Title:Sovereignty and Subsidiarity in EU Environmental Policy
Author(s):GOLUB, JonathanDate:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explores the connection between the subsidiarity principle and national sovereignty in the context of EU environmental policy. In addition to providing an historical account of this connection, the article ...
Title:The SPS Agreement within the Framework of WTO Law. The Rough Guide to the Agreement’s Applicability
Author(s):GRUSZCZYNSKI, LukaszDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper highlights some of the deficiencies in the WTO-DSB-Panel's analysis of EC-Bio Products. These include lack of consistency in the use of interpretative tools as well as over reliance on the dictionary meaning of ...
Title:State Aids and Environmental Taxes: The Northern Ireland exemption to the UK aggregates levy
Author(s):PASTOR MERCHANTE, FernandoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Case T-359/04 British Aggregates Association and others v. Commission [2010] NYR. The General Court annuls Decision C(2004) 1614 final, in which the Commission declared that the modified exemption to the aggregates levy ...
Title:The Status of Nuclear Export Control Regimes in International Law
Author(s):VISKI, AndreaDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:During an October 2008 speech to the Nuclear Energy Agency, IAEA Director General Mohamed Elbaradei stated that more than fifty countries had expressed interest in developing nuclear power programs to meet their growing ...
Title:Striking a Balance between Property and Personality. The Case of the Avatars
Author(s):GOMES DE ANDRADE, Norberto NunoDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Virtual worlds, as powerful social platforms of intense human interaction,
gather millions of users worldwide, producing massive economies of their own,
giving rise to the birth of complex social relationships and the ...
Title:Systems in Context: On the Outcome of the Habermas/Luhmann-debate
Author(s):KJAER, PoulDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Usually regarded as a 1970s phenomenon, this article demonstrates that the debate between Jürgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann continued until Luhmann’s death in 1998, and that the development of the two theorists’ positions ...