Cultural property offers a significant yet ambiguous example of the development of global regulatory regimes beyond the State. On the one hand, traditional international law instruments do not seem to ensure an adequate level of protection for cultural heritage; securing such … [Read more...]
A Strasbourg Perspective on the Autonomous Development of Fundamental Rights in EU Law: Trends and Implications
This paper analyzes how the European Court of Human Rights has reacted to the progressive developments by the European Union of its own human rights standards through the Charter of Fundamental Rights and an increasing number of secondary law instruments. These evolutions have … [Read more...]
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Reducing Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Paradoxes of Environmentalism
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is likely to continue for a long time, despite the efforts of the Brazilian government and of Brazilian and foreign non-governmental organizations to halt it. This paper argues that among the reasons for this unhappy state of affairs is the … [Read more...]
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Citizenship without Respect: The EU’s Troubled Equality Ideal
The European Union suffers from an empty formalistic reading of the principle of equality when dealing with situations where different legal orders legitimately compete, aspiring to regulate the condition of the same persons in the same circumstances. Consequently, equality … [Read more...]
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Drawing the Line: The EU’s Political Accession Criteria and the Construction of Membership
In this paper I seek to explicate the ideas about EU membership embedded in the accession criteria, and in the pre-accession monitoring of Poland, Romania and Turkey. Taking four ideal-type modes of membership as my heuristic gear, I will show that the way the criteria were … [Read more...]
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