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The need to balance austerity with growth policies has put government efficiency high on the economic policy agenda in … Europe. Administrative reforms which boost the efficiency of the administration can alleviate the trade-off between … consolidation and public service provision. Against such backdrop, this study explores the determinants of efficiency enhancing …
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The view that European institutions do not operate with maximum efficiency, that they are not yet able to cope with all … emerged in recent years. In this paper we try to clarify the concept of institutional efficiency, and try to follow from a …
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This article reflects on the suitability of including non-legal arbitrators in certain investment arbitrations. It presents different mechanisms that have been used in the investment arbitration context to aid legal arbitrators with scientific-technical issues and contemplates the drawbacks of...
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The progression toward reevaluating patent validity in the administrative, rather than judicial, setting became overtly substitutionary in the America Invents Act. No longer content to encourage court litigants to rely on Patent Office expertise for faster, cheaper, and more accurate validity...
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Whistleblowing has an important role to play in the functioning and evolution of democratic society.This paper identifies objectives for whistleblowing law, which have the overarching objective of serving the public interest. It then sets out potential statutory reforms to UK whistleblowing law...
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The implementation of European Union directives into national law is at the discretion of member states. We analyze …
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The implementation of European Union directives into national law is at the discretion of member states. We analyze …
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The implementation of European Union directives into national law is at the discretion of member states. We analyze …
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The implementation of European Union directives into national law is at the discretion of member states. We analyze …
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The European Commission appears determined to take action in order to harmonize contract law in the European Union. Most recently, it has issued a Green Paper on 1 July 2010. In order to aid the process of harmonization, a large-scale academic study had been commissioned, the 'Draft Common Frame...
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