Title:Private law and the visible hand of EU regulation
Author(s):SVETIEV, YaneDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:A question that is central to current debates about the Europeanisation of private law is that of how to conceptualise the relationship between European law and national private law. And a key aspect of that question is ...
Title:Private Military and Security Companies: Positive Human Rights Obligations of the Host State
Author(s):BAKKER, ChristineDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI AELAbstract:This paper examines the positive human rights obligations of states on whose territory private military and security companies (PMSCs) operate. It considers the obligations to prevent human rights violations; the obligations ...
Title:Private Military and Security Company Employees: Are They the Mercenaries of the Twenty-first Century?
Author(s):MANCINI, MarinaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI AELAbstract:This paper investigates whether and in which cases private military and security company employees can be considered mercenaries under international law, in the light of recent practice and academic debate. Firstly, it ...
Title:Private Regulation and Industrial Organisation: The network approach
Author(s):CAFAGGI, Fabrizio; IAMICELI, PaolaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The paper investigates the relation between private transnational regulation through standards and the formation of transnational networks. More particularly, focusing on standards compliance, the analysis is intended to ...
Title:Private Regulation in European Private Law
Author(s):CAFAGGI, FabrizioDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:European private regulation pre-existed European Community law and co-exists with it today, giving rise to different forms of complementarity with European legislation. While in the initial stage of jus commune, a stronger ...
Title:Private Regulation, Freedom of Expression and Journalism: Towards a European approach?
Author(s):CAFAGGI, Fabrizio; CASAROSA, FedericaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The increasing role of electronic media in news and, more generally, in content production is changing the scope and boundaries of the journalism profession and the instruments deployed to regulate the activity. Historically, ...
Title:Private Regulation, Supply Chain and Contractual Networks: The case of food safety
Author(s):CAFAGGI, FabrizioDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Within agriculture industry chains, important changes have taken place. Both vertical integration and
vertical disintegration are occurring. These transformations may have effects on the adoption of
private standards, ...
Title:The Privatization of Military and Security Services and the Limits of Contract Law
Author(s):CALDERAI, ValentinaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP;2010/31Abstract:A growing body of literature has focused in recent years on the potentialities for market mechanisms to improve the enforcement of international human rights law against the breaches committed by private military and ...
Title:Privatization, Regulation and Airport Pricing: An Empirical Analysis for Europe
Author(s):BEL, Germà; FAGEDA, XavierDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper examines factors determining prices that airports charge to airlines. Using data for 100 large airports in Europe, we find that they charge higher prices when they move more passengers. Additionally, competition ...