The 'conscience of Europe' in the European sovereign debt crisis : an analysis of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights on austerity measures
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The Reality of Social Rights Enforcement
TL;DR: The authors argue that most social rights enforcement has benefitted middle- or upper-class groups, rather than the poor, and that super-strong remedies like structural injunctions are the most likely ways to transform bureaucratic practice and to positively impact the lives of poorer citizens.
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The Politics of Justice in European Private Law: Social Justice, Access Justice, Societal Justice
TL;DR: The Politics of Justice in European Private Law as discussed by the authors highlights the differences between the Member States' concepts of social justice, which have developed historically, and the distinct European concept of access justice.
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The Eurozone Crisis: A Constitutional Analysis
TL;DR: The Eurozone crisis has inspired many European legal scholars to critically analyse the EU's system of economic governance, as have other events throughout the history of the European Union, from the Empty Chair Crisis to the referenda in the aftermath of the Treaty of Maastricht and the failure of the Constitution for the Eurozone.
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Protecting Socio-Economic Rights Through the European Convention on Human Rights: