politika | 23:42, 31 July 2009
Portugal, Sinarchy and Corruption_A Fórmula do Poder_Sandra Balão & Moisei Ostrogorski
politika | 22:52, 31 July 2009
A New Experience – Welcome note
Jaanika Erne | 22:45, 31 July 2009
The ECHR contains important values for the whole Europe. If one thinks backwards, about the time, when the ECHR was composed – Europe had just emerged from the war – the European leaders wished to create a system, which would prevent such a war from happening again. They thought that the ECHR could be [...]
Jaanika Erne | 23:50, 30 July 2009
as important guarantors of democracy.
The freedom of thought in Article 9 of the ECHR is closely linked to other provisions in the ECHR, one of those being the freedom of expression.
In the ECHR, Article 10 (1) says:
„1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to [...]
J Clive-Matthews | 13:19, 30 July 2009
A few pointers for newcomers to blogging, as well as where to find other good Europe-focussed blogs to spark ideas
tratados | 11:37, 30 July 2009
This new “Ideas on Europe” blog, Tratados, will focus on themes related with EU foreign policy, European Security and Defence and European Constitutionalism, both from an academic and a policy-oriented perspective.
“Tratados” means ‘treaties’ in Portuguese and it also the name of another blog that I’ve been managing in the last months, covering some of these issues, [...]
Jaanika Erne | 20:46, 29 July 2009
An excerpt of my article, “Private Law Consciousness of the Estonian Nation in the Pre-Statehood and Early Post-Statehood Periods. Some Legal Problems Related to Transformation of Societies and Law Reforms”:
“[t]he concept of law also embraces understanding of law. In turn understanding of law is related to language, whereas development of legal language is related to [...]
vanessabuth | 12:42, 29 July 2009
A project I undertook in Berlin during my Master in 2006, unfortunately mostly in German:
Die Stärke der Kleinen
Rolle und Zukunft lokaler NGOs im neuen Europa
Im Europa des 21. Jahrhundert spielen NGOs eine elementare Rolle in der Formulierung von Gesetzen, der Beseitigung europäischer und [...]
Jaanika Erne | 22:21, 28 July 2009
I recently read an e-book on Logical Models in Social Sciences, by Rein Taagepera, and thought that since I already started with social policy issues here, and being a lawyer from Estonia, I could introduce the thought of some Estonian authors.
The referred book made me think that if there is an order in the Universe, [...]
Jaanika Erne | 1:34, 28 July 2009
The last article I read that made me think was Donald J. Kochan’s “Black Tuesday and The Graying of the Legitimacy of Governmental Intervention: When Tomorrow is Just a Future Yesterday” at The Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection.
Why did this article make me think? At page 3 the author states that people are [...]
