Title:The Applicability of International Humanitarian Law to “Transnational” Armed Conflicts
Author(s):VASHAKMADZE, MindiaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:States are increasingly involved in violent conflicts with non-state actors. This new situation
challenges the classical distinction of international humanitarian law (IHL) between international and
non-international ...
Title:Applying Precaution in Community Authorisation of Genetically Modified Products. Challenges and Suggestions for Reform
Author(s):WEIMER, MariaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:RECON Online Working PaperAbstract:In this paper, Maria Weimer endeavour to examine concrete challenges, which arise with regard to implementation of the precautionary principle in the field of European Community regulation of GMOs. Developed by the European ...
Title:Approval Quorums Dominate Participation Quorums
Author(s):MANIQUET, François; MORELLI, MassimoDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We study direct democracy with population uncertainty. Voters' participation is often among the desiderata by the election designer. A participation quorum is a threshold on the fraction of participating voters below which ...
Title:The Arab Spring and the Crisis of the European Border Regime: Manufacturing Emergency in the Lampedusa Crisis
Author(s):CAMPESI, GiuseppeDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The so-called Arab Spring has thrown out of kilter the precarious balance on which the Euro-Mediterranean border-control regime has been built over the years, illustrating the need to set this regime on a new foundation. ...
Title:Arbitrariness of Social and Natural Differences: Luck, Lottery, and Equality
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:It is sometimes argued that social and natural inequalities which are both arbitrary from
a moral point of view should nevertheless have a different moral status in a theory of
justice: while inequalities of a social ...
Title:The Architecture of Transnational Private Regulation
Author(s):CAFAGGI, FabrizioDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Conflicting interests among private actors constitute an important factor to explain why and how
transnational private regulation has grown and the proliferation of standards and standard setting
organizations that has ...
Title:Are Foreign Migrants More Assimilated Than Native Ones?
Author(s):FAINI, Riccardo; STRØM, Steinar; VENTURINI, Alessandra; VILLOSIO, ClaudiaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:IZA Discussion PapersAbstract:The novelties of the paper are two. First the paper compares the pattern of wage assimilation of foreigners with both native immigrants and local natives in Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. ...