Ce document a été préparé par le programme Sigma à la demande du cabinet du premier ministre de la République tchèque. L'OCDE a beaucoup travaillé au cours des dernières années sur les questions relatives à la dimension organisationnelle de l'administration nationale et, en...

The report addresses the question whether and how economic globalisation affects the development of national rules governing public intervention into the market place, or whether the erosion of the interventionist power of States is due to changes of political and economic thought, by presenting...

LEGAL INSTRUMENTS FOR THE PROTECTION OF DIFFUSE INTERESTS AND COLLECTIVE GOODS : THE ROLE OF PRIVATE ACTORS AND THE RETURN OF PUBLIC POWER This paper starts with the presentation of a few venues for a research programme. Contemporary and comparative legal history could try and find out more...

International comparisons of Civil Services usually overlook the difficulties due to differing definitions of the civil service in national legal systems. Comparative statistics are therefore extremely misleading, as they are at best based on formal-legal criteria instead of being based on...

The use of one and the same word, i.e. Justice in the English or French language to render the two concepts of Gerechtigkeit when the issue is about equitability or fairness in social relations, and of Justiz when the issue is about the administration of justice often leads lawyers to overlook...

The paper addresses the issue of implementation research in the XXIst Century. Research on the implementation of EU law and policies remains mainly centred upon the rather simplistic issue of the transposition of directives and framework decisions, taking as a point of departure the different...

The paper is a first critical analysis of the Prüm Convention on deepening transfrontier cooperation, amongst others in view of combating terrorism, transfrontier crime, and illegal migration, which was signed by Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Spain on 27 May...

The article - to be published in Guibentif and Gonçalves (eds), Os novos territórios do direito: Globalização, europeização e transformação da regulação juridical, Coimbra : Almedina, 2006 or 2007 – explores a few elements of what may be labelled as the Europeanisation of Law –...

The paper examines the process of ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in the member states of the European Union, from the date of its signature in Rome on 29 October 2004 to the European Council of June 2006 which decided to prolong the period of reflection for two...