This study addresses the role of European institutions in their efforts to combat the effects of global financial crisis. Emphasis is placed on the European Union's contribution in the initiation of measures to limit the global financial crisis. This study seeks to explain the causes of the...

Following the recurrence of serious events of food contamination across the globe, food safety has become a matter of ever increasing international concern and the World Health Organization has defined foodborne diseases as a global public health challenge. Protecting global health from...

The European system of human rights protection is generally considered as a model of the effectiveness at the level of the international human right law. This general opinion expressed in the doctrine is mainly due to the current mechanism of protection of the rights guaranteed by the European...

This paper tests the explanatory power of traditional enforcement instruments, environmental attitudes and abundance of social capital for violation of environmental regulations in Sweden. A count data model is used on a panel data set obtained from a survey to inspectors at the local and...

Determining the law applicable to contracts, particularly to international contracts, conventions and treaties, has always caused problems to both legal theoreticians and legal practitioners. The prevailing reason for the issue lies in the fact that a certain type of contract used to be...

In this article, I discuss an economic theory of human rights. Interpreting the social contract as a market good, a vector of rights that cannot be unbundled, I construct a competitive model in which citizens demand and states supply social contracts. An international market for social contracts...

This contribution discusses pros and cons of economic analysis of law, so called Law and Economics, in International Trade Law. The paper focuses on capacity and feasibility of conducting such analysis, briefly touches some key topics from perspective of Law and Economics (such as background...

In the current conditions in which the activity of the physical and juridical persons develops not only in the internal frame of a state, inside its frontiers, but also in the international life’s frame, we can notice the birth of some juridical reports where the parties are represented by...

Today a new generation of food safety policy is emerging in OECD countries and international public health forums. The United States has actively contributed to the thinking and scientific research underlying this new generation of policy. A consensus has emerged among nations about the basic...