Title:Good Governance via the OMC? The cases of Employment and Social Inclusion
Author(s):DE LA PORTE, CarolineDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article focuses on how the EU, via the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), governs the employment and social inclusion policies of the EU Member States. It derives three operational governance principles – Participation, ...
Title:Google's Obligation to De-index Constitutional Court Decisions Published in the Spanish Official Journal
Author(s):BLASI CASAGRAN, Cristina; BLASI CASAGRAN, EduardDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the both the premises and effects of the landmark decision, adopted in March 2012 by Spanish data protection authority (DPA), by which the DPA recognised itself as competent to require Google to ...
Title:Governance, Proceduralisation and Justice: Some Challenges to the Legal Paradigm
Author(s):HENDRY, JenniferDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In 1989, Rudolf Wiethöltner alleged that we are witnessing a ‘failure of law’ in terms of its obligation to achieve ‘just law’. This paradox at the very heart of law – in essence, the impossibility of the realisation of ...
Title:Governmentalizing Sovereignty: Indexes of state fragility and the calculability of political order
Author(s):BHUTA, NehalDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter examines the construction of an index of state fragility by the United States Agency of International Development. It explores the genesis of the interest in the measuring of state-ness, and describes the ...
Title:Great expectations : the fair and equitable treatment standard in the international law of foreign investment
Author(s):TUDOR, IoanaDate:2006Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The treatment of foreign investors and of their investments on the territory of a host State is often subject to a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) signed by the national State of the investors and the host State. These ...
Title:A Green Way Out? or The Effects of Environmental Protection on the Public Enforcement Mechanism
Author(s):BORZSÁK, LeventeDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis argues that the present provisions on public enforcement are inadequate for the effective promotion of compliance with Community law and seeks to provide solutions in order to improve them. Article 226 and 228 ...