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(Re-)inventing the Dublin System: Addressing Uniformity and Harmonization through Non-Refoulement Obligations
Recent events unfolding in the European Union have taught us that responsibility-sharing under the current Dublin Convention and Regulations (the “Dublin System”), has long failed its lofty goals. To adequately address the ongoing needs of massive influx of asylum claimants into EU member states, ...
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Author : Poon, Jenny
Date : 20 July 2016
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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A Legal Perspective on Nuclear Back-End Management in the Circular Economy
To what extent can circular economy principles enhance the sustainability of nuclear energy? To what extent does the Dutch regulatory framework for nuclear back-end management allow for the transition to a circular economy?
Author : Mahlert, Colleen
Date : 08 December 2022
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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A ‘right to have rights’ in the EU public sphere? An Arendtian justification for the application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
This paper discusses the Court’s reasoning in interpreting the EU Charter, using recent case law on horizontal effect as a case study. It identifies two possible means of interpreting the provisions of the Charter: firstly, an approach based on common values (e.g. equality or solidarity) and, second...
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Author : Frantziou, Eleni
Date : 2016
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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Asymmetrical Sovereignty, European Integration, and the Grey Zone of European Union Politics
This study highlights both the significance and impact of the developing changes in the last decades around Europe, the notion-related adjustments that remain to be carried and in parallel to provide a more general explanation concerning the institution of sovereignty in relation to the process of E...
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Author : Maris , Georgios and Sklias, Pantelis
Date : 2016
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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Energy governance in EU-Russia energy relations: paving the way towards an energy union
EU-Russia relations are in desperate need of legislative and institutional reform given the fragmented legal infrastructure regulating energy trade between these two powers. The paper will argue that the energy partnership is a highly strategic relationship that has profound implications for the int...
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Author : Georgiou, Natasha A. and Rocco, Andrea
Date : 13 January 2017
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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Enforcing compliance of the Rule of Law by the Member States of the EU: Emphasising the EU’s Failure?
The EU is founded on the rule of law enshrined in Article 2 TEU. Nevertheless, recent developments within certain Member States demonstrate that not all Member States are able to keep up with the high standards of the rule of law during their membership. The EU has several tools at its disposal to a...
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Author : Gremmelprez, Femke
Date : 2016
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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Enhanced cooperation - a suitable means to further integration?
Author : Böttner, Robert
Date : 03 August 2018
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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European Union Law and Public Procurement
This paper discusses the law of the European Union (EU) on public procurement by providing an overview of both the primary law principles and foundations emanating from the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and the detailed rules of a set of secondary procurement Directives. The...
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Author : Trybus, Martin (Professor)
Date : 30 October 2017
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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FTA dispute settlement mechanisms – alternative fora for trade disputes: the case of CETA and EUJEPA
This paper investigates whether in the context of the Appellate Body crisis and the more developed FTA norms, the dispute settlement mechanisms contained in EU FTAs, particularly CETA and EUJEPA, could emerge as attractive alternative fora for solving trade disputes. The paper will analyze potential...
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Author : Furculita, Cornelia
Date : 12 June 2020
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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Fundamental rights in the institutional architecture of EU trade agreements: a tale of omissions
This paper explores the institutional dimension of the implementation of the new generation EU Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) from a fundamental rights perspective. The creation of an institutional architecture of EU FTAs is what makes them operational. It enables the other dimensions to become “alive...
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Author : Mancini, Isabella
Date : 08 July 2020
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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General principles of EU law as a passe-partout key within the constitutional edifice of the European Union: are the benefits worth the side effects?
Author : Gualco, Elena
Date : 2016
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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Is There a Tomorrow for the Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the Committee of the Regions (CoR)?
The main purpose of the two Committees is to engage participation from citizens in order to ensure that EU laws are geared to economic, social and regional conditions. In their core, the Committees are advisory bodies whose purpose is to give interest groups a formal say on EU legislative proposals....
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Author : Petrašević, Tunjica and Duić, Dunja
Date : 2016
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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Labour Standards and Mega-Regionals: Innovative Rule-Making or Sticking to the Boilerplate?
The requirement to adopt minimum labour standards is now standard practice in free trade agreements negotiated by major trading powers such as the EU and US. However, such practice has historically been contested by developing countries, who contend that the requirement to increase labour and social...
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Author : Melo Araujo, B. A. (Dr)
Date : 19 May 2017
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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Of the State of the (European) Union and of Trade Deals
Author : Sharpston, Eleanor
Date : 16 February 2017
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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Pork, Peace and Principles: the Relations between the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union
Over the last decade the EU faced numerous calls to engage with the Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan set up in 2010 and its successor, the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), found in 2015. While proponents differ in terms of their justification and desired scope of cooperation, they...
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Author : Dragneva-Lewers, Rilka
Date : 07 June 2019
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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Putting a price on human rights? A policy-based approach for the protection of human rights in Europe
Ongoing political uncertainty in Europe, as a result of, inter alia, Brexit, the rise of populism and nationalism, places the fundamental principles of democracy, rule of law and human rights under threat across the entire continent. The European Commission, in seeing certain EU Member States adopti...
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Author : Xenofontos , Stefanos
Date : 03 August 2018
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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Regulatory cooperation in EU FTAs: characteristics of the reestablished practice
Regulatory cooperation is a complex and multifarious concept. Its multimodality applies not only to the forms it can take but also to the fora where it may appear. Although regulatory cooperation does not constitute a new trend in EU trade, its current state represents an original development. Regul...
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Author : Kalogirou, Kornilia Pipidi
Date : 25 June 2020
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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Renewables, Investments, and State Aids: Exploring the Legal Side of Polycentricity
The requirement to adopt minimum labour standards is now standard practice in free trade agreements negotiated by major trading powers such as the EU and US. However, such practice has historically been contested by developing countries, who contend that the requirement to increase labour and social...
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Author : Bellantuono, Giuseppe (Professor)
Date : 22 October 2017
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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The Banking Union: Agencies and the Lesson from the US
Author : Lonardo, Luigi
Date : 2016
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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The Eurasian Economic Union: Balancing Sovereignty and Integration
Author : Dragneva, Rilka
Date : 09 November 2016
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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The Legal Foundations of a European Army
A European Army featured at the very beginning of the European integration process. In the early 1950s the ‘Plan Pléven’ proposed to establish a European Defence Community comprising inter alia of an integrated European Defence Force. However, the plan failed and the notion of a European army disapp...
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Author : Trybus, Martin
Date : 2016
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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The Roads to Reversing Brexit: Local and Transnational Constitutional Principles
Author : Howse, Robert
Date : 03 August 2018
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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The WTO Dispute Settlement System as a Forum for Climate Litigation?
This article examines whether and to what extent the Dispute Settlement System (DSS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) could and should serve as a venue for international climate litigation. The article tackles these questions in three parts. First, it maps the nature and features of a trade-rel...
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Author : Asmelash, Henok
Date : 14 November 2022
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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The Working Language of the CJEU: Time for a Change?
It is well known that the working language of the CJEU is French. For many years, the status of French was unquestioned, but this is now changing. This article considers how French came to be chosen as the CJEU’s working language; the effect of that choice on the CJEU’s judicial method; and the feas...
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Author : Arnull, Anthony
Date : 09 January 2019
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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The ‘humanity’ of the secular legal subject’: Reading the European Court of Human Rights’ decisions over the practice of veiling
The debate over the Muslim headscarf has become an arena of fervent discussion in Europe. Much of the debate reveals an attempt to explain the issue in binary terms, between modern, ‘secular’, universal and ‘religious’, traditional, local values. In this context, the hijab has become the symbol and ...
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Author : Baldi, Giorgia
Date : 2016
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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“Appellate Body Held Hostage”: Is Judicial Activism at Fair Trial?
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement System (DSS) is in peril. The Appellate Body (AB) is being held as a ‘hostage’ by the very architect and the most frequent user of WTO DSS, the United States of America. This will bring the whole DSS to a standstill as the inability of AB to revi...
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Author : Bahri, Amrita
Date : 07 June 2019
Source : Working Paper. University of Birmingham.
Collection : IEL Working Papers
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