ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Endogenous Limits of the Right to Conscientious Objection: Does a Conscientious Objector Have the Right to Refuse Even 1-Day Military Service?
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- ... to address this judgment from a perspective that expands on the ECHR's previous jurisprudence. I will try to understand how the ECHR's recent judgment affects the scope and internal limits of the right. ...
- Created on 09 April 2025
- 2. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts
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- Nikos Skoutaris Scholars have often either framed federalism as an alternative to secession (Buchanan 1995) or suggested that secession is incompatible with the federal principle (Jellinek 1905). ...
- Created on 31 July 2024
- 3. Fiscal Decentralization in Federal Systems: A Comparative Story of a Principle and its Paradigms
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- ... and a comprehensive approach to (fiscal) federalism. Against the wake of an escalating recentralization, a renewed understanding of fiscal decentralization is adopted. This perspective integrates the ...
- Created on 25 July 2024
- 4. The Functional Federalism of the United Arab Emirates
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- ... region. On the occasion of the golden jubilee of the UAE’s 1971 establishment, this article aims to understand what model of distribution of powers is designed in the UAE and to what extent it is possible ...
- Created on 31 January 2024
- 5. Addressing Complexity. The rise of the hybrid multilateral climate regime and its impact on the role played by ENGOs in the governance of climate change.
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- ... ‘hybrid multilateral climate regime’ (HMCR) and it has taken trace of its process of materialization with the aim of understanding to what extent does the HMCR emerging from the Paris Agreement has strengthen ...
- Created on 10 February 2023
- 6. Subnational Courts of Last Resort in Germany and the USA
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- In this article I explore the judicial dimension of federal systems from a subnational perspective. The findings show that regardles of the type of federalism subnational courts of last resort ...
- Created on 28 September 2021
- 7. The International Climate Legal Regime and the Role of the AFOLU Sector
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- Roberto Talenti It has been years now that the scientific community is warning about the gravity of climate change consequences and about the need to effectively respond to it. However, the climate ...
- Created on 17 September 2021
- 8. European Taxes and Fiscal Justice: Citizens’ Support and Lessons from the US
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- By demonstrating the importance of the own source of EU revenue, rather than focusing solely on the size of its budget, we can understand that financing the EU is not a ‘zero-sum’ game. Therefore, ...
- Created on 30 March 2021