Rule of Law and strong legal systems are considered a pre-condition for sustained development. Their relative weakness in the under-developed world is considered as the main obstacle to growth. Strengthening Rule of Law and legal systems has, therefore, become a standard advice from the...

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The right of association is a fundamental element of the democratic society, in which the concentration and interaction between different social groups is necessary to enable the articulation and shaping of the different views of citizens. It is observed that freedom of association aims at...

The hypothesis of the present paper envisages that EU institutions have a legal-political original nature, because they can not be assigned definitively and exclusively in one of the existing legal and political patterns, standing on the premise of our theory that the European Union itself has a...

The hypothesis of the present paper envisages that EU institutions have a legal-political original nature, because they can not be assigned definitively and exclusively in one of the existing legal and political patterns, standing on the premise of our theory that the European Union itself has a...

The European Union, including as it appears in the form established by the Lisbon Treaty,supposes a unique combination of institutional elements, some of them of specific to the state type institutions, others taken from the institutional structure of international intergovernmental...

During the 26/11 Mumbai attack Ajmal Kasab was intercepted alive by the Mumbai police and the capture of a foreign terrorist led to an intricate legal battle as Mumbai police filed an 11,280 page chargesheet. The FBI filed four Chargesheets in the same case in a US court. The investigative...

In this paper, we first explore how an exogenous increase in the opportunity cost of religious participation affects individuals' religious participation and reported happiness using data from the General Social Survey. The exogenous shift in the cost of religious participation is a result of...

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments’ respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...