Title:The Promise of European Integration. Improving the Quality of Democracy in the European Neighborhood
Author(s):MAZMANYAN, ArmenDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The recent research on EU’s role in democratization in the post-communist world has been primarily
concerned with its new member states of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the prospective
member states. A great ...
Title:Prospects for EU-Russia Relations
Author(s):CAMERON, Fraser; MATTA, AaronDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Electronic Publications of Pan-European Institute
Title:Providers’ Liabilities in the New EU Data Protection Regulation: A threat to internet freedoms?
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:In this paper I shall consider certain aspects of the Proposal for a Data Protection Regulation recently advanced by the EU Commission, which is meant to substitute the existing Data Protection Directive as well as the ...
Title:Quantity or Quality? Re-Assessing the Role of Supreme Jurisdictions in Central Europe
Author(s):BOBEK, MichalDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Over the last decades, the ever growing caseload in supreme and constitutional
jurisdictions all around Europe has forced some of them to reassess the role and
functions they should be fulfilling. This article offers, ...
Title:Race Judicata. Rien ne va plus for Race and Ethnicity in France and Europe?
Author(s):MOSCHEL, MathiasDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The French Constitutional Council recently declared that “racial and ethnic origins” are not objective legislative criteria and conflict with Article 1 of the French Constitution. Both earlier case law as well as the ...
Title:Rationale behind the Establishment of the Energy Community
Author(s):KAROVA, RozetaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper deals with the Energy Community established between the countries from SEE and the European Union. It serves as an example of the extension of the energy acquis to the countries from SEE, before the later become ...
Title:Realism, Utopia and the Future of International Environmental Law
Author(s):FRANCIONI, FrancescoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:In spite of its impressive development at the level of treaty law and soft law, international environmental law remains a weak and under-developed body of law. This is due especially to the persistent institutional “deficit” ...
Title:“Reasonableness” and Value Pluralism in Law and Politics
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:In law, the category of reasonableness, when used in a “strong sense”, is inherently lied
up with proportionality, and also with the test of necessity, and thus is a guarantee of a
minimal restriction of constitutional ...
Title:Reasons for Justice, Rights and Future Generations
Author(s):PALOMBELLA, GianluigiDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This article focuses on some very “fundamental threats” to future generations’ leaving, and
considers whether most essential interests of future persons not to be harmed can be
construed as rights, and in particular as ...
Title:Reconceiving Law and New Governance
Author(s):WALKER, Neil; DE BURCA, GrainneDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This essay re-examines the concepts of Law and New Governance with a view to
pursuing three cumulative objectives. First, it emphasizes that both law and new
governance are deeply contested concepts whose meaning and ...
Title:Rediscovering the Spirit of Competition: On the Normative Value of the Competitive Process
Author(s):ANDRIYCHUK, OlesDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The normative argument of this paper is that competition should constitute a fundamental value of liberal democracy. The antitrust law thereby should primarily address the deontological issues of protection and promotion ...