Search
Search Results
-
Normative Power Europe as an Analytical Framework for Examining the EU’s Normativity
This chapter presents the analytical framework of the book. It centres around a legally contextualised understanding of the Normative Power Europe...
-
The EU Area of Fisheries and Normative Power Europe
This chapter builds on the theoretical foundations set out in Chap. 2 and lays down further and more...
-
Fishing Power Europe The EU’s Normativity in Its External Fisheries Action
This book examines how the EU and international law frameworks impact the EU’s ability to act normatively in its external action in the area of...
-
Europe in the Balkans: Weak Normative Power Meets Pallid Legitimacy
While perceptions of Europe, and of Europe’s institutional manifestation as the EU, are generally positive in the states of Southeast Europe, there...
-
Well-Tempered Power: ‘A Cultural Achievement of Universal Significance’
According to Laurent Pech, the rule of law was described as a “‘buzzword’ by [Hungary’s] justice minister; a fiction by a Fidesz MP; and a ‘magic...
-
Arbitrary Power: Caricature and Concept
Arbitrary power is often understood as bearing some kind of relation to tyrannical rule, a relation that is thought to explain why arbitrary power is...
-
Legal and Normative Challenges Behind Sustainable Seafood
In the last decades, governments and international governmental organisations have been harshly criticised for their perceived failure to mitigate...
-
Trade Secrets Legal Apprehension: An Uncertain Normative Framework
This chapter is devoted to the legal apprehension of trade secrets. Despite the differences between the unfair competition and intellectual property...
-
Medical Research and Data Protection in Europe. The Emergence of General Legal Principles
Biobanks are essential instruments of medical research. It is important for biobanks that freedom of research and the protection of health, which can...
-
Down with the politics, up with the law! Reinforcing EU law’s supervision of sport autonomy in Europe
The rulings of the CJEU in Superleague , Royal Antwerp and ISU endorse some of the characteristics of the European Model of Sport without explicitly...
-
European Constitutional Identity as a Normative Concept: Pointing to the Core of European Democracies
Whereas national identity has enjoyed considerable success in the debates on the Union and identitarian arguments are often deployed to limit the...
-
Reinforcing Institutional Power: The Discourse of Normalcy in European Union Governance
This paper examines the notion of normalcy within the discourse of the European Union (EU), with a focus on its response to transformative dynamics...
-
Introduction. Democracy and Judicial Governance in Europe
This chapter introduces the topic of judicial governance, connecting it to democratic quality. It defines and explains the main models of judicial...
-
Anchoring the Right to a Healthy Environment in the European Convention on Human Rights: What Concretized Normative Consequences Can Be Anticipated for the Strasbourg Court?
This chapter explores, in a concretized and systematized manner, how the projected additional protocol to the ECHR on the right to a healthy...
-
The Blind-Spot in Protecting Global Minorities: A Blue-Print for Strengthening the Normative Framework?
Fears over the tyranny of majorities towards smaller ethnic, linguistic and religious communities led progressive thinkers and scholars in the mode...
-
Normative Recommendation
The liability rules currently present in patent and competition law are too narrow and ineffective to address the patent system’s imbalances that...
-
Ethics, Force, and Power: On the Political Preconditions of Just War
Benbaji and Statman’s contractarian ethics of war offers a powerful new philosophical defence of orthodox conclusions against revisionist criticism....
-
Environmental Law in the Courts of Europe: A Rough Sketch
This chapter examens how domestic judiciaries in Europe deal with environmental law. This produces a very varied picture. The way in which domestic...
-
“Green(er) Civilian Power Europe” in the Era of the EU Green Deal: Giving Effect to the Environmental Sustainability Aspects of EU Trade Policy
Trade liberalisation, internally and externally, has been the essence of European integration since the Treaty of Rome. Unpacking EU’s role as an...
-
The EU in the Mirror of NPE: Normative Power Europe in the EU’s New Generation Trade and Investment Agreements
Ian Manners’ concept of ‘normative power Europe’ (NPE) has become one of the most popular approaches to studying EU external policy. Those who...