Title:Validity As Bindingness: The Normativity of Legality
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:I shall argue that the concept of (valid) law is a purely normative notion, irreducible to any factual
description. This uncontroversial notion, which is shared by all approaching the law from
the internal point of view, ...
Title:The Visible Hand of European Regulatory Private Law
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The title “The Visible Hand of European Regulatory Private Law” should make clear
what I identify to be the major gap not only in political discourse but also in legal
doctrine and in legal theory concerning European ...
Title:Welfare Integration through EU Law: The Overall Picture in the Light of the Lisbon Treaty
Author(s):DAMJANOVIĆ, Dragana; DE WITTE, BrunoDate:2008Series/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The authors present a synthetic view of the evolution of the impact of EU law on the provision of welfare services in the member states of the EU. They distinguish, in this regard, between the core welfare services, in ...
Title:Welfare, Resources, and Luck-Egalitarianism
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The leading discourse about luck egalitarianism has been informed by the distinction
between equality of welfare and equality of resources. This paper attempts to illuminate its
significance by focusing on the status of ...
Title:What Price for the Community Enforcement of WTO Law?
Author(s):ARCURI, Alessandra; POLI, SaraDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Under the World Trade Organization (WTO) legal framework, when a violation is deemed to occur,
Members have recourse to a quasi-automatic dispute settlement system. If the breach persists after the
WTO Dispute Settlement ...
Title:Which Governance for European Private Law?
Author(s):CAFAGGI, FabrizioDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The paper describes the necessity to consider the role of private rule making and the
increasing importance of national regulatory agencies, in the process of European legal
integration. It then focuses on the legislative ...
Title:Why Lawyers Are Nice (or Nasty). A Game-Theoretical Argumentation Exercise
Author(s):SARTOR, Giovanni; RUDNIANSKI, Michel; ROTOLO, Antonino; RIVERET, Régis; MAYOR, EunateDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This contribution introduces a novel approach to study legal interactions, legal professions, and legal
institutions, by combining argumentation, game theory and evolution. We consider a population of
lawyers, having ...
Title:WIPO and the Public-Private Web of Global Intellectual Property Governance
Author(s):WECHSLER, AndreaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has always been recognized as an important international economic institution for the global governance of intellectual property (IP) law. Moreover, its role in promoting, ...