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Title:Editorial : on age and legal genius Author(s):ZGLINSKI, JanDate:2014Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2014, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 1-4Type:ArticleAbstract:Science’s most famous cat was an oddity. Not only did she have the formidable capacity to be both dead and alive when put in a box with radioactive material, her master Erwin Schrödinger was, even at the tender age of 38, ...
Title:Alun Howard Gibbs, Constitutional Life and Europe’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (Ashgate, 2011) Author(s):COUTTS, StephenDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 150-155Type:ArticleAbstract:Publication Review on: Title: Constitutional Life and Europe’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice Author: Alun Howard Gibbs Publisher: Ashgate Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-1409402695
Title:Is the European citizen’s initiative a serious threat for the community method? Author(s):VOGIATZIS, NikosDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 91-107Type:ArticleAbstract:This article proceeds to a normative claim that the potential of the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) – an instrument expected to increase democratic legitimacy in the EU – should be evaluated in the light of the ...
Title:Evolutive treaty interpretation : legality, semantics and distinctions Author(s):TORP HELMERSEN, SondreDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 127-148Type:ArticleAbstract:According to the ICJ, ‘generic’ terms in long-term treaties were presumably intended to be interpreted evolutively. This ‘general rule’ on evolutive interpretation appears simple, but leaves unanswered questions. Moreover, ...
Title:Corrective justice and deterrence : can they co-exist? Author(s):AL-TAWIL, TareqDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 109-125Type:ArticleAbstract:Restitutionary justice and deterrence have completely different types of justification. Although deterrence and restitutionary justice are quite different, this does not prevent the two from sharing the same means to their ...
Title:La question de la nature juridique de l’eau des cours d’eau internationaux : essai d’épistémologie Author(s):QUILLERE-MAJZOUB, FabienneDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 51-77Type:ArticleAbstract:Le grand public considère l’eau comme une ressource naturelle. Le concept de « ressource naturelle » se rapporte d’abord à la ressource vue comme réalité autonome et individualisée. Ce concept reste cohérent avec la ...
Title:The constitutionalization of international law : a comparative federal perspective Author(s):FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 7-26Type:ArticleAbstract:During the last two decades, extraordinary legal developments have taken place at the regional and global level, as the world of international law has become inhabited by a growing number of organizations designed to govern ...
Title:Exemplary damages : a genuine concept? Author(s):JANECEK, VaclavDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 189-206Type:ArticleAbstract:In this article I examine the concept of exemplary damages. Unlike many other studies this paper omits policy reasons and focuses primarily on the very concept of exemplary damages. My aim is thus not to argue for or against ...
Title:Temporal limitation by the Court of Justice of the EU : dealing with the consequences Author(s):MURAUSKAS, DonatasDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 78-95Type:ArticleAbstract:Temporality is one of the tools enabling courts to deal with the consequences of a judgment. The present paper focuses on the special case of temporality in judicial review type judgments, ie the doctrine of temporal ...
Title:Editorial Author(s):ANDREOTTI E SILVA, TiagoDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 2-3Type:Article
Title:Le défi de la délimitation du champ de la protection des droits fondamentaux par la Cour de Justice de l’Union Européenne Author(s):DUBOUT, EdouardDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 5-23Type:ArticleAbstract:Le sens de la protection des droits fondamentaux dans l’Union européenne a changé. A l’origine destinés à s’assurer de la légitimé de l’exercice du pouvoir européen, ils servent désormais de support à une nouvelle contrainte ...
Title:Fragmentation and constitutionalisation of international law : a theoretical inquiry Author(s):DEPLANO, RossanaDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 67-89Type:ArticleAbstract:A growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship addresses the issue of global constitutionalism. Scholarly contributions analyse the allocation of power within rule-systems of international law, how it affects subsequent ...
Title:Heterarchical constitutional structures in the European Legal Space Author(s):HUOMO-KETTUNEN, MeritaDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 47-65Type:ArticleAbstract:The article focuses on the constitutional linkages between national legal orders, the EU legal order, and the ECHR Convention system. The first, and the main, question the article addresses is how these intertwined ...
Title:Eurostat, soft law and the measurement of public debt : the case of public-private partnerships Author(s):VEGA, AlbertoDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 96-118Type:ArticleAbstract:Budget stability seems to be mainly regulated through hard law, but in order to measure public debt, Eurostat has had to complement many aspects with informal instruments such as decisions in press releases, manuals, ...
Title:The functionality of conceptual terms in international law and international legal discourse Author(s):LINDERFALK, UlfDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 27-50Type:ArticleAbstract:Investigating the meaning of conceptual terms is an important task for legal scholars. Traditionally, the meaning of conceptual terms has been analyzed by reference to what those terms describe, namely a relationship ...
Title:On the conceptual origins of the law of unjustified enrichment in the draft common frame of reference Author(s):WRIGHT NELSON, JackDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 119-135Type:ArticleAbstract:Book VII of the Draft Common Frame of Reference presents a codification of the law of unjustified enrichment, derived from European jurisdictions and legal traditions. Yet European private law lacks a ‘common core’ concerning ...
Title:Editorial Author(s):ANDREOTTI E SILVA, TiagoDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 4-6Type:Article
Title:De Minimis Rule within the EU Internal Market freedoms : towards a more mature and legitimate market? Author(s):HOJNIK, JanjaDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 25 -45Type:ArticleAbstract:Deriving from the former internal market Commissioner McCreevy’s statement that the internal market needs to become more decentralised, the article explores to what degree the de minimis rule applies or should apply to the ...
Title:Rent seeking with asymmetric players : an application to litigation expenditures Author(s):SALKIN, SvetoslavDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 157-173Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper uses insights from the literature on rent-seeking contests toanalyze the expenditure decisions of a Defendant and a Plaintiff in the course of their legal battle. It is shown that the total amount of litigation ...
Title:The controversies about legal indeterminacy and the thesis of the ‘norm as a framework’ in Kelsen Author(s):DEL REAL ALCALÁ, Juan AlbertoDate:2013Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 174-188Type:ArticleAbstract:One of the most persistent controversies in law is related to its completeness or incompleteness. In the context of the debate between inconclusive law or the completeness of the law, the main argument of the paper is that ...