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Title:The ‘War on Terror’ and the United Kingdom’s Constitution Author(s):ELLIOTT, MarkDate:2007Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2007, 1, 1Type:ArticleAbstract:That its “unwritten” nature makes the United Kingdom’s constitution extremely flexible is a truism if not a cliché. It is, nevertheless, a phenomenon that has never been more clearly evident than in the last ten years. No ...
Title:Wedding a Critical Legal Pluralism to the Laws of Close Personal Adult Relationships Author(s):MACDONALD, Roderick; MCMORROW, ThomasDate:2007Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2007, 1, 1Type:ArticleAbstract:Among private lawyers trained in Western European or Western European-derived legal traditions there is broad consensus about the central features of law. This consensus crystallizes around the features that distinguish ...
Title:What 'if'? : the emerging epistemic community of international criminal law Author(s):HOLTERMANN, Jakob v. H.; KJÆR, Anne LiseDate:2019Citation:European journal of legal studies, 2019, SI, pp. 49-90Type:ArticleAbstract:Using international criminal law as a case study, this article aims to demonstrate how computer-assisted corpus linguistics combined with philosophy of law and sociology of science can help improve our understanding of ...
Title:What does it take to be a loyal member : revisiting the ‘good membership’ obligations in the law of international organizations Author(s):ZHUNUSSOVA, Tleuzhan Date:2022Citation:European journal of legal studies, 2022, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 65-101Type:ArticleAbstract:The goal of this article is to examine the nature and the scope of the 'good membership' obligations that every state acquires as a consequence of its membership in international organizations. While the concept of membership ...
Title:Which courts matter most? : measuring importance in the EU preliminary reference system Author(s):OVÁDEK, Michal; WIJTVLIET, Wessel; GLAVINA, MonikaDate:2020Citation:European journal of legal studies, 2020, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 121-155Type:ArticleAbstract:In this article we contribute to a recent strand of literature that revisits the role of hierarchically different national courts in the process of European integration. While the received view emphasizes the dominance of ...
Title:Whiteness in the Ivory tower Author(s):JACOB-OWENS, Timothy Craig Date:2021Citation:European journal of legal studies, 2021, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-13Type:ArticleAbstract:It is fitting that perhaps the most common metaphor used to refer to academic institutions evokes an image of whiteness. The European University Institute (EUI) – our host institution, whose new logo features an actual ...
Title:Who has the final say? : the relationship between international, EU and national law Author(s):KIRCHMAIR, LandoDate:2018Citation:European journal of legal studies, 2018, Vol. 10, pp. 47-100Type:ArticleAbstract:A key focus of much scholarly attention is on the (theoretical) relationship between legal orders. The practical question I intend to answer in this article is the following: how can we know who has the final say – ...
Title:Winning the Global Development Challenge - Book Review; John W. HEAD, Losing the Global Development War: A Contemporary Critique of the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO, Leiden, Nijhoff, 2008 Author(s):VADI, Valentina Date:2009Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2009, 2, 2, 102-115Type:Article
Title:Women, and all of us : Article 5(a) CEDAW as a protection for all gendered individuals Author(s):GILLERI, Giovanna Date:2024Citation:European journal of legal studies, 2024, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 137-170Type:ArticleAbstract:This article explains the disruptive potential of Article 5(a) of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) building on psychoanalytical, feminist and queer theories. Reading ...
Title:World Heritage and the Heritage of the World – Book Review; F. FRANCIONI and F. LENZERINI, The 1972 World Heritage Convention: A Commentary, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008 Author(s):LIXINSKI, LucasDate:2008Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2008, 2, 1, 371-386Type:Article
Title:The Yearning for Unity and the Eternal Return of the Tower of Babel Author(s):CARTY, AnthonyDate:2007Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2007, 1, 1Type:ArticleAbstract:International lawyers frequently aspire to affirm the existence of international community and the presence of authority to speak on its behalf. However by forcing a hierarchical representation of legal values upon nations, ...
Title:You cannot eat critique : on uncritical critical (legal) theory and the poverty of bullshit Author(s):EVANS, MatthewDate:2021Citation:European journal of legal studies, 2021, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 187-222Type:ArticleAbstract:This article reflects upon critical theory, focusing especially on critical legal theory, particularly in relation to human rights. Positing that much critical theory is in fact uncritical, the article argues that critical ...