Under the influence of WTO law, a private infrastructure for the implementation of international standards has emerged. The paper identifies its development out of independent conformity assessment bodies, called certifiers. The basis for the conduct of certification are International Standardization Organization (ISO) standards. The EU has intervened in different ways to integrate these global implementation...
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Politics and Political Footballs: Malaysian Monarchy in an Age of Consumerism
Over the last 15 years the Malaysian monarchies (constituting about a fifth of all extant monarchies globally) have re-established themselves not only reputationally but also as important elements in the Malaysian political system. This paper looks at what has been dubbed ‘Nazrinian’ monarchy and its Johor variant, ‘The Order’, and their impact on acute political...
Regulation and Technology: Reducing the Digital Divide as a Legal Tool to Protect National Interests and Support Economic Growth
In the last years, several European and non-European governments implemented policies aimed at reducing the digital divide between their inner geographic areas. Digital divide is indeed a relevant source of social and economic inequalities between individuals and companies. Even if different in their own features, all these public programs aspire to facilitate economic growth, level...
Regulatory approaches to Free expression in Europe
The analysis aims to provide the initial answers to the question how the Internet has influenced the exercise and the judicial protection of this freedom. The rapid evolution of Internet stands behind the current ‘regulatory nervousness‘ around the free expression. The shift from national anxieties to the continental regulatory zeal is caused by the lack...
Regulatory approaches to the Right to Privacy and the Protection of Personal Data in Europe
This presentation focuses on the regulation of a right to privacy and personal data protection. It starts off with privacy as a fundamental right enshrined in international and European Human Rights regimes and focuses specifically on the integration of personal data protection therein. It will show how both individual legitimate expectation and human dignity has...
Reforming Politics or Refining Policies: A China Perspective
China has been demanding policymaking accountability since the late 1990s. By continuously reforming its policymaking procedure and establishing various “Americanized“ mechanisms, China adopted procedures that are quite similar to the western democracies in administrative policymaking, such as participation, evaluation and transparency. This paper characterizes China‘s reform as an initiative to “democratize“ China‘s executive administrative decision-making...
Quantitative Approaches to the Study of Constitutional Drafting
This paper surveys and critically discusses the relatively new and rapidly growing subfield of quantitative scholarship on constitutions, with particular attention to the challenges involved in addressing the question of whether and in what ways formal constitutions actually matter in the real world.
Public Participation in Administrative Decision-Making: A Northwestern China Story
Public participation in administrative decision-making is one of the basic avenues to realize publicans‘ rights. It is also the essence of publican mastering their own affairs. In recent years, China has carried on a valuable practice and exploration in public participation in the administrative decision. However, there still exist some problems: First, the main body...
Rules of Ethics and Qualifications of EU Investment Court Judges
This paper focuses on the new rules on qualifications of, and ethics applicable to, the members of investment tribunals to be established under the investment chapters of various free trade agreements (FTAs), such as the CETA the TTIP proposal, and EU – Vietnam FTA. This paper first seeks to identify whether the rules live up...
Rupture or Continuity? On Reception of Rule of Law Standards in Poland 25 Years After the “Democratic“ Transition
The Polish democratic transition was portrayed as a shining example of the victory of liberal values over the socialist clientelistic authoritarianism. Yet, for the past two years the ruling Law and Justice party has been actively dismantling the system of checks and balances that was carefully put post-1989 and pre-EU accession. The easiness of this...