Title:Children's Socio-Economic Rights and the Courts: Evaluating an activist approach
Author(s):NOLAN, AoifeDate:2005Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Despite the significant growth in academic interest in both children's rights and socio-economic rights over the last two decades, children's socio-economic rights are a comparatively neglected area. This is particularly ...
Title:Committing the Irreparable: Law and dealing with past injustice
Author(s):LÖYTÖMÄKI, Stiina Outi HelenaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis examines the role of law in contemporary memory politics relating to the Algerian war, colonialism and the Vichy government in France. The Algerian war replaced Vichy in the first decade of the 21st century as ...
Title:Comparative Reasoning in European Supreme Courts: A study in foreign persuasive authority
Author(s):BOBEK, MichalDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This study deals with the use of comparative arguments as non-mandatory (persuasive) authority in judicial decision-making at the level of national supreme jurisdictions. The study has two elements: empirical and theoretical. ...