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:Abuse of Union Law and Regulation of the Internal Market
Author(s):SAYDÉ, AlexandreDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Abuses of Union law can be defined as undesirable choices of law made by Union citizens. The treatment of choices of law by Union citizens has proved inconsistent under Union law, being alternatively endorsed (Centros) or ...
Title:An Affront to the Conscience of Humanity: Enforced disappearance in international human rights law
Author(s):KYRIAKOU, NikolasDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This PhD thesis takes issue with the practice of enforced disappearance as a multiple and complex human rights violation and covers various topics related to enforced disappearance. The point of departure is the historical ...
Title:Aggression, the crime of crimes: a study of individual liability for the unlawful use of force
Author(s):VILLARINO VILLA, CristinaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Ever since the Nuremberg Tribunal delivered its historic judgment, the principle of individual criminal liability for the unlawful use of force has been characterized by an unbridgeable gap between theory and practice. ...
Title:All Originals: Fiction and reality of multilingual legal drafting in the European Union and Canada
Author(s):DOCZEKALSKA, AgnieszkaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The phenomenon of multilingual law stems from official multilingualism, which usually requires not only that the law should be enacted in all official languages, but also that texts of a single legal instrument expressed ...
Title:The Application of Article 82 EC to Exclusionary Abuses: Evolution or revolution?
Author(s):ROUSSEVA, EkaterinaDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The present thesis explores the application of Article 82 to exclusionary abuses throughout the history of the Community Courts’ jurisprudence with the purpose of identifying the evolution and the outstanding problems in ...
Title:Article 81 : putting public policy in its place
Author(s):TOWNLEY, ChristopherDate:2005Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation discusses the role of public policy in Article 81 of the EC Treaty. The Commission, and recently the Court of First Instance have said that the sole objective of Article 81 EC is consumer welfare. Many ...
Title:Assessing Non-horizontal Mergers: The role of legal rules and integration of economic analysis
Author(s):SVETLICINII, AlexandrDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis is targeting a complex topic of integration of economic analysis (economic theories and evidence) into the legal framework of EU merger control. Inspired by the calls for a "more economic approach" in EU ...
