Title:The Force and Forms of European Legal Integration
Author(s):AZOULAI, LoicDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper addresses the problem of the integration of EU law into the national legal systems. By what title can EU law impose its norms on domestic legal orders, and so much so that the conditions in which the rule-making ...
Title:A Formal Prescriptive Approach to General Principles of (International) Law
Author(s):QUIRICO, OttavioDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:From the analytical viewpoint a norm can formally be regarded as a right-duty (or
claim-obligation) relation (1) that regulates behaviour (action/inaction) (2) among
subjects (3) in definite space (4) and time (5). In ...
Title:Formalising Arguments about the Burden of Persuasion
Author(s):PRAKKEN, Henry; SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper presents an argument-based logic for reasoning about allocations of the burden of persuasion.
The logic extends the system of Prakken (2001), which in turn modified the system of Prakken & Sartor
(1996) with ...
Title:Four Visions of Constitutional Pluralism
Author(s):AVBELJ, Matej; KOMÁREK, JanDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:What is constitutional pluralism? What does it stand for? What does it want to achieve,
contribute, or change in the European integration? Is it a viable, desirable or perhaps
even an indispensable theoretical take on ...
Title:Framework for Economic Development in EU External Relations
Author(s):PODSTAWA, Karolina; PUCCIO, Laura; BOTTA, Marco; DE ANDRADE CORREA, Fabiano; CREMONA, Marise; DUBAVA, Ilze; FAKHOURY MUEHLBACHER, Tamirace; PODSTAWA, Karolina; PUCCIO, Laura; SILGA, JanineDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This Working Paper is a collection of contributions presented during the Workshop "Framework for Economic Development in EU External Relations on 22nd and 23rd January 2010. The contributions explore various facets of what ...
Title:Free Trade Agreements and WTO Law: A Perspective on the Trade in Services
Author(s):WANG, HengDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:China’s free trade agreements in services are developing at a fast pace. This paper examines the major differences between these agreements and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and their relationship with ...
Title:Free Trade with Hazardous Products? The Emergence of Transnational Governance with Eroding State Government
Author(s):JOERGES, ChristianDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The historical evolution of free trade has been accompanied by a plethora of debates, concerning both its positive effects and social costs. During the last decade, the subject of these disputes has markedly changed. The ...
Title:From Human Rights to Fundamental Rights. Consequences of a conceptual distinction.
Author(s):PALOMBELLA, GianluigiDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This article introduces a peculiar distinction between “human” rights and “fundamental” rights,
explaining through diverse areas, the role that the difference can play. Rights are loaded with
contrasting properties and ...
Title:From the Nation State to the Market: The evolution of EU private law
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; PATTERSON, DennisDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The State exists to deliver security and welfare to citizens. One of the principal functions of the State is to enhance welfare through the production of legal regimes. Law contributes to welfare in many ways, one of which ...
Title:From Where Can War be Thought?
Author(s):PALOMBELLA, GianluigiDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:What is the importance of the perspective “from which” war is seen and studied? what
consequences derive from its changing (e.g. thanks to legal rules and social
institutions)?. The perspective question can be instantiated ...
Title:The Fundamentalisation of Social Rights
Author(s):EUI Social and Labour Law Working GroupDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The place and legal value of social rights in the EU Charter is only one episode (albeit a long drawn out episode, lasting since 2000)in the ongoing struggle about the ‘fundamentalisation’ of social rights, which is the ...
Title:The Future of Environmental Law: International and European Perspectives [COLLECTED REPORTS 2004-2005]
Author(s):EUI - Working Group on Environmental LawDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The materials collected in this Working Paper are the result of intensive and interactive
discussions that took place in the Working Group on Environmental Law of the European
University Institute during the 2004-2005 ...
Title:The Future of International Economic Law: A Research Agenda
Author(s):PETERSMANN, Ernst-UlrichDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This final chapter draws conclusions from the second edition of Constitutionalism, Multilevel Trade
Governance and International Economic Law by discussing the diverse conceptions of international
economic regulation ...