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Social Security Law in Small Jurisdictions

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Authors:
  1. Danny Pieters

    1. Department of Law, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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  • First book to deal with the specific problems and issues confronted by social security (law) of small jurisdictions
  • Tests some general conceptions on the reality of 20 small states and territories from all over the world
  • Presents a fresh view on what makes social security of small jurisdictions special
  • Formulates some recommendations all small jurisdiction may benefit from

Part of the book series: The World of Small States (WSS, volume 8)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-45
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    2. Aruba

      • Danny Pieters
      Pages 47-58

    3. Buthan

      • Danny Pieters
      Pages 59-71

    4. Curaçao

      • Danny Pieters
      Pages 73-84

    5. Cyprus

      • Danny Pieters
      Pages 85-94

    6. Faroe Islands

      • Danny Pieters
      Pages 95-104

    7. Fiji

      • Danny Pieters
      Pages 105-115

    8. Gibraltar

      • Danny Pieters
      Pages 117-126

    9. Greenland

      • Danny Pieters
      Pages 127-135

    10. Grenada

      • Danny Pieters
      Pages 137-146

    11. Guyana

      • Danny Pieters
      Pages 147-154

    12. Iceland

      • Danny Pieters
      Pages 155-167

    13. Liechtenstein

      • Danny Pieters
      Pages 169-184

    14. Maldives

      • Danny Pieters
      Pages 185-194

    15. Malta

      • Danny Pieters
      Pages 195-203

    16. San Marino

      • Danny Pieters
      Pages 205-214
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About this book

The book examines whether small jurisdictions (states) are confronted with specific issues providing social security and how to deal with these issues. How is social security law impacted by the smallness of the jurisdiction? First, the author examines the key concepts ‘small jurisdiction’ and ‘social security’ as he understands them in the present research. He then pays some attention to the relation between social security and social security law and subsequently makes an excursion to explore the notion of legal transplants. In the second part, the author first examines the main features characterizing small states according to the general literature on small states, focusing on features which may be relevant to social security. He also includes an overview of the (limited) literature dealing with the specific social security issues small jurisdictions have to deal with. In other words, the second part provides the reader with the status quaestionis. In the third part, the author takes a look at the social security systems of 20 selected small jurisdictions. He does so according to a uniform scheme, in order to facilitate their comparison. These 20 case studies allow him in a next part to test the correctness of the statements made in Part 2. In the fourth part, he compares the social security systems of the 20 small jurisdictions. He draws conclusions as to the main question, but also to test the validity of the current literature on the topic as described in Part 2. Special attention goes to the use of legal transplants for the definition of the personal scope of social security arrangements. In the concluding part of the book, the author formulates some suggestions for the benefit of the social security systems of the small jurisdictions, based on his research.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Law, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Danny Pieters

About the author

Danny Pieters is a full professor at KU Leuven (Belgium). He holds the chair of Social Security Law and the chair of Comparative Law at the KU Leuven Law School. He is head of the Research Unit Europe and Social Security (RUESS) and programme director of the European Master Social Security. Danny is the founder and current director of the Small Jurisdictions Research Group. He served also as Member of the Belgian Federal Parliament (including as the President of the Senate in 2010/2011) and as vice rector of KU Leuven. Since 2021 he is judge in the Belgian Constitutional Court.

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