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 ...
Title:Beyond market access? : the anatomy of ASEAN’s preferential trade agreements
Author(s):KLEIMANN, DavidDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This study seeks to enhance the understanding of ASEAN’s external preferential trade agreements (PTA) in context of the recent growth of economic regionalism in East Asia. First, the paper compares the content of ASEAN’s ...
Title:Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements as a Challenge to the Multilateral Trading System
Author(s):HERRMANN, Christoph W.Date:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Whether bilateral or regional trade agreements are rather friends or rivals of the
multilateral trading system is an evergreen question of international economic law.
Recent times clearly show an ever faster increase of ...
Title:The Binding Force of Babel. The Enforcement of EC Law Unpublished in the Languages of the New Member States
Author(s):BOBEK, MichalDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper explores some of the issues raised by the absence of due publication of EC
secondary legislation in the languages of the new Member States after the 2004 Accession.
It first lays down general principles regarding ...
Title:The Bologna Process From a European Law Perspective
Author(s):GARBEN, Sacha Margaretha MariaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The Bologna Process, an intergovernmental process of voluntary policy convergence towards a common higher education structure, poses several concerns from a European law perspective. The Bologna Process takes place outside ...
Title:The Bouchard-Taylor Report on Cultural and Religious Accommodation: Multiculturalism by Any Other Name?
Author(s):TREMBLAY, Luc B.Date:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:In 2008, Gerard Bouchard and Charles Taylor released an important report as Co-Chairs of the
Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences. The
Commission was set up by the Quebec ...
Title:Brain imaging as a diagnostic and as a communicative tool in disorders of consciousness
Author(s):BAGGIO, Giosuè; MORATTI, SofiaDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Recently, a number of neuroimaging studies have been conducted, aimed at detecting signs of consciousness in patients with a diagnosis of vegetative or minimally conscious state. The contributions appeared during an ongoing ...