Bei dem Bemühen, die Berücksichtigung von Umwelt- und Ressourcenkosten (URK) gemäß Art. 9 WRRL praktisch umzusetzen, werden im Schrifttum immer wieder zwei "Vereinfachungen" angesprochen, um die als außerordentlich schwierig eingeschätzte URK-Ermittlung und -Anlastung praxistauglich zu...

This working paper offers a reconstruction and critical analysis of Joerges’ conflicts theory of European Union law. It is claimed that the theory of European conflicts is structured around three key premises: first, that there are functional and normative reasons to transcend the autarchic...

Martínez Sala and Bambaust have become the leading cases on free movement of persons in Community law. It has become standard to see both rulings as heralding a ‘civic’ turn of European integration, by expanding the personal scope of the freedom of personal movement from workers to...

There are good reasons to expect that the process of European integration might bring about a renaissance of comparative law and private international law, the two disciplines, in which Herbert Bernstein had excelled in the New and the Old World. To be sure, Europe’s legal systems must respond...

Martínez Sala and Bambaust have become the leading cases on free movement of persons in Community law. It has become standard to see both rulings as heralding a ‘civic’ turn of European integration, by expanding the personal scope of the freedom of personal movement from workers to...