Title:Understanding and Assessing the EU-Russia Legal Approximation Process: The case study of competition law
Author(s):MATTA, AaronDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Following the Europeanisation studies ‘top-out’ approach in this thesis I analyse the legal approximation process with Russia as a mechanism of acquis export in the backdrop of the various European economic integration ...
Title:Unitas in diversitate? On legal cultures and the Europeanisation of law
Author(s):HENDRY, JenniferDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis argues for a sociologically observable equilibrium between the competing forces of legal unity and legal diversity within the European Union (EU) in order to conceptualise the contested process of the Europeanisation ...
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:'Weaving a silver thread' : human rights coherence in EU foreign affairs and counter-terrorism
Author(s):GOLABEK, MichalDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Human rights are among the chief values on which the EU is ‘founded’ (Art. 6 TEU) and which it seeks to promote through its external relations (Art. 21 TEU). Coherence with values is a significant rhetorical tool which is ...