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. ...
Title:The Constitutional Architecture of EU Peacebuilding for Law Enforcement Institutions: Legality and accountability
Author(s):SPERNBAUER, MartinaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This research first sets out to verify whether the measures in the EU’s peacebuilding toolbox indeed turn out to have converging objectives, an overlapping scope and provide for similar activities across the CFSP / non-CFSP ...
Title:Constitutional dilemmas : conflicts of fundamental legal rights in Europe and in the USA
Author(s):ZUCCA, LorenzoDate:2005Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation deals with one of the most important issues of philosophy of law and constitutional thought: that of conflicts of fundamental rights Comparative analysis, with perspectives from European and American legal ...
Title:The Constitutional Foundations of Competition: Economic freedom and its (self-) limitation
Author(s):ANDRIYCHUK, OlesDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The task of this thesis is to provide a conceptual analysis of the phenomenon of competition law. It argues that the competitive process represents a distinctive feature of liberal democracy. The suggested constitutional ...