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The Millennium Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean: Progress, Priorities and IDB Support for their Implementation

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …

The Millennium Development Goals were formalized in the Millennium Declaration, which was endorsed by 189 Heads of State and Government at the United Nations Millennium Summit of 2000. Achieving these Goals through sustainable growth and advances in key areas such as education, health,...

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Which Governance for European Private Law?

Cafaggi, Fabrizio - European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law - 2007

legislative level, claiming that governance is a better response. He examines traditional modes of governance and then considers … the applicability of new modes of governance to EPL. He makes several reform proposals; most of them do not require … he emphasizes the role of judicial governance and the lack of coordination among national judiciaries proposing the …

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Democracy and European Integration: A Legacy of Tensions, a Re-conceptualisation and Recent True Conflicts?

Joerges, Christian - European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law - 2007

full democratic legitimacy. The second concern is with the modes of governance that Europe has established in order to … areas of social policy, resorting to soft law and non-legal governance techniques, which seem hardly reconcilable with …

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Consumer Citizenship in Postnational Constellations?

Everson, Michelle; Joerges, Christian - European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law - 2006

It is perhaps a truism to note that ‘the consumer’ is but a role that is played by human subjects. This insight leaves us, as lawyers, with one vital question: how can or does the legal system meaningfully rationalise its encounters with the consumer? Can it, and if so to what way, shape the...

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Multi-Level Judicial Trade Governance without Justice? On the Role of Domestic Courts in the WTO Legal and Dispute Settlement System

Petersmann, Ernst-Ulrich - European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law - 2006

The fragmented nature of national and international legal and dispute settlement regimes, and the formalistic nature of the customary international law rules on treaty interpretation and conflicts of laws, offer little guidance on how national and international judges should respond to the...

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Rationality within REACH? On Functional Differentiation as the Structural Foundation of Legitimacy in European Chemicals Regulation

Kjaer, Poul - European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law - 2007

regarded as a source of legitimacy in its own right. An adequate model of transnational governing and governance in the …

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Locating the Public Interest in Transnational Policing

Loader, Ian; Walker, Neil - European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law - 2007

This paper examines the basis on which we might argue that there is a 'transnational' public interest in transnational policing. Is policing beyond the state simply a matter of finding points of overlap between the security interests of different national communities. If so, it appears as a...

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Reconceiving Law and New Governance

Walker, Neil; Burca, Grainne de - European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law - 2007

This essay re-examines the concepts of Law and New Governance with a view to pursuing three cumulative objectives …. First, it emphasizes that both law and new governance are deeply contested concepts whose meaning and inter … it seeks to sketch a new framework of the relationship between Law and New Governance. This framework notes first, the …

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Justice in International Economic Law? From the ‘International Law among States’ to ‘International Integration law’ and ‘Constitutional Law’

Petersmann, Ernst-Ulrich - European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law - 2006

The UN Charter and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties require interpreting treaties and settling international disputes in conformity with the principles of justice and international law. This contribution discusses procedural and substantive principles of justice which the...

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A Matter of Development: How to Reduce Vulnerability in the Face of Natural Disasters

America, Economic Commission for Latin; Caribbean, the - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2000

This document was prepared by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for the "Confronting Natural Disasters: A Matter of Development" Seminar held in New Orleans on 25 and 26 March 2000. Vulnerability reduction is a key...

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