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Children's rights in EU law
No full textThis paper addresses the question of how EU rights of children should be interpreted and applied in the light of international children’s rights principles, in particular dignity. In other words, what normative framework should inform the enforcement of children’s rights in Europe? The analysis of this problem, first, necessitates a brief exploration of the concept of dignity underlying established international children’s rights instruments, in particular the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Subsequently, the institutional framework for the protection of children’s dignity as a principle of EU law is explored on the basis of the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU. The codification of the concept of dignity in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights then is addressed, focussing on its meaning for the interpretation and application of the rights of the child protected under Article 24 of the Charter. Children’s rights in EU law are evaluated in light of the principle of dignity adhered to in international law; to what extent do they overlap and to what extent do they put forward a different, genuinely European idea or ideal? On the basis of this assessment, it is submitted that the further development of the normative framework for safeguarding children’s rights in the EU needs to address the possibility of taking a shared, European vision on the requirements of children’s dignity in the context of the internal market, which may guide the empowerment and protection of children under the Charter
Baas in eigen buik? De rechtsgeldigheid en nakoming van draagmoederschapsovereenkomsten in het licht van grondrechten
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The Evolving Concept of Private Law in Europe
Full text linkThis introduction aims to set out some of the basic concepts of European private law, while providing a common ground for the rest of the handbook Uncovering European Private Law. The introduction starts by defining some key terms, such as private law, private autonomy, or freedom of contract, and then proceeds to unpack important processes and developments that have marked the constitution of private law in Europe, including materialization and constitutionalization of private law, as well as the Europeanization and instrumentalization of private law through positive and negative integration. Building on the understanding of these terms and processes, we propose to understand European private law not only as a multi-level legal field but also a way of looking at private law that is necessarily transdisciplinary, comparative and contextual
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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