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The EC Treaty and the use of nationality and habitual residence as connnecting factors in international family law
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Het Europees burgerinitiatief als een element van participatieve democratie : een systemische analyse
No full textAbstract: De Europese Unie heeft zich, als dynamische democratie, verschillende kerenheruitgevonden. De aandacht ging naar de verhouding tussen de burgers en deEuropese instellingen, specifiek naar de manier waarop deze kon wordenverbeterd. Sinds de jaren zeventig werd nagedachtover aanpassingen van het Europese democratische bestel. Dit leidde tot deversterking van de positie van het Europees Parlement, hervormingen in debesluitvormingsprocedures, de introductie van het Europees burgerschap, hetontwikkelen van het petitierecht, de ombudsprocedure en de wetgevendeconsultaties en eindigde in 2012 in het summum van participatieve democratie,het Europees burgerinitiatief. De centrale onderzoeksvraag leest als volgt: \u201cIn hoeverre vormt het Europees burgerinitiatief een meerwaarde voor dedemocratie en de democratische legitimiteit van de Europese Unie?\u201d Hetproefschrift voert een uitgebreide analyse van het Europees burgerinitiatiefuit en bekijkt onder meer de procedure, de doelstellingen en de praktischetoepassing. Bovendien wordt het burgerinitiatief ook binnen een ruimerperspectief geplaatst. De eerder ingevoerde instrumenten, zoals hetpetitierecht, de Europese ombudsprocedure en de wetgevingsconsultaties wordenfunctioneel bestudeerd. Deze maken immers deel uit van de participatievedemocratie. De analyse maakt daarnaast gebruik van inzichten uit de politiekeen bestuurswetenschappen ter aanvulling van de juridische analyse. Dit onderzoekgeeft een systemische analyse van het Europees burgerinitiatief, zowel vanuittheoretisch als praktisch perspectief. Bovendien kijken we naar de nationaleinstrumenten en hebben we aandacht voor de manier waarop de lidstaten en deUnie elkaar be\uefnvloeden. De samenhang tussen de verschillende niveaus, deinstellingen en de instrumenten van participatieve democratie wordt door middelvan dit proefschrift voor het eerst duidelijk in kaart gebracht. De systemischeanalyse wordt toegepast binnen de Europese participatieve democratie. Ze leidttot nieuwe inzichten en opent pistes voor toekomstig onderzoek
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
The development of private international law in the European Union : a study on the contribution of art. 81 TFEU and the CJEU's case law on the free movement of companies and Union citizens to a specific identity for EU conflict of laws
No full textAbstract: Traditionally, private international law and conflict of laws as one of its elements were part and parcel of domestic law. Due their domestic pedigree, conflict-of-laws rules varied from one state to another as every state espoused its own approach to the determination of the law applicable to cross-border relations, with only a marginal number of conflict-of-laws rules being unified by international conventions. Things changed as the European integration strengthened and also left its traces in areas traditionally governed by domestic conflict of laws. The Europeanisation of conflict of laws, which initially was slow, has accelerated in the last two decades. Currently, the European Union (EU) has adopted extensive secondary legislation that replaces entire layers of domestic conflict-of-laws rules, making conflict of laws to a great extent a branch of EU law. However, it is not only the EU legislature that has rendered many domestic conflict-of-laws rules obsolete. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) as well has intervened and rendered many judgments that interpreted the European fundamental freedoms in a way that they strongly interact with some of the remaining domestic conflict-of-laws rules, hence substantially modifying their functioning within the EU. The unparalleled development of European conflict of laws poses an obvious question: is it fundamentally different from domestic conflict of laws and, if so, then what is its specific identity? The objective of the Ph.D. thesis is to study the specific identity of EU conflict of laws in two particular areas. Firstly, the thesis aims to answer whether and in what sense Article 81 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which serves as the basis for EU secondary legislation regarding judicial cooperation in civil matters, determines the specific identity of EU conflict-of-laws rules adopted by means of secondary legislation. Secondly, the thesis aims to answer whether the EU conflict-of-laws regime that the CJEU has created regarding the free movement of companies and of Union citizens carries any specific identity that would distinguish it from traditional conflict-of-laws rules
Freedom of establishment, conflict of laws and the transfer of a company's registered office : towards full cross-border corporate mobility in the internal market?
No full textAbstract: Cross-border corporate mobility in the internal market has developed in particular through the interpretation by the Court of Justice of the European Union of the Treaty provisions on freedom of establishment. Certain issues at the crossroads of conflict of laws and European Union (EU) law are still the subject of debate. One of these is whether freedom of establishment includes a right to solely transfer a companys registered office between Member States. As such transformation results in a change of the companys lex societatis, it is intrinsically linked to the debate on regulatory competition in the EU internal market, freedom of choice and the proper balancing of the public and private interests involved. The author defends a nuanced position, referring to the true meaning of establishment in the internal market, the policy of safe regulatory competition and the equivalence of the Member States conflict of laws rules
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Politi\ueble en justiti\ueble strafrechtelijke samenwerking in de Europese Unie: welk evenwicht tussen vrijheid, veiligheid en rechtvaardigheid?
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