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 ...
Title:Taking Reasoning Seriously: The role of courts in enforcing argumentative rationality
Author(s):PASKALEV, VescoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The regulation of new technologies, as well as many other areas of our increasingly complex and interdependent societies, involves high uncertainty which grants broad epistemic discretion to the usually unelected regulators. ...
Title:A Teleological Approach to Legal Dialogues
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper aims at connecting two ideas that play a fundamental role in Robert Alexy’s theory
of legal reasoning, namely, on the one hand the idea of a dialogue and on the other hand the idea
of a value (a goal to be ...
Title:Temporal Reasoning and MAS
Author(s):SMITH, Clara; ROTOLO, Antonino; SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:In this paper we investigate if it is possible and useful to reason about time within social/normative multi-agent systems (MAS) by taking into account the general guidelines of tense logic. We focus on the combination of ...
Title:Three-dimensional Conflict of Laws in Europe
Author(s):KJAER, PoulDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:ZERP - Discussion PapersAbstract:The EU is a structure which is positioned 'in-between' hierarchically organized nation-state governing structures and heterarchically structured global governance structures. Thus, the EU is a hybrid which partly relies ...
Title:To Strike or not to Strike : Assessing the Legality of a Potential Strike against Iran’s Nuclear Facilities
Author(s):HOFMEISTER, HannesDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This working paper deals with a highly topical issue in public international law:
the legality of a preemptive military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. It analyses
whether such a strike would violate the ...