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...

The paper intends to give a short overview of how the Swedish system of land and environment courts is organised and of the procedure in their administrative cases, with specific attention paid to cases on appealed decisions from authorities. In these cases, the land and environment courts act...

The paper examines the possible implications of the ruling of the Belgian Constitutional Court on the Italian legal system. Even if the Italian judicial system does not have any provision similar to the Belgian administrative loop, the Belgian rulings can impact the ongoing Italian debate on...

In this paper it is examined if unification or even harmonisation of the law on security rights, both on movables, immovables and claims, is at all possible without (1) thorough analysis of the property law traditions in Europe, (2) study of the existing, albeit limited, acquis communautaire in...

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...

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...

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...