• The Netherlands uses civil law. The role of case law is small in theory, although in practice it is impossible to understand the law in many fields without...
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    simply as the Netherlands, is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united under the monarch of the Netherlands, who functions...
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    to the entire Kingdom of the Netherlands, which includes the country of the Netherlands itself, Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten. The Netherlands is a...
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  • the Netherlands is governed by the Dutch Copyright Law (called Auteurswet), copyright (auteursrecht in Dutch) is the exclusive right of the author of...
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    There are twelve provinces of the Netherlands representing the administrative layer between the national government and the local governments, with responsibility...
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    formalities of communication between the States General of the Netherlands, and the monarch's role in creating laws. The Kingdom of the Netherlands has been...
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    countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands consists of twelve provinces; it borders Germany to the east and Belgium to the south, with...
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    opiate-dependent patients in the Netherlands. Large-scale dealing, production, import and export are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, even if it does not...
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  • to be both a subject of controversy, and even ridicule, in the Netherlands. According to a separate law, known in Dutch as the Wet inburgering in het...
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  • notaries. According to the Chambers and Partners legal directory, the top five law firms in the Netherlands are Allen & Overy Netherlands, De Brauw Blackstone...
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  • Patent law in the Netherlands, or simply Dutch patent law, is mainly governed by the Kingdom Patents Act (Dutch: Rijksoctrooiwet) and the European Patent...
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    The prime minister of the Netherlands (Dutch: Minister-president van Nederland) is the head of the executive branch of the Government of the Netherlands...
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    Prostitution in the Netherlands is legal and regulated. Operating a brothel is also legal. De Wallen, the largest and best-known Red-light district in...
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    The politics of the Netherlands take place within the framework of a parliamentary representative democracy. A constitutional monarchy, the country is...
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  • Administrative law is a division of law governing the activities of executive branch agencies of government. Administrative law includes executive branch...
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  • In the Netherlands, child pornography is illegal, making it one of the 103 out of 193 UN member states where it is illegal. According to the Wetboek van...
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    Social work, e.g., in case of domestic violence Netherlands portal Criminal justice system of the Netherlands Law of the Netherlands Royal Marechaussee Fiscal...
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    The States General of the Netherlands (Dutch: Staten-Generaal [ˈstaːtə(ŋ) ˌɣeːnəˈraːl] ) is the supreme bicameral legislature of the Netherlands consisting...
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    simply Tweede Kamer) is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands, the States General, the other one being the Senate. It has 150 seats...
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    documents governing the Kingdom of the Netherlands as well as the fundamental law of the European territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is generally...
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    2004) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980. Juliana was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin...
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  • Euthanasia in the Netherlands is regulated by the "Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act" which was passed in 2001...
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    her primary and secondary education in the Netherlands in the post-war period. In 1961, she received her law degree from Leiden University. In 1966,...
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    November 1962) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, making her the longest-reigning monarch...
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    gemeenten) in the Netherlands. The latter is the status of three of the six island territories that make up the Dutch Caribbean. Municipalities are the second-level...
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  • The Netherlands has ten public (i.e. state-funded) universities with a dedicated law faculty (in no particular order): University of Amsterdam (UvA) Amsterdam...
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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Netherlands. Netherlands – parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy...
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    Demographic features of the population of the Netherlands include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the population, economic status...
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    The national flag of the Netherlands (Dutch: de Nederlandse vlag) is a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. The current design originates as a...
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    The history of the Netherlands extends back long before the founding of the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon. For...
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