Title:Voting Rights for Non-Citizens: The European Multilevel and US Federal Constitutional Systems Compared
Author(s):FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article analyzes the regulation of voting rights for non-citizens in the European multilevel architecture and in the US constitutional systems. It argues that the interaction between different state and transnational ...
Title:Who is To Blame? Liability of "Economic Units" for Infringements of EU Competition Law
Author(s):SVETLICINII, AlexandrDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The ECJ’s ruling in Knauf Gips case (C-407/08P) further develops the concept of a «single economic unit» that allows attribution of liability for anti-competitive conduct in cases involving complex corporate structures ...
Title:Why Are Lawyers Nice or Nasty? Insights From Agent-Based Modeling
Author(s):MAYOR, Eunate; SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:All substantive areas of law, with no exception, have a common concern for the processes by which legal disputes get resolved. Naturally, the success of any particular litigation strategy in a legal dispute depends on ...
Title:The Wittem Group and the Project of a European Copyright Code
Author(s):ROSATI, EleonoraDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:--Legal context: The issue of further harmonisation of copyright at the European level is currently at the centre of one of the most interesting debates on the future of intellectual property law. In 2002 a group of leading ...
Title:WTO Origin Rules for Services and the Defects: Substantial Input Test as One Way Out?
Author(s):WANG, HengDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The origin of services is often one of the issues that regulators have to address to determine whether there is trade in services. It is also indispensable for the application of preferential trade commitments including ...
Title:Yahoo! Liable for Contributory Infringement by Display of Links to Infringing Websites
Author(s):ROSATI, EleonoraDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Comment to PFA Films S.r.l. v Google Italy, Microsoft S.r.l. and Yahoo! Italia S.r.l., Tribunale di Roma, ordinanza, 20 March 2011. By an ordinanza (interim injunction), the Tribunale di Roma (Rome court of first instance) ...