Title:From Human Rights to Fundamental Rights. Consequences of a conceptual distinction.
Author(s):PALOMBELLA, GianluigiDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This article introduces a peculiar distinction between “human” rights and “fundamental” rights,
explaining through diverse areas, the role that the difference can play. Rights are loaded with
contrasting properties and ...
Title:From Millet to Nation: The Limits of Consociational Resolutions for Middle East Conflict
Author(s):SHIELDS, SarahDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper argues that Europeans worked to transform the bases for group affiliation in territories of
the former Ottoman Empire, insisting on national and linguistic self-identification that created
dissonance among the ...
Title:From Public to Private: Privatization in 1920's Fascist Italy
Author(s):BEL, GermàDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Italy’s first Fascist government applied a large-scale privatization policy between 1922 and 1925. The
government privatized the state monopoly of match sale, eliminated the State monopoly on life
insurances, sold most ...
Title:From the Coup to the Escalation of Violence: The transition to democracy in Romania
Author(s):ROSSI, Federico M.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:Romania was the only example of violent regime change in the central and south eastern European milieu, with massive mobilizations both in favour and against change and the execution of the dictator. In other words, there ...
Title:From the Nation State to the Market: The evolution of EU private law
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; PATTERSON, DennisDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The State exists to deliver security and welfare to citizens. One of the principal functions of the State is to enhance welfare through the production of legal regimes. Law contributes to welfare in many ways, one of which ...