This contribution deals with the legal consequences of unlawful inactivity of the administration. The theme of administrative silence has been subject of studies in national administrative law scholarship for a long time. The approach started with a focus on legal protection, but by now more and...

Against a backdrop of rapidly evolving crisis management in the European financial and sovereign debt crisis this essay aims both to explore and to re-consider the role of law in the EU integration process: What did law accomplish? Where did it fail? What is law going to endure? What kind of...

While corporations wield tremendous amounts of power that can – in theory – ameliorate some of the global challenges that the world faces today, as things stand, the right incentives are not in place for the stakeholders to transform companies into socially responsible and environmentally...

In recent years, economic globalisation has had a profound impact on national cultures. Trade liberalisation and technological innovations, the driving forces behind the process of economic globalisation, have brought down many barriers that in the past obstructed the free cross-border...

In modern society, products are often subject to requirements relating to their characteristics and/or the manner in which they are produced. The purpose of these requirements may be the protection of life or health, the protection of the environment, the prevention of deceptive practices or to...

This paper applies an economic analysis of law to the question under what conditions insurance should be made compulsory. A distinction is made between first party (victim) insurance and third party (liability) insurance. It is argued that under some circumstances compulsory victim insurance may...

This contribution discusses the formal inclusion of sport in the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. It shall assess whether Articles I-17 and III-282 can be legitimately expected to provide the necessary impetus to create a coherent and deliberate European sports policy. In order to...

This article examines the involvement of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with a number of selected international organisations and the rules on NGO accreditation currently applied by these international organisations. It is submitted that appropriate legal arrangements for accreditation of...

In 2005, the World Trade Organization ('WTO') celebrates its tenth anniversary. While the WTO is thus still a young organisation, the issue of its reform is already the subject of much debate. In recent years the functioning of the WTO has been severely criticized by opponents as well as by...

Dispute settlement mechanisms have considerably advanced the European integration process. This paper aims to scrutinise the main legislative provisions and structure of the dispute settlement mechanisms in the European Union. It discusses the two different types of dispute settlement (judicial...