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Foreword, Francesca Bignami Dec 2004

Foreword, Francesca Bignami

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Three Generations Of Participation Rights Before The European Commission, Francesca Bignami Dec 2004

Three Generations Of Participation Rights Before The European Commission, Francesca Bignami

Law and Contemporary Problems

Bignami offers a conceptual framework for analyzing the development of participation rights before the European Commission from the early 1970s to the present day. Process rights before the Commission can be divided into three categories, each of which is associated with a distinct phase in European Community history and a particular set of institutional actors.


The Proceedings Of The European Ombudsman, Simone Cadeddu Dec 2004

The Proceedings Of The European Ombudsman, Simone Cadeddu

Law and Contemporary Problems

Given the severe institutional shortcomings of the European Ombudsman and the poor understanding of his duties among European citizens, the Ombudsman's information strategy does not appear to have been very effective so far. With dedication and activism, the Ombudsman continues to travel tirelessly year after year, participating in conferences, seminars, meetings, and visits with officials of Community and national institutions in all of the 25 Member States.


Judicial Review Of European Administrative Procedure, Jurgen Schwarze Dec 2004

Judicial Review Of European Administrative Procedure, Jurgen Schwarze

Law and Contemporary Problems

Schwarze examines the requirements set down in the case law of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance that serve to guarantee a fair and impartial administrative process. He also considers whether improvements should be made to the design of the administrative process and, if so, what kind.


European Administrative Proceedings, Sabino Cassese Dec 2004

European Administrative Proceedings, Sabino Cassese

Law and Contemporary Problems

Cassese discusses the third strategy of administrative integration, mixed or composite proceedings in which both Community and national authorities participate. Cassese analyzes how the common element takes root in the national part of the proceeding, what the national and supranational parts consist of, and the extent to which they remain distinct or appear instead as a single unit.


Glossary Dec 2004

Glossary

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Editor’S Note Dec 2004

Editor’S Note

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


The European Union’S Mixed Administrative Proceedings, Giacinto Della Cananea Dec 2004

The European Union’S Mixed Administrative Proceedings, Giacinto Della Cananea

Law and Contemporary Problems

Cananea attempts to shed some light on administrative powers through an examination of mixed administrative proceedings. Another aim is to try to identify the common features of mixed administrative proceedings and, at the same time, those which differentiate them from other types of proceedings.


A New Framework For Eu Administration: The Financial Regulation 2002, Paul Craig Dec 2004

A New Framework For Eu Administration: The Financial Regulation 2002, Paul Craig

Law and Contemporary Problems

Craig discusses the administration of the European Union budget, including direct and shared management, and the recently enacted new Financial Regulation. Craig points to the increasing constitutionalization of Community administration.


The “Standard” Administrative Procedure For Supervising And Enforcing Ec Law: Ec Treaty Articles 226 And 228, Alberto J. Gil Ibanez Dec 2004

The “Standard” Administrative Procedure For Supervising And Enforcing Ec Law: Ec Treaty Articles 226 And 228, Alberto J. Gil Ibanez

Law and Contemporary Problems

Ibanez examines the European Commission's policy and strategy in enforcement proceedings and attempts to discover the predominant European model, if such a model exists, for enforcing and supervising EC law. Ibanez focuses on some general difficulties in analyzing supervision and enforcement at the European level and the problem of implementation in more general terms.


European Principles Governing National Administrative Proceedings, Claudio Franchini Dec 2004

European Principles Governing National Administrative Proceedings, Claudio Franchini

Law and Contemporary Problems

It is critical that the process of developing general principles of Community administrative law continue, notwithstanding the marked diversity of supranational administrative proceedings. Because Community law has traditionally been focused on activities relevant to the common market, an asymmetry between the regulation of market-related administrative proceedings and other types of administrative proceedings has developed.


Administrative Proceedings Involving European Agencies, Edoardo Chiti Dec 2004

Administrative Proceedings Involving European Agencies, Edoardo Chiti

Law and Contemporary Problems

Chiti reconstructs the peculiar features of proceedings involving European agencies by analyzing the relevant positive law, administrative practice, and case law. This is to ascertain, in part, what is distinctive about these proceedings, as compared to the other procedural models that are progressively emerging in the Community legal order.


Forms Of European Administrative Action, Mario P. Chiti Dec 2004

Forms Of European Administrative Action, Mario P. Chiti

Law and Contemporary Problems

Chiti examines the various forms of European administration and their associated administrative law systems. Chiti recounts the history of administration and of administrative law in the European Community, examines the main types of administrative action in the Community, and highlights the novel elements and the shortcomings of European administrative law today.


The Future And Past Of U.S. Foreign Relations Law, Martin S. Flaherty Oct 2004

The Future And Past Of U.S. Foreign Relations Law, Martin S. Flaherty

Law and Contemporary Problems

The increasing role that the US plays in the world can only mean a correspondingly greater role for foreign affairs law in the US legal community. The Supreme Court has recently cited international and comparative law materials to a striking, and all but unprecedented, degree.


Disaggregating U.S. Interests In International Law, Peter J. Spiro Oct 2004

Disaggregating U.S. Interests In International Law, Peter J. Spiro

Law and Contemporary Problems

The Constitution is so central to American identity that any concession of external constitutional constraints may constitute a threat to national self-determination. This explains the relative intensity of objections to international norms and institutions thought to compromise constitutional discretion, at least in the absence of countervailing interests.


