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 The Enforcement of EC Law Unpublished in the Languages of the New Member States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 ...
Title:The capabilities approach as a bridge between animals and robots
Author(s):LAUKYTE, MigleDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper I argue that robots, understood as artificially intelligent and autonomous entities, may one day be regarded as subjects of rights. The argument is built by looking at Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, ...
Title:The Challenges of EC Consumer Law
Author(s):PONCIBO', CristinaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Following the structure defined in the Review of the Consumer Acquis of 2004, the Commission adopted a Green Paper on 8 February 2007 and launched a consultation on some key issues on the future developments of EC consumer ...
Title:The Charter of Fundamental Rights: History and Prospects in Post-Lisbon Europe
Author(s):ANDERSON Q.C., David; MURPHY, Cian C.Date:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights has been incorporated into European constitutional law ten years after it was adopted by the EU institutions. In that time the Charter developed from a ‘solemn proclamation’ to a ...
Title:Classifications and the Law: Doctrinal Classifications vs. Computational Ontologies
Author(s):FERNÁNDEZ-BARRERA, Meritxell; SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper addresses legal classifications by comparing legal doctrine and computational ontologies. In recent years legal ontologies have attracted a growing interest, not only from knowledge engineers but also from legal ...
Title:Cognitive automata and the law
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The legal nature of digital agents is considered, and it is argued that it is possible to attribute
to such artificial entities intentional (mental) states that are legally relevant. Consequently we
may recognise their ...
Title:Cohérence et action extérieure de l’Union européenne
Author(s):HILLION, ChristopheDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper examines the possible contribution of the Treaty of Lisbon to improve the coherence of EU external relations. In particular, it discusses the transformation of the consistency requirement into a structural ...