Title:War by Contract: Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, and Private Contractors
Author(s):FRANCIONI, Francesco; RONZITTI, NatalinoDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Provides a comprehensive analysis of the application of human rights and international humanitarian law to the work of private military and security companies
Addresses questions of a highly topical nature, such as the ...
Title:War Contexts: The Criminal Responsibility of Private Security Personnel
Author(s):QUIRICO, OttavioDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI AELAbstract:This paper explores the criminal accountability of Private Security Company (PSC) personnel in war contexts. It focuses on the legal position of PSC personnel, defined on the basis of the relationship linking PSCs to the ...
Title:The ‘War on Terror’ and the United Kingdom’s Constitution
Author(s):ELLIOTT, MarkDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:That its “unwritten” nature makes the United Kingdom’s constitution extremely flexible is a truism if not a cliché. It is, nevertheless, a phenomenon that has never been more clearly evident than in the last ten years. No ...
Title:'Weaving a silver thread' : human rights coherence in EU foreign affairs and counter-terrorism
Author(s):GOLABEK, MichalDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Human rights are among the chief values on which the EU is ‘founded’ (Art. 6 TEU) and which it seeks to promote through its external relations (Art. 21 TEU). Coherence with values is a significant rhetorical tool which is ...
Title:Wedding a Critical Legal Pluralism to the Laws of Close Personal Adult Relationships
Author(s):MaCDONALD, Roderick; McMORROW, ThomasDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Among private lawyers trained in Western European or Western European-derived legal traditions there is broad consensus about the central features of law. This consensus crystallizes around the features that distinguish ...
Title:Welfare Integration through EU Law: The Overall Picture in the Light of the Lisbon Treaty
Author(s):DAMJANOVIĆ, Dragana; DE WITTE, BrunoDate:2008Series/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The authors present a synthetic view of the evolution of the impact of EU law on the provision of welfare services in the member states of the EU. They distinguish, in this regard, between the core welfare services, in ...
Title:Welfare, Resources, and Luck-Egalitarianism
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The leading discourse about luck egalitarianism has been informed by the distinction
between equality of welfare and equality of resources. This paper attempts to illuminate its
significance by focusing on the status of ...