In the Shadow of Luxembourg

An international colloquium held in 2009 joined the forces of Tilburg University's Law School in the Netherlands (which had organized several previous symposia) and the Institute for Contract Law at Leuven University (Belgium). This volume results from that collaboration, bringing together the presentations and a number of policy documents. Contributions address public policy effects in the short and medium term, recent developments in regulation in the European Union, the perspective of the Swedish presidency, practical implications of the Santa Casa judgment, a comprehensive EU gambling services policy (is there a future?), and views from the British Isles, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, among other topics. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Alan Littler, Ph.D. (2009) in Law, Tilburg University, is a post-doctoral researcher. His main interests focus upon the regulation of gambling in the EU, and he has published Member States versus the European Union: The Regulation of Gambling (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010).Nele Hoekx, Ph.D. (2010) in Law, Leuven University, is a post-doctoral researcher with a doctoral thesis in the field of online gambling. Besides gambling law she mainly works in the field of contract law.Cyrille Fijnaut is professor of international and comparative criminal law at Tilburg University, with a broad range of interests including organised crime and terrorism and European criminology. He recently edited The future of police and judicial cooperation in the European Union (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010)Alain-Laurent Verbeke is Full Professor of Law at the Universities of Leuven and Tilburg and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He has written numerous publications in the field of contracts, property, estate planning and negotiation. He is also attorney at the Bar of Brussels (Greenille).