Title:Abortion: Challenges to the Status Quo
Author(s):KRAVARITOU, Yota; SHELDON, SallyDate:1994Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAW
Title:Acceptance and Social Rules
Author(s):PERRY, AdamDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:One of HLA Hart’s main contributions to jurisprudence is his theory of social rules. Hart claimed that a social rule has an external, behavioural aspect, and an internal, attitudinal aspect. However, Hart’s description of ...
Title:Addressing Liability of Automated Systems in Air Traffic Management
Author(s):CONTISSA, GiuseppeDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In the current operational scenario of Air Traffic Management (ATM), liability is mainly allocated to the operators who are responsible for air traffic control and air navigation. However, this scenario will rapidly change: ...
Title:Administrative and Judicial Collective Enforcement of Consumer Law in the US and the European Community
Author(s):CAFAGGI, Fabrizio; MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:In the consumer society, as it stands today in Western-type democracies, consumers
have a far larger choice of products and services originating from all over the world
than they did decades ago. Risks associated with ...
Title:Administrative and Judicial Enforcement in Consumer Protection: The Way Forward
Author(s):CAFAGGI, Fabrizio; MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The paper analyses the relationship between administrative and judicial enforcement in Consumer Protection. It first sets out the European state of development with regard to injunctions, thereby focusing on the different ...
Title:After finalité? The Future of the European Constitutional Idea
Author(s):WALKER, NeilDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper sets out to examine the prospects for EU constitutionalism in the light of the protracted and perhaps insuperable difficulties surrounding the ratification of the 2004 Constitutional Treaty. It argues that these ...
Title:Air Traffic Management in the Single European Sky: Standardisation of safety and liability issues
Author(s):SIMONCINI, MartaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper aims to analyse the European system of Air Traffic Management (ATM) as a specific case study of risk regulation in the framework of the European integration process. At the present, the implementation of the ...
Title:Ambient Intelligence and the Right to Privacy: The challenge of detection technologies
Author(s):MONTELEONE, SharaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Unprecedented advances in Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and their
involvement in most of private and public activities are revolutionizing our daily life and
the way we relate to our environment. If, on ...
Title:Another Legal Monster? An EUI debate on the fiscal compact treaty
Author(s):AZOULAI, Loic; POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel; DE WITTE, Bruno; CREMONA, Marise; HYVÄRINEN, Anna; KOCHAROV, Anna; ABDALLAT, Anwar; KOCHAROV, AnnaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:On 1 February 2012, member states of the European Union minus the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic agreed on the text of the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (the ...
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: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:Areas of Application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: Fields of conflict?
Author(s):SAFJAN, MarekDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Although the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union has already became a fully binding act of primary EU law, the controversies concerning the area of Charter's application do not seem to cease. Nevertheless, ...
Title:Au-delà des traités: l’émergence d’un nouveau droit coutumier pour la protection du patrimoine culturel.
Author(s):FRANCIONI, FrancescoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The rapid development of international law for the protection of cultural heritage in the
past half century has occurred mainly at the level of treaties and to a certain extent of
soft law. But what is the status of ...
Title:Authority, Arbitration and the Claims of the Law
Author(s):VINX, LarsDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper argues that Raz’s ‘normal justification thesis’ fails to explain how the law can meaningfully claim arbitrative authority. Given that the law’s claim to authority is usually understood to amount to (or at least ...