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:Legitimacy and European Private Law
Author(s):BARTL, MarijaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis inquires into the Legitimacy of Harmonisation of European Private law (EPL) against the background of the broader debate on the Legitimacy of the EU, and its socalled Social and Democratic deficits. While the ...
Title:The Right to Personal Identity in the Information Age: A reappraisal of a lost right
Author(s):GOMES DE ANDRADE, Norberto NunoDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis presents a novel conceptualization of the right to personal identity: one that is adapted to the current technological environment in which we live, and that anticipates future technological developments. The ...
Title:The Constitutional Architecture of EU Peacebuilding for Law Enforcement Institutions: Legality and accountability
Author(s):SPERNBAUER, MartinaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This research first sets out to verify whether the measures in the EU’s peacebuilding toolbox indeed turn out to have converging objectives, an overlapping scope and provide for similar activities across the CFSP / non-CFSP ...
Title:Private Regulation and European Integration: Evidence from the payments, professional services and housing sectors
Author(s):JANCZUK-GORYWODA, AgnieszkaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis analyzes the role of private regulation in European integration. Taking three selected sectors – payments, professionals and housing – as a testing ground, this thesis portrays the actual functioning of private ...
Title:Principles and Perspectives of European Criminal Procedure
Author(s):HÜTTEMANN, Suzan DeniseDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis shall contribute to European Criminal Procedure, a rapidly evolving area of EU policy that has attracted much attention, but has also been subject to criticism. The research will first identify and analyse the ...
Title:Understanding and Assessing the EU-Russia Legal Approximation Process: The case study of competition law
Author(s):MATTA, AaronDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Following the Europeanisation studies ‘top-out’ approach in this thesis I analyse the legal approximation process with Russia as a mechanism of acquis export in the backdrop of the various European economic integration ...
Title:L'Union européenne et l'identité constitutionnelle de l'Etat membre
Author(s):MILLET, François-XavierDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:D’un côté de l’échiquier, l’Union européenne, arc-boutée sur la vénérable jurisprudence Internationale Handelsgesellschaft, aspire légitimement, en tant qu’auteur d’un droit commun, à la primauté de l’ensemble de sa ...
Title:Judge-made EU Copyright Harmonisation: The case of originality
Author(s):ROSATI, EleonoraDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Over the last few years, political and academic attention has focused on the future of copyright at the EU level. Following two decades of piecemeal legislative interventions, which have resulted in a limited harmonisation ...
Title:Data Protection and the Prevention of Cybercrime: A dual role for security policy in the EU?
Author(s):PORCEDDA, Maria GraziaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI LLM thesesAbstract:Cybercrime and cyber-security are attracting increasing attention, both for the relevance of Critical Information Infrastructure to the national economy, and the interplay of the policies tackling them with ‘ICT sensitive’ ...
Title:Human Rights Protection Against Private Expropriation: The case of a squeeze-out rule
Author(s):MARCISZ, Ewa MariaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI LLM thesesAbstract:The thesis below provides a study on a squeeze-out rule. It is analyzed in the context of other rules of modern private law which allow for deprivations of property rights for the benefit of private individuals. A squeeze-out ...
Title:Abuse of Union Law and Regulation of the Internal Market
Author(s):SAYDÉ, AlexandreDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Abuses of Union law can be defined as undesirable choices of law made by Union citizens. The treatment of choices of law by Union citizens has proved inconsistent under Union law, being alternatively endorsed (Centros) or ...
Title:EU Cartel Enforcement: Reconciling effective public enforcement with fundamental rights
Author(s):SCORDAMAGLIA-TOUSIS, AndreasDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In light of the growing importance fundamental rights have acquired in competition enforcement and of the ramifications of the Lisbon Treaty (EU accession to the ECHR, binding Charter), this thesis assesses two paramount ...
Title:Fundamental Rights in Europe: Challenges and transformations of a multilevel system in comparative perspective
Author(s):FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This PhD thesis deals with the protection of fundamental rights in Europe. Today, in Europe, fundamental rights are simultaneously protected at the levels of the states, of the European Union and of the European Convention ...
Title:An Affront to the Conscience of Humanity: Enforced disappearance in international human rights law
Author(s):KYRIAKOU, NikolasDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This PhD thesis takes issue with the practice of enforced disappearance as a multiple and complex human rights violation and covers various topics related to enforced disappearance. The point of departure is the historical ...