Taking The Punishment Out Of The Process: From Substantive Criminal Justice Through Procedural Justice To Restorative Justice, Brenda Sims Blackwell, Clark D. Cunningham Oct 2004

Taking The Punishment Out Of The Process: From Substantive Criminal Justice Through Procedural Justice To Restorative Justice, Brenda Sims Blackwell, Clark D. Cunningham

Law and Contemporary Problems

If the punishment is taken out of the process, and the processes of criminal justice become effective at restoration--and if rigorous empirical research might show that a restorative process costs less money and produces greater public safety--that would be a result everyone would embrace.


Should Noncommercial Associations Have An Absolute Right To Discriminate?, Andrew Koppelman Oct 2004

Should Noncommercial Associations Have An Absolute Right To Discriminate?, Andrew Koppelman

Law and Contemporary Problems

An association is more likely to win immunity from an antidiscrimination law, the more clearly its message is a discriminatory one. Boy Scouts of America v. Dale is in some tension with this rule, but the opinion is so muddled that it establishes no new rule to displace the old one.


Foreword, Christopher Ryan Hart Oct 2004

Foreword, Christopher Ryan Hart

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Corporate Law Or The Law Of Business?: Stakeholders And Corporate Governance At The End Of History, Adam Winkler Oct 2004

Corporate Law Or The Law Of Business?: Stakeholders And Corporate Governance At The End Of History, Adam Winkler

Law and Contemporary Problems

Surely, corporate managers themselves, who must operate within the broader law of business, are aware of the legally imposed duties to protect workders, consumers, and larger communities. Perhaps it is time corporate lawyers caught up to this reality.


Capitalism And Freedom — For Whom?: Feminist Legal Theory And Progressive Corporate Law, Kellye Y. Testy Oct 2004

Capitalism And Freedom — For Whom?: Feminist Legal Theory And Progressive Corporate Law, Kellye Y. Testy

Law and Contemporary Problems

Progressive corporate law has the potential to realign corporate activity and market economies with human benefit. The present state of disruption in the economy is a key moment: with disruption comes the opportunity for change.


Muss Es Sein? Not Necessarily, Says Tort Law, Anita Bernstein Oct 2004

Muss Es Sein? Not Necessarily, Says Tort Law, Anita Bernstein

Law and Contemporary Problems

The rule of law helps to check tendencies to excess, aligns remedies with what happened to similarly situated persons in the past, and give both power and accountability to public officials. Asserting its perpetual demand of Muss es sein? in reaction to oppressions, tort law jolts stais into change.


International Law, International Relations Theory, And Preemptive War: The Vitality Of Sovereign Equality Today, Thomas H. Lee Oct 2004

International Law, International Relations Theory, And Preemptive War: The Vitality Of Sovereign Equality Today, Thomas H. Lee

Law and Contemporary Problems

The norm of sovereign equality in international law is so resolutely canonical that its precise meaning, origins, and justifications are rarely examined. Whatever the general merits of the norm, its retention seems fairly open to question when one sovereign state appears supremely unequal among 191 states in terms of military power.


Journal Staff Oct 2004

Journal Staff

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Democracy And The Dominance Of Delaware In Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield Oct 2004

Democracy And The Dominance Of Delaware In Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield

Law and Contemporary Problems

Delaware has a population less than one-third of one percent of the nation, but it is the state of incorporation for more than fifty percent of US public companies and more than sixty percent of the Fortune 500. Delaware's resulting dominance over the terms of corporate governance in the US has been the subject of one of the grandest debates within corporate law scholarship.


Speech And Strife, Robert L. Tsai Jul 2004

Speech And Strife, Robert L. Tsai

Law and Contemporary Problems

Tsai examines the ways in which the US Supreme Court uses language to signal its authority. One technique of the Court is to frequently use the image of institutional conflict within its rulings.


Foreword, Christopher H. Schroeder Jul 2004

Foreword, Christopher H. Schroeder

Law and Contemporary Problems

In the summer of 2001, a group of lawyers, law professors, students, and judges formed the American Constitution Society. The organization’s avowed purpose is "to counter the dominant vision of American law today, a narrow conservative vision that lacks appropriate regard for the ways in which the law affects people’s lives: and to "restore the fundamental principles of respect for human dignity, protection of individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice to their rightful- and traditionally central-place in American law."1 By spring 2002, the American Constitution Society had formed more than fifty campus chapters, plus lawyer chapters …


Progressive And Conservative Constitutionalism As The United States Enters The 21st Century, Erwin Chemerinsky Jul 2004

Progressive And Conservative Constitutionalism As The United States Enters The 21st Century, Erwin Chemerinsky

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


The Majoritarian Rehnquist Court?, Neal Devins Jul 2004

The Majoritarian Rehnquist Court?, Neal Devins

Law and Contemporary Problems

Devins examines the reasons behind the tendency of the US Supreme Court under William Rehnquist to strike down federal laws. Majoritarian forces, including the use of the Court as a check against Congress, have led to the invalidation of many federal statutes.


Functional Departmentalism And Nonjudicial Interpretation: Who Determines Constitutional Meaning?, Dawn E. Johnsen Jul 2004

Functional Departmentalism And Nonjudicial Interpretation: Who Determines Constitutional Meaning?, Dawn E. Johnsen

Law and Contemporary Problems

Johnsen examines the roles of nonjudicial entities--especially the Congress and the president--in the development of constitutional meaning. Although the other two branches are fearful of challenging judiciary supremacy, functional departmentalism may offer a certain degree of autonomy from the Court.


The Antebellum Political Background Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Garrett Epps Jul 2004

The Antebellum Political Background Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Garrett Epps

Law and Contemporary Problems

Epps presents information concerning the historical context of the Fourteenth Amendment. Among other implications, the Amendment should be viewed as an effort to defend the national government from control by transient majorities or undemocratic factions in the states.