Title:Genetic Resources, Biotechnology and Human Rights: The International Legal Framework
Author(s):FRANCIONI, FrancescoDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:As with any rapid technological developments, the biotechnology revolution is putting great
strains on the law and its ability to adapt to new realities and challenges. One particularly
pressing need is to assess the ...
Title:German and British Trade Unions: Problems and opportunities after enlargement
Author(s):ZAHN, RebeccaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper examines and compares German and British trade union responses in a European context following the recent European enlargements in 2004 and 2007, enlargements that are unprecedented in the history of the European ...
Title:Good Administration in EU Law and the European Code of Good Administrative Behaviour
Author(s):MENDES, JoanaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The Code of Good Administrative Behaviour has passed fairly unnoticed in academic research on the principle of good administration. However, it is an important source to understand the meaning of this principle and concept ...
Title:The Handling of Insolvency within Trans-European Contractual Networks: Legal issues and possible solutions
Author(s):GIANI, LeonardoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper tries to identify some tools which, in case of insolvency, might prove to be effective in order to take care of the specificities which characterise inter-firm contractual networks. To summarise, this paper is ...
Title:Heuristics in Argumentation: A Game-Theoretical Investigation
Author(s):PRAKKEN, Henry; RIVERET, Régis; ROTOLO, Antonino; SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper provides a game-theoretical investigation on how to determine optimal strategies in dialogue games for argumentation. To make our ideas as widely applicable as possible, we adopt an abstract dialectical setting ...
Title:A Human Dignitas? The Contemporary Principle of Human Dignity as a Mere Reappraisal of an Ancient Legal Concept
Author(s):HENNETTE-VAUCHEZ, StéphanieDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper suggests that the contemporary principle of human dignity in so far as it is
used as means of limiting the exercise of individual freedom (in such landmark cases as
the dwarf-throwing ones, as well as when ...
Title:Human Rights and International Economic Law: Common constitutional challenges and changing structures
Author(s):PETERSMANN, Ernst-UlrichDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This contribution is based on my lecture at the SIDI XVI annual meeting of the Italian Society of International Law in June 2011 at Catania. Section I of this contribution recalls that – due to the ‘dual’ and ‘incomplete ...