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 ...
Title:User-Generated Knowledge through Legal Ontologies: How to bring the law into the Semantic Web 2.0
Author(s):FERNÁNDEZ-BARRERA, MeritxellDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis presents a study of the epistemological and cognitive assumptions which currently underlie knowledge acquisition for legal ontology engineering. The hypothesis is that such assumptions might have a qualitative ...
Title:The Equitable Theory of Humanitarian Intervention
Author(s):BURKE, Ciarán J.Date:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis aims at the resolution of a dilemma which has been bothering international lawyers for at least two decades, namely whether armed intervention as a response to gross and massive human rights violations is ever ...
Title:A Dynamic View on Normative Behavior: Agent-based models of law
Author(s):MAYOR, EunateDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:When dealing with norm compliance, we can talk about three different layers. First, law's addressees consider their potential legal liability in case they don't abide the norm. Monetary sanctions, incentives and other ...
Title:The Effects of State Succession on Cultural Property: Ownership, control, protection
Author(s):JAKUBOWSKI, AndrzejDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The purpose of this study was to investigate the legal effects of state succession on cultural property. This is not a new topic of international law. Indeed, the attempts to provide a legal framework for the cultural ...
Title:Systematisation in European Risk Regulation
Author(s):PURNHAGEN, Kai PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis explores the impact of the increasing role of systematisation in European law on the example of EU risk regulation as a reference area. It argues that systematisation in European law has a much wider impact ...
Title:The Evolution of EC Consumer Protection in the Field of Consumer Credit
Author(s):LOBOCKA-POGUNTKE, IngaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Using consumer credit regulation as a case study, this thesis investigates how the specific legislation in this field can be explained by the major streams of economic philosophy. Based on an analysis of the evolution of ...
Title:Market Integration through Data Protection: A EU-Mercosur analysis
Author(s):VIOLA DE AZEVEDO CUNHA, MarioDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In the context of the continuous advance of information technologies and biomedicine, and of the creation of economic blocs, this thesis is devoted to the analysis of the role data protection plays in the integration of ...
Title:Freedom of Expression: European and American constitutional models for Central and Eastern Europe
Author(s):BELAVUSAU, UladzislauDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This doctoral thesis inquires into the role and perspectives of the ‘European’ (mandatory) and ‘USA’ (persuasive) constitutional models of the right to freedom of expression for the constitutional debate in Central and ...
Title:Liberalisation of the Electricity Markets and the Public Service Obligation in the Energy Community
Author(s):KAROVA, RozetaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The focus of the thesis is the liberalisation of the electricity markets in South East Europe (SEE) and the establishment of the Energy Community in 2005 between the European Union and the countries from the SEE. It analyses ...
Title:Trade Mark Paradoxes in European Brand Competition
Author(s):GRANMAR, ClaesDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The development of a uniform European trade mark law regime has taken so many different paths over the past decades that the state of the law is now more or less incomprehensible to everyone. The regime is primarily shaped ...
Title:La construction d'un régime juridique pour la protection des roms
Author(s):IGNATOIU-SORA, EmanuelaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Source d’inspiration romantique pour des Hugo ou des Bizet, objet de mesures répressives prenant des formes aussi diverses que la « chasse aux tsiganes » ou des politiques « éclairées » poursuivant leur sédentarisation et ...