Title:Applying Precaution in Community Authorisation of Genetically Modified Products. Challenges and Suggestions for Reform
Author(s):WEIMER, MariaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:RECON Online Working PaperAbstract:In this paper, Maria Weimer endeavour to examine concrete challenges, which arise with regard to implementation of the precautionary principle in the field of European Community regulation of GMOs. Developed by the European ...
Title:Approaches to Legal Ontologies: Theories, Domains, Methodologies
Author(s):SARTOR, Giovanni; CASANOVAS, Pompeu; BIASIOTTI, Maria Angela; FERNÁNDEZ-BARRERA, MeritxellDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Legal ontologies have proved crucial for representing, processing and retrieving legal information, and will acquire an increasing significance in the emerging framework of the Semantic Web. Despite the many research ...
Title:Arbitrariness of Social and Natural Differences: Luck, Lottery, and Equality
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:It is sometimes argued that social and natural inequalities which are both arbitrary from
a moral point of view should nevertheless have a different moral status in a theory of
justice: while inequalities of a social ...
Title:The Architecture of Transnational Private Regulation
Author(s):CAFAGGI, FabrizioDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Conflicting interests among private actors constitute an important factor to explain why and how
transnational private regulation has grown and the proliferation of standards and standard setting
organizations that has ...
Title:Areas of Application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: Fields of conflict?
Author(s):SAFJAN, MarekDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Although the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union has already became a fully binding act of primary EU law, the controversies concerning the area of Charter's application do not seem to cease. Nevertheless, ...
Title:Art, Pornography and Foucauldian Reconstruction of Comparative Law
Author(s):BELAVUSAU, UladzislauDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article inquires into a delicate and often prudish legal problem of erotic art in the paradigmatic dynamics of national law on obscenity and an ever-growing body of international law of cultural heritage. Pornography ...
Title:Art. 31 and Art. 86 EGV, Commentary
Author(s):SCHWEITZER, Heike; MESTMAECKER, Ernst-JoachimDate:2007Type of Publication:Contribution to book
Title:Article 103 of the UN Charter: Strict hierarchy as a last resort
Author(s):LEISS, Johann RubenDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI LLM thesesAbstract:Due to the growing proliferation and specialisation of international law and its actors, on the one hand, and the rising activities of the UN Security Council, on the other, the risk for possible conflicts of UN law with ...
Title:Article 72 : Protection de renseignements touchant à la sécurité nationale
Author(s):BEAUCILLON, CharlotteDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:L’article 72 du Statut de la Cour pénale internationale régit la question de la protection des informations touchant la sécurité nationale. Dans le contexte de la répression des « crimes les plus graves qui touchent ...