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:Urban Growth Across Three Continents: The Blessing of Human Capital and the Curse of Volatility
Author(s):POELHEKKE, StevenDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation is concerned with the empirical determinants of urban growth in developed countries, and the effects of macroeconomic volatility in less developed countries, on urbanization and long run income growth. ...
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:Using Historical Experience: The British Army and the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan
Author(s):SANGAR, EricDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This PhD explores some of the ways in which the British and German Armies have used historical experience in their process of operational adaptation in Afghanistan. Historical experience is conceptualized as a body of ...