Niels Philipsen, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Stefan E. Weishaar, University of Groningen, the Netherlands and Guangdong Xu, China University of Political Science and Law, China
Civil Liability and Financial Security for Offshore Oil and Gas Activities
Cambridge University Press
Edited by Michael Faure, Professor of Comparative and International Environmental Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
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Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law
METRO publishes The Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law. The Journal provides literature enabling both the European professional and academic lawyer to grapple with the special difficulties presented by the concept of Ius Commune Europaeum. The Maastricht Journal gives a deeper understanding of the extent to which there are common strands in law shared by the countries of Europe.
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Ius Commune Casebooks
A joint project of the law faculties of UM and KU Leuven that compiles case law and other source materials, introductory comments, explanatory notes and comparative overviews, for each main field of the law. The Casebooks mainly focus on the three major European legal systems and their interplay with EU and ECHR law. The website also contains supplementary reading materials and original language versions of non-English cases.
Ius Commune Europaeum Books
A book series focusing on the common foundations of EC member-state legal systems. The Europaeum series includes horizontal comparative legal studies and studies on the effect of treaties within national legal systems. All the classic fields of law are covered. Published in various European languages, under the auspices of METRO, by Intersentia Publishers in Antwerp (Belgium).