In this paper, Professor Wei Cui proposes a novel conceptual framework for predicting and interpreting the course of Pillar Two’s global adoption. The author analyses self-interested incentives for adopting Pillar Two on the part of governments aiming to maximize national income. The analysis strives to demonstrate that there is nothing inevitable about Pillar Two adoption. It argues that nations from where MNEs originate will likely suffer deep losses, and most will be better off pulling out of Pillar Two. Pillar Two’s enforcement mechanisms lack effectiveness; accounts of their purported clever design are plagued by logical inconsistencies. The piece concludes with a bold assertion that "whatever sense of novelty in institutional design Pillar Two introduces, it is sustained only by a refusal to consider fundamental normative questions about consistency with international law." Document Courtesy: SSRN This document may be accessed at: https://lnkd.in/gvCbdp9X The University of British Columbia; Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC; Reuven Avi-Yonah; Nigar Hashimzade; Daniel Hemel; Michael Keen; Peter Merrill; Noam Noked; Daniel Shaviro; Heydon Wardell-Burrus
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Competition lawyer, climate activist and cyclist with 40 years experience in the private sector both as a business adviser and senior executive -and most recently in academia and the judiciary.
“Évolution or revolution?”. Rather a strong title in my view and I certainly incline to the former but there is a lot going in the law, economics, and policy relating to abuse of dominance - at both the EU and national level. For example, the European Commission has published its draft guidelines on Article 102, the Court of Justice has given judgment in the landmark Google Shoppig case, and national competition authorities are quietly pushing the boundaries of what amounts to an abuse. Anyone wanting to get up to date or dive more deeply into all this is invited to join the workshop in Brussels on Friday afternoon co-organised by the Inclusive Competition Forum (ICF) and UCL’s Centre for Law, Economics and Society (CLES). My own contribution specific contribution will be look at the extent to which we can and are tackling abusive unsustainable practices of dominant companies as an abuse of dominance ( and do the guidelines help?). #monopoly #antitrust #competitionlaw #europeancommission #ucl #climatechange #greendeal #sustainsbility
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Full Professor of EU Law & Labour Law @ UCD, Jean Monnet ad personam Chair (from 2011)
Happy to be in Trento for UACES (University Association for Contemporary European Studies) 2024 conference. I am convening a small track, which should be interesting for anyone concerned on how the EU responds to societal instability which lies at the basis of a cacophony of crises, including with legal instruments. Our panels are in the Economics Aula 3 # We start Monday 9 am with an "author meets critics" session on "Politicising Commodification" (Roland Erne et al), for those ready for a new view on new governance from an industrial relations and public service perspective (the book can be accessed via the panel for those registered) # next Monday at 4 pm again in the same roo Dimitry Kochenov, Gareth Davies and others discuss double standards in relation to the rule of law - again an off the beaten track perspective # on Tuesday at 9:30 Moritz Jesse shares a session on "Integration between legislation, Rights and Governance", with papers on Constitutional Foundation of coordinative Europeanisation (Jonas Bornemann - another perspective on new governance, paper downloadable ), Core and Periphery in the EU legal space (Marija Liisa Öberg) on Integration through EU Social Legislation (Lorenzo Cechetti - paper downloadable) and on EU derived rights - Uniting or Dividing Societies (Audrey Plan and myself, introducing the theoretical frame of the RIGHTS-TO-UNITE project, paper downloadable) # we continue Tuesday 4:15 with a panel questioning whether EU internal Market Law is still a force of integration with papers by Moritz Jesse on social and economic trends of that case law (downloadable), Ildiko Bartha et al on the rule of law, Karina Shyrokykh et al on Europena Integration and war and Jasmin Zöllmer on the end of negative integration in the field of free movement of goods (paper downloadable) # On Wednesday 1:30 we have a full panel on Illiberalism, right-wing populism and EU law & policy - chaired by Dimitry Kochenov, and if I am not overlooking anything, the only one explicity on right wing populism here is the programme with downloadable papers and the book! See you tomorrow https://lnkd.in/eYbJnPQZ
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Date for the Diary 📅 1pm Wednesday 3 April Seminar in UCD Sutherland School of Law Prof. Dr. Martin Belov of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski will deliver a seminar: 'Rule of Law and Democracy in Times of Constitutional Polycrisis and Constitutional Polytransition'. The seminar will take place in the Harty Boardroom, L106 and all are welcome to attend. Prof. Dr. Martin Belov is visiting the School from the University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, Bulgaria as part of our Sutherland Fellows programme. Abstract: This lecture will be devoted to the rule of law in a state of flux and its increasing malperformance in the emerging post-democratic context and shall be based on several novel concepts with paradigmatic importance for the understanding the crisis of rule of law and democracy and the chances for the reestablishment of sustainable rule of law. The most important of them are the constitutional polycrisis and the constitutional polytransition. Martin goes on to explore the interplay between constitutional normalcy, crisis, and emergency, outlining the effects of emergency constitutionalism and constitutional polycrisis on the rule of law and democracy in times of constitutional transitions and assess their impact on sustainability of rule of law in post-democratic contexts.
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Call for papers!📃 The research project 'European integration and national law: Compliance in complex institutional orders' (COMPLEX) welcomes submissions of papers for a workshop on coherence in multi-level orders. 📬Deadline for paper proposals: 1 March 📍 Workshop: Oslo, 22 April In Europe, national administrations are part of a larger political order and a multi-level administrative order. In a complex multilevel context of Europeanisation and internationalisation, there are several sources of law and potentially conflicting loyalties and accountability lines. What are the prospects for rationality and legality under these conditions? COMPLEX invites researchers to submit papers that deal with administrative logics and rule of law in multilevel orders. How do agencies/officials practice EU law and why do they sometimes err? Papers that deal with conflicting institutional goals and accountability challenges are welcome. Possible themes are: 🔹 Legitimacy in multilevel orders 🔹 “Double hatted” administration and role conceptions 🔹 Rule of law in complex European administration 🔹 Modes of administrative rationality Read more 👇 https://lnkd.in/dD_WwiiN #workshop #eustudies #eu #callforpapers
Call for papers: Workshop on coherence in multi-level orders - ARENA Centre for European Studies
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Professor of Transnational European Law. "Passionate but critical about the EU at the same time" (student feedback) -- "Too many opinions for a female professor." (N.N.)
And thank you Rita Guerreiro Teixeira for this lovely review of (In)visible European Government co-edited with Maarten Hillebrandt and Ida Koivisto and published by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group last year! Rita concludes: "Overall, this volume makes an important contribution to ongoing debates on government transparency in our democracies, taking into account the new challenges brought about by an age of expanding technologies and growing suspicion towards representative politics. It sets out a research agenda that is critical of ‘transparency complacency’ (Curtin, Epilogue) and invites the reader to question an unnuanced approach to transparency and its relationship with concepts such as legitimacy, efficiency and accountability of institutions. The focus on European governance in the title of the volume should not discourage lawyers and scientists from other fields from picking it up. The points raised in the different chapters go well beyond the boundaries of EU scholarship and touch upon questions that will be of interest to public lawyers, political scientists and scholars of governance and democracy, both for their activities as researchers and as engaged citizens. These range from the discussions on the impact of researchers’ normative agendas on the selection of research topics and methods (forcing scholars to contemplate their own relationship with their research subjects), to theoretical considerations on the value of transparency and empirical analysis of the gap between legislative aspirations and the reality of the daily application of transparency policies (drawing from examples of EU governance, but also national transparency policies within Europe and the United States)." https://lnkd.in/e2bs6CBB
(In)visible European Government: Critical Approaches to Transparency as an Ideal and a Practice by Maarten Hillebrandt, Päivi Leino-Sandberg and Ida Koivisto (eds) [Routledge, Abingdon/New York, 2024, ISBN: 978-1-032-19150-8, 350pp, £135, h/bk] | International & Comparative Law Quarterly | Cambridge Core
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Very pleased with this succinct, informative, and balanced review. I especially and gratefully take note of the reviewer's observation that "[t]he points raised in the different chapters go well beyond the boundaries of EU scholarship and touch upon questions that will be of interest to public lawyers, political scientists and scholars of governance and democracy, both for their activities as researchers and as engaged citizens". Many thanks to Rita Guerreiro Teixeira for writing this review! More about the book (blurb, ToC, contributing authors) can be found here: https://lnkd.in/ew9bPtFW
Professor of Transnational European Law. "Passionate but critical about the EU at the same time" (student feedback) -- "Too many opinions for a female professor." (N.N.)
And thank you Rita Guerreiro Teixeira for this lovely review of (In)visible European Government co-edited with Maarten Hillebrandt and Ida Koivisto and published by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group last year! Rita concludes: "Overall, this volume makes an important contribution to ongoing debates on government transparency in our democracies, taking into account the new challenges brought about by an age of expanding technologies and growing suspicion towards representative politics. It sets out a research agenda that is critical of ‘transparency complacency’ (Curtin, Epilogue) and invites the reader to question an unnuanced approach to transparency and its relationship with concepts such as legitimacy, efficiency and accountability of institutions. The focus on European governance in the title of the volume should not discourage lawyers and scientists from other fields from picking it up. The points raised in the different chapters go well beyond the boundaries of EU scholarship and touch upon questions that will be of interest to public lawyers, political scientists and scholars of governance and democracy, both for their activities as researchers and as engaged citizens. These range from the discussions on the impact of researchers’ normative agendas on the selection of research topics and methods (forcing scholars to contemplate their own relationship with their research subjects), to theoretical considerations on the value of transparency and empirical analysis of the gap between legislative aspirations and the reality of the daily application of transparency policies (drawing from examples of EU governance, but also national transparency policies within Europe and the United States)." https://lnkd.in/e2bs6CBB
(In)visible European Government: Critical Approaches to Transparency as an Ideal and a Practice by Maarten Hillebrandt, Päivi Leino-Sandberg and Ida Koivisto (eds) [Routledge, Abingdon/New York, 2024, ISBN: 978-1-032-19150-8, 350pp, £135, h/bk] | International & Comparative Law Quarterly | Cambridge Core
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Section 1, Massey College, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Jane Goodall Institute, Lawyer, Educator, Writer
YOU'RE INVITED TO A BOOK LAUNCH! April 15, 4 p.m., Massey College, 4 Devonshire Place, Toronto. Come and hear from the editor and other contributors. Drink a glass - or three - and commune with some pretty great folks. https://lnkd.in/gtkCkUKK Here's what a few experts had to say about the book: “Comprehensive and compelling, these essays probe the intersection of history, law, policy, and politics, reflecting the dynamics of a constitutional democracy.” Irwin Cotler, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights "The right book at the right time!" Patrick Taillon, Université Laval“ The book brings together diverse voices to produce the most comprehensive study of this controversial clause. A must-read for anyone interested in human rights, democracy, and the future of Canada.” Justice Nathalie Des Rosiers, Ontario Superior Court of Justice“ "This is the most comprehensive collection of essays on Canada's notwithstanding clause produced to date. It brings together leading constitutional scholars, thinkers and practitioners to analyze some of the leading issues and challenges with the Charter's override clause. [italics] The Nothwithstanding Clause and the Charter [italics] offers a diversity of perspectives in support and in critique of the controversial constitutional provision. It will be of great value to all those interested in Canadian constitutional law and politics." Adam Dodek, Professor and Dean Emeritus, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law This is a fascinating and provocative collection of essays on one of the most contested features of the Canadian constitution, the notwithstanding clause. It is a must-read for those who want to learn about, and dissect contrasting views on this powerful, rights-implicating legislative tool.” Emmett Macfarlane, co-author of Legislating under the Charter: Parliament, Executive Power, and Rights. McGill-Queen's University Press, Massey College, Section1
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Call for papers!📃 The research project 'European integration and national law: Compliance in complex institutional orders' (COMPLEX) welcomes submissions of papers for a workshop on coherence in multi-level orders. 📬Deadline for paper proposals: 1 March 📍 Workshop: Oslo, 22 April In Europe, national administrations are part of a larger political order and a multi-level administrative order. In a complex multilevel context of Europeanisation and internationalisation, there are several sources of law and potentially conflicting loyalties and accountability lines. What are the prospects for rationality and legality under these conditions? COMPLEX invites researchers to submit papers that deal with administrative logics and rule of law in multilevel orders. How do agencies/officials practice EU law and why do they sometimes err? Papers that deal with conflicting institutional goals and accountability challenges are welcome. Possible themes are: 🔹 Legitimacy in multilevel orders 🔹 “Double hatted” administration and role conceptions 🔹 Rule of law in complex European administration 🔹 Modes of administrative rationality Read more 👇 https://lnkd.in/dD_WwiiN #workshop #eustudies #eu #callforpapers
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Happy to see the special section on truth in law (no less!) out in this new issue of the European Journal of Legal Studies - based on a workshop co-created with Helga Molbæk-Steensig at the European University Institute in 2022. My contribution "Overcoming Temptation?" draws on work co-authored with Mikael Rask Madsen on the on the alleged empirical turn in (international) law. Using our taxonomy to assess the contributions, I tentatively submit that IL-scholarship may be experiencing some measure of empirical fatigue. (Incidentally, the reader gets two special sections for the price of one, and the other is a book symposium on my iCourts-colleague Jan Komàrek ’s excellent edited volume "European Constitutional Imaginaries: Between Ideology and Utopia" (OUP 2023)). What's not to like? https://lnkd.in/du-kFakQ
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Professor of European and Comparative Administrative Law and Procedure at Maastricht University
Join us for this new episode in our series of talks on #science in #court #europeanlaw #riskregulation #dataprotection #complexity #uncertainty
🔎 How do the CJEU and the General Court handle complex assessments? 🤔 Online talk with Judge Maja Brkan on 14 June 2024 as part of our series on scientific uncertainty before courts, co-organized by Mariolina Eliantonio and Maria Weimer within the research project "Transformative Effects of Globalisation in Law". To register, see the link below. ⬇ https://lnkd.in/epDwaNqx
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