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    ADR in the Administrative Law: A Perspective from the United Kingdom

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    Administrative ADR encompasses a number of grievance mechanisms that provide an alternative to court litigation. However, due to space constraints, the chapter focuses on three types of ADR, namely, “internal appeal,” “mediation,” and the “public Ombudsman.” A central claim of this work is that there exists a fine balance between PDR and the constitutional values that are intrinsic to a system of administrative justice. There is sufficient evidence, for instance, to suggest that public Ombudsmen, despite their shortcomings and need for reform, have the greatest potential to strike this fine balance between PDR and fundamental constitutional values. That said, there are many more issues that should be looked at here, some of which are fundamental, such as the place of ADR in common law and the issue of ADR specifically in public law, while one may still want to be cautious about the divide between public law and private law in the context of the common law. Finally, there is also an issue of balance to be sought between the use of ADR and the quality of administrative justice

    Fundamentals of contract modifications in EU procurement law

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    For the past decades the Court of Justice of the European Union has been drafting the legal framework for contract modifications in relation to public procurement. The current rules in the Directive 2014/24/EU represent well years of the Court’s case law. Nonetheless, certain unregulated gaps remain. This chapter aims to shed some light on the fundamental characteristics of contract changes by concentrating on four different aspects. First, this chapter looks into what kind of changes are acceptable under the current regime and what the term ‘overall nature of the contract’ means. Second, the differences between amendments made within different stages of procurement procedure are discussed. Third, it looks into the scope of remedies imposed due to illegal contract modifications and fourth, before concluding, the transparency of contract amendments and the differences between jurisdictions are discussed.For the past decades the Court of Justice of the European Union has been drafting the legal framework for contract modifications in relation to public procurement. The current rules in the Directive 2014/24/EU represent well years of the Court’s case law. Nonetheless, certain unregulated gaps remain. This chapter aims to shed some light on the fundamental characteristics of contract changes by concentrating on four different aspects. First, this chapter looks into what kind of changes are acceptable under the current regime and what the term ‘overall nature of the contract’ means. Second, the differences between amendments made within different stages of procurement procedure are discussed. Third, it looks into the scope of remedies imposed due to illegal contract modifications and fourth, before concluding, the transparency of contract amendments and the differences between jurisdictions are discussed

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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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