Title:John Morley and the liberal imagination: The uses of history in English liberal culture, 1867-1914
Author(s):DE WAARD, Jacob MarinusDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The aim of the present study is to offer a new understanding of the ‘uses of history’ in English liberal culture between the passing of the Second Reform Act of 1867 and Britain’s entrance in the First World War in August ...
Title:The Joint Impact of Party Politics and Institutional Constraints on Social Policy Reforms in Open Economies
Author(s):HÜBSCHER, EvelyneDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Financial resources. My study contributes to the welfare state reform literature by proposing and testing a novel argument based on a multi-dimensional framework of social policy-making. In a nutshell, the results of the ...
Title:Judge-made EU Copyright Harmonisation: The case of originality
Author(s):ROSATI, EleonoraDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Over the last few years, political and academic attention has focused on the future of copyright at the EU level. Following two decades of piecemeal legislative interventions, which have resulted in a limited harmonisation ...
Title:Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters: A policy area uncovered
Author(s):STORSKRUBB, EvaDate:2006Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation examines a burgeoning policy area of the EU - the regulation of cross border civil and commercial litigation. The dissertation analyses the EU's specific legislative measures regulating civil procedure ...
Title:Judicial federalism from a comparative perspective: Spain, the United States and the United Kingdom
Author(s):CASANAS ADAM, ElisendaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis aims to highlight the importance of the organisation and functioning of the judicial power in complex or composite polities and its relevance as a determinative element of the complex or composite nature of the ...
Title:Justice through Legal Dispute
Author(s):RALLI, TommiDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This study asks what justice is in the situation where two sides are disputing and, in particular, how a third party should act justly in deciding the matter. A paradigm of this situation is legal dispute, and in the main ...
Title:Justified Non-Intervention? International responsibility and grave humanitarian crises
Author(s):PELTONEN, HannesDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The traditional debate concerning humanitarian intervention has changed since the publication of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) report. This thesis addresses both the debate before the publication of the R2P report ...