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 ...
Title:Katholiken im Kalten Krieg : Ein Beitrag zur politischen Kultur der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1957-1983
Author(s):GERSTER, DanielDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis examines how Catholics in West Germany participated in public discourses on war and peace during the major period of the Cold War (1957-1983). As a result, the study provides new insights into the transformations ...
Title:Keeping up with the Medici! Three essays on social comparison, consumption and risk
Author(s):DIJK, OegeDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis investigates the influence of social comparison (i.e. comparing ones outcomes with others such as neighbours, colleagues, etc) on consumption and risk-taking. The first essay (joint with Robert H. Frank and ...
Title:Kon-Tiki and the postwar journey of discovery
Author(s):ANDERSSON, AxelDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:A Hero for the Atomic Age tells the story of how Heyerdahl organized an expedition to sail a balsa raft from Callao in Peru to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia, and explains how he turned this physical crossing into ...