Title:Bini Smaghi vs. the Parties: Representative government and institutional constraints
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Although it is generally seen as desirable that parties in government are both responsive and responsible, these two characteristics are now in increasing tension with one another. Prudence and consistency in government, ...
Title:Biomedicine and EU Law: Unlikely Encounters?
Author(s):HENNETTE-VAUCHEZ, StéphanieDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Over the last decade, a significant body of biomedical law has emerged within EU law. In so far as the EU has long been portrayed as aiming mostly if not only at economic integration, it is surprising at face value to see ...
Title:The Bologna Process From a European Law Perspective
Author(s):GARBEN, Sacha Margaretha MariaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The Bologna Process, an intergovernmental process of voluntary policy convergence towards a common higher education structure, poses several concerns from a European law perspective. The Bologna Process takes place outside ...
Title:Borderlines in the Borderlands: Defining difference through history, “race”, and citizenship in Fascist Italy
Author(s):PERGHER, RobertaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper discusses the colony in Libya and the province of South Tyrol under Fascism. It focuses on their status as 'borderlands' and what that meant in terms of defining the difference between the native populations on ...
Title:The Bouchard-Taylor Report on Cultural and Religious Accommodation: Multiculturalism by Any Other Name?
Author(s):TREMBLAY, Luc B.Date:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:In 2008, Gerard Bouchard and Charles Taylor released an important report as Co-Chairs of the
Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences. The
Commission was set up by the Quebec ...
Title:Brain imaging as a diagnostic and as a communicative tool in disorders of consciousness
Author(s):BAGGIO, Giosuè; MORATTI, SofiaDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Recently, a number of neuroimaging studies have been conducted, aimed at detecting signs of consciousness in patients with a diagnosis of vegetative or minimally conscious state. The contributions appeared during an ongoing ...