This working paper is a draft chapter from a forthcoming book co-authored with Full Teaching Professor, Dr. Anne Boerger (Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta) and tentatively entitled: The Dual Nature of the European Community: The Making of the Institutional and Legal … [Read more...]

We take a close look at the most important legal techniques deployed by the European Union to make sure that the whole spectrum of denying non-citizens rights – from dignity to the right to life – is never presented as a violation of EU law even in the cases when dozens of … [Read more...]

The European Union (EU) has adopted a policy objective of fostering access to (non-personal) data. Law is one of the instruments towards this aim, particularly through the enactment of data access rights. The clash of intellectual property (IP) law with those rights is generally … [Read more...]

In this paper I claim that “authoritarian constitutionalism” is not an oxymoron as it may seem. A series of authoritarian practices have always characterized constitutionalism. Among them, I examine the case of calls for executive dominance in the context of a limited, although … [Read more...]

The present paper will attempt to map out the current analyses of the state of crisis affecting the EU. The goal is to show that the problem of the European people, namely, how is it possible that, notwithstanding the longevity and stability of the EU, a European people – as … [Read more...]