As behavioural sciences are unearthing the complex cognitive framework in which people make decisions, policymakers seem increasingly ready to design behaviourally-informed regulations to induce behaviour change in the interests of the individual and society. After discussing … [Read more...]

The advent of multipolar administrative law poses challenges to the theory of administrative law. These consist in the growing disconnect between administrative law and the nation-state and the continuously close interaction, and at times fusion, of domestic and international … [Read more...]

Given the current remarkable state of development of international investment law, it is surprising that to date neither the actual nature of the investor’s rights resulting from investment treaties nor the possible consequences which arise for the investor, the states and … [Read more...]

This Working Paper examines the indirect effect of international treaty law on domestic legal orders. The question whether domestic courts should attribute indirect effect to international treaty law is pursued from a normative perspective as well as from the perspectives of … [Read more...]

The article examines the substance and form of 20th century positivist international law; in particular the way in which each determines the other. The political and philosophical aspects of the foundations of international law were transformed in a process which developed in the … [Read more...]