Title:Social Justice and Access Justice in Private Law
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:During the C20th, the Member States of the European Union developed their own models of social justice in private law. Each model is inherently linked to national culture and tradition. However, all models have a common ...
Title:Social Networks e Responsabilità del Provider
Author(s):ROSATI, Eleonora; SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Nelle pagine seguenti, dopo aver brevemente descritto le reti sociali e i diversi soggetti e interessi in gioco, si adotterà una prospettiva normativa, indicando quale disciplina potrebbe meglio regolare tali interessi, ...
Title:'Solange, chapter 3': Constitutional Courts in Central Europe – Democracy – European Union
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Soon after the accession of eight post-communist States from Central and Eastern Europe to the EU,
the constitutional courts of some of these countries questioned the principle of supremacy of EU
law over national ...
Title:Source Norms and Self-Regulated Institutions
Author(s):RUBINO, Rossella; SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:In this paper we shall focus on an important class of constitutive norms, which we shall call source-norms,
namely those norms establishing what norms, on basis of what properties, validly belong to a normative
system. ...
Title:Sources of Law in Spain: An Outline
Author(s):DIEZ-PICAZO, Luis MariaDate:1994Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAW
Title:Sovereign Immunity and the Enforcement of International Cultural Property Law
Author(s):PAVONI, RiccardoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The present paper examines the intersection of the law of State immunity and cultural property issues. The primary interest in undertaking this investigation lies in the fact that, while immunity from seizure and other ...
Title:State Discretion as a Paradox of EU Evolution
Author(s):FOROWICZ, MagdalenaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The notion of State discretion is a fundamental concept for the determination of powers and the effective functioning of regional and international legal systems. It is an inherently controversial notion in a system such ...
Title:Statecraft, the Market State and the Development of European Legal Culture
Author(s):AFILALO, Ari; PATTERSON, Dennis; PURNHAGEN, Kai PeterDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:We consider whether the theory of the market-state can explain the features of a common European legal culture. Our thesis is that there is an extant EU legal culture, one which developed through the Europeanisation of ...
Title:Success Chances in Argument Games: A Probabilistic Approach to Legal Disputes
Author(s):RIVERET, Régis; ROTOLO, Antonino; SARTOR, Giovanni; PRAKKEN, Henry; ROTH, BramDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The outcome of a legal dispute, namely, the decision of its adjudicator, is uncertain, and both parties develop
their strategies on the basis of their appreciation of the probability that the adjudicator will accept
their ...
Title:A Sufficientist Approach to Reasonableness in Legal Decision-Making and Judicial Review
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:I shall argue for a sufficientist understanding of reasonableness in legal decision-making: cognitive or moral optimality are not required for reasonableness; what needed is just that a determination—be it epistemic or ...
Title:Sustainable Development and International Law: The Way Forward
Author(s):Working Group on Environmental LawDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This Working Paper collects the contributions that were elaborated for a Roundtable
held at the European University Institute in May 2006. The Roundtable was meant to
discuss the emergence of the new field of studies in ...
Title:Syllogism and Defeasibilty: A Comment on Neil MacCormick’s Rhetoric and the Rule of Law
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper provides a review of Rhetoric and the Rule of Law, by Neil MacCormick, focussing
on the role of logic in legal reasoning. In particular it considers the connection between syllogism,
formal methods and rhetoric, ...
Title:Taking Collective Interest of Consumers Seriously: A View from Poland
Author(s):SAFJAN, Marek; GORYWODA, Lukasz; JANCZUK-GORYWODA, AgnieszkaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:An increased focus on consumer collective redress marks the shift from substance- to
enforcement-oriented perspective in the EU consumer policy. The EU action in this
regard is currently at the stage of feasibility study ...
Title:Taking International Law Seriously. On the German Approach to International Law
Author(s):DUPUY, Pierre-Marie; TRAISBACH, KnutDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The short article outlines the systemic characteristics of what is identified here as the
German approach to international law. Starting from the post-WW II situation of
German legal scholarship, the paper describes a ...