Title:Assessing Non-horizontal Mergers: The role of legal rules and integration of economic analysis
Author(s):SVETLICINII, AlexandrDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis is targeting a complex topic of integration of economic analysis (economic theories and evidence) into the legal framework of EU merger control. Inspired by the calls for a "more economic approach" in EU ...
Title:Le contrôle de la constitutionnalitée des accords internationaux conclus dans le cadre de l'Union Eurpéenne
Author(s):GÖRANSSON, Frida-LouiseDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Ce travail étudie la tension, telle qu’elle ressort de la jurisprudence de la Cour de justice de l’Union, (la Cour) entre d’un côté la sauvegarde des principes pacta sunt servanda, de la sécurité juridique et de la protection ...
Title:User-Generated Knowledge through Legal Ontologies: How to bring the law into the Semantic Web 2.0
Author(s):FERNÁNDEZ-BARRERA, MeritxellDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis presents a study of the epistemological and cognitive assumptions which currently underlie knowledge acquisition for legal ontology engineering. The hypothesis is that such assumptions might have a qualitative ...
Title:The Equitable Theory of Humanitarian Intervention
Author(s):BURKE, Ciarán J.Date:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis aims at the resolution of a dilemma which has been bothering international lawyers for at least two decades, namely whether armed intervention as a response to gross and massive human rights violations is ever ...
Title:A Dynamic View on Normative Behavior: Agent-based models of law
Author(s):MAYOR, EunateDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:When dealing with norm compliance, we can talk about three different layers. First, law's addressees consider their potential legal liability in case they don't abide the norm. Monetary sanctions, incentives and other ...
Title:The Effects of State Succession on Cultural Property: Ownership, control, protection
Author(s):JAKUBOWSKI, AndrzejDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The purpose of this study was to investigate the legal effects of state succession on cultural property. This is not a new topic of international law. Indeed, the attempts to provide a legal framework for the cultural ...
Title:Market Integration through Data Protection: A EU-Mercosur analysis
Author(s):VIOLA DE AZEVEDO CUNHA, MarioDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In the context of the continuous advance of information technologies and biomedicine, and of the creation of economic blocs, this thesis is devoted to the analysis of the role data protection plays in the integration of ...
Title:The Function of Proportionality Analysis in European Law
Author(s):HARBO, Tor-IngeDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The aim of the thesis is to explore the function of proportionality analysis (PA) as a tool of judicial adjudication in European law. In this effort the author analyses in the first part of the thesis the way in which ...
Title:The Settlement of International Cultural Heritage Disputes: Towards a lex culturalis?
Author(s):CHECHI, AlessandroDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:International practice in the past twenty years has shown the proliferation of a great variety of disputes concerning cultural heritage. However, no specialized dispute settlement mechanism is in place to deal with this ...
Title:The Constitutional Foundations of Competition: Economic freedom and its (self-) limitation
Author(s):ANDRIYCHUK, OlesDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The task of this thesis is to provide a conceptual analysis of the phenomenon of competition law. It argues that the competitive process represents a distinctive feature of liberal democracy. The suggested constitutional ...