Title:Lebanon’s Versatile Nationalism
Author(s):FAKHOURY MUEHLBACHER, TamiraceDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The paper tackles the different interpretations of Lebanon's multi-faceted nationalism in a theoretical perspective, then analyses the dynamics of the emergent Lebanese national ethos after the 2005 Independence Intifada. ...
Title:The Legacy of the Maastricht-Urteil and the Pluralist Movement
Author(s):BAQUERO CRUZ, JulioDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The Maastricht-Urteil of the German Constitutional Court of October 1993 has left a deep mark on
European Union law. Although some may consider it as part of legal history, the decision has never
been overruled, and the ...
Title:Legal analysis of economic policy
Author(s):DAINTITH, TerenceDate:1982Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI Working Papers
Title:Legal Basis and Scope of the New EU-Ukraine Enhanced Agreement. Is there any room for further speculation?
Author(s):PETROV, RomanDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper conducts a critical analysis of the potential legal basis and scope of the future European Union (EU)-Ukraine enhanced agreement. Accepting that the most probable and most beneficial possibility for Ukraine is ...
Title:Legal Concepts: An Inferential Approach
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The inferential and eliminative analysis of legal concepts proposed by Alf Ross will be connected to the views of
theoretical concepts in science advanced by Frank Ramsey and Rudolf Carnap. Consequently, the mere ...
Title:Legal Conflicts and Subnational Constitutionalism
Author(s):DELLEDONNE, Giacomo; MARTINICO, GiuseppeDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper analyses the increasing use of the concept of subnational identity, understood as a peculiar (to some extent) category that is opposed to the State or federal identity. References to it are included in the ...
Title:Legal Europeanization as Legal Transformation: Some Insights from Swiss “Outer Europe”
Author(s):MAIANI, FrancescoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The “Europeanization” of non-EU countries’ laws is predominantly seen as an “export”
of the EU acquis, especially in the case of so-called “quasi-member” states such as
Switzerland. Based on an examination of the Swiss ...
Title:Legal Implications of the Privatization of Cyber Warfare
Author(s):LIXINSKI, LucasDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI AELAbstract:The paper deals with the combination of two emerging topics in militarization and the conduct of war:
cyber warfare and the use of private military and security companies and personnel. As technological
capacity grows, ...
Title:Legal Innovation in European Contract Law: Within and Beyond the (Draft) Common Frame of Reference
Author(s):MÖSLEIN, FlorianDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The Europeanization of contract law has continuously developed over the past 25 years. It is now at a defining stage, with the Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) recently being published. This article is not primarily ...
Title:Legal Integration in the EU: the unitas in diversitate Conundrum and the Importance of Considering Culture
Author(s):HENDRY, JenniferDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Tilburg Institute of Comparative & Transnational LawAbstract:An obvious downside of any slogan or motto is that it is necessarily a simplified version of what it attempts to convey. Thus while they may provide a handy hook, the very 'catchiness' and accessibility of mottoes often ...
Title:Legal Issues in Medical Computer Software and Expert Systems in United States. Legislation and Practice
Author(s):FIORIGLIO, GianluigiDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Today, hospitals are heavily computerized, but this process is still far from its ultimate goals and suffers from many deficiencies. Good quality software, correctly used, can improve health care under many different ...
Title:A Legal Method for Solving Issues of Internet Regulation; Applied to the Regulation of Cross-Border Privacy Issues
Author(s):SVANTESSON, Dan Jerker B.Date:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This article presents a legal method that can be used to find solutions to the challenges of regulating Internet technology. The method consists of ten steps and the reader is guided through the application of these steps. ...
Title:Legal Validity: An Inferential Analysis
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:I will argue that the concept of (valid) law is a normative notion, irreducible to any factual description.
Its conceptual function is that of relating certain (alternative sets of) properties a norm may possess to ...
Title:Legality Policies and Theories of Legality: From “Bananas” to Radbruch’s Formula
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:I shall argue that issue of legal validity or legality (I will use these two terms as synonymous) can be
addressed by taking an inferential stand, namely, by considering under what preconditions (antecedents)
the legality ...