Title:Narrowing the gap? Law and new approaches to governance in the European Union
Author(s):WALKER, Neil; DE BURCA, Grainne; TRUBEK, David M.; SCOTT, Joanne; STURM, Susan; SMISMANS, Stijn; HERVEY, Tamara K.; TRUBEK, Louise; ARMSTRONG, Kenneth; KILPATRICK, Claire; MAHER, Imelda; SCHELKLE, WaltraudDate:2007Type of Publication:Article
Title:The National Implementation of Nuclear Export Controls: Developing a best practices model
Author(s):VISKI, AndreaDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The nuclear renaissance promises significant benefits to the international community, but also raises security challenges, particularly relating to the trade of nuclear materials and equipment. The objective of this paper ...
Title:National measures on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing: the case of the Philippines
Author(s):SMAGADI, AphroditeDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The objective of the Convention on Biological Diversity stipulated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992) was not merely to promote the conservation and sustainable use of ...
Title:National Sovereignty and International Organizations
Author(s):MARTIN MARTINEZ, Magdalena MDate:1996Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Examines the reactions of domestic legal systems to the exigencies of international institutional cooperation, looking at to what extant states accept limitations of sovereignty for participation in international organizations, ...
Title:National, European and Community Patent Protection: Time for Reconsideration
Author(s):ULLRICH, HannsDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The completion of a Community system of unitary intellectual property protection has come to a halt when the Commission’s proposal for a Community Patent Regulation was shelved by the Council on political grounds in late ...
Title:Natural Law: Alive and Kicking? A Look at the Constitutional Morality of Sexual Privacy in Ireland
Author(s):O'CONNELL, RoryDate:1996-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article discusses the role of moral argument in the Constitutional case law of the Irish courts. It looks at the debate on the constitutional morality of sexuality in four major cases: a 1973 case protecting the right ...
Title:The Nature of Legal Concepts: Inferential Nodes or Ontological Categories?
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:I shall compare two views of legal concepts: as nodes in inferential nets and as categories in an ontology
(a conceptual architecture). Firstly, I shall introduce the inferential approach, consider its implications,
and ...