Title:Prince or pariah? : the place of freedom of religion in a system of international human rights
Author(s):ZUCCA, LorenzoDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The human right to freedom of religion (HRFR) at the international level is a deeply contested concept and is interpreted in radically different ways in the respective historical constitutional instruments of the US and ...
Title:Religious freedom and the German circumcision debate
Author(s):HEIMBACH-STEINS, MarianneDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In May 2012, a German court in Cologne ruled that circumcising young boys represents grievous bodily harm. This decision, which touched upon the questions of freedom of religious practice, identity and children’s rights, ...
Title:Through a Glass Darkly or a Mirror Clear? Study of the general restrictions to Human Rights
Author(s):REITER-KORKMAZ, AxelleDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis analyses the general restrictions to the exercise of human rights in three parts; dealing respectively with the limits of individual rights and the aim and specificity of general restrictions, states of emergency, ...
Title:Law and Security: Facing the dilemmas
Author(s):SCHEININ, Martin; [et al.]Date:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The current volume in the EUI Law Department series of working papers results from the collaboration between the Department and the Finnish national Centre of Excellence Foundations of European Law and Polity, led by ...
Title:Integrating human rights in WTO law on cultural and educational goods and services
Author(s):MORIJN, JohnDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis analyses how parallel international legal obligations to protect human rights and to liberalise trade in educational and cultural goods and services in the framework of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) can ...
Title:Improving the EU Immigration System: Reflections in the Light of the Return Directive
Author(s):OLMOS GIUPPONI, Maria BelenDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper focuses on the current state of EU immigration legislation and aims to provide a critical analysis and suggestions for improvement in the future. Over the past ten years, EU Summits have emphasized the need for ...
Title:Human Rights and Transnational Corporations: For a multi-level governance approach
Author(s):O'BRIEN, ClaireDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis argues for adoption of a multi-level governance perspective with regard to the problematic of the regulation the human rights impacts of transnational business, on three main grounds. First, that the multi-level ...
Title:Solange, chapter 3': constitutional courts in Central Europe - democracy - European Union
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Soon after the accession of eight post-communist states from Central and Eastern Europe to the EU, the constitutional courts of some of these countries questioned the principle of supremacy of EU law over national ...
Title:The responsibility of multinational enterprises for human rights violations in European Union law
Author(s):GATTO, AlexandraDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis addresses the question as to how the European Union can ensure that EU based MNEs respect human rights when operating in third countries. Firstly, it identifies primary obligations on MNEs as developed by ...
Title:Designing the European Union
Author(s):ELERA, Álvaro De; PSYCHOGIOPOULOU, Evangelia; GALLALA, Imen; ZALETEL, Petra; VALLINDAS, Georges; PETIT, Isabelle; ROGAHN, Maria; CHABAN, Natalia; BAIN, Jessica; STATS, KatrinaDate:2006Type of Publication:Article
Title:Economic liberalisation of education provision within the EC & WTO: a human rights perspective
Author(s):MORIJN, JohnDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper addresses the impact of WTO- and EC-driven liberalisation of trade in services on non-trade policies. Adopting a human rights perspective, which is given as having a critical bearing on both 'trade' and 'non-trade' ...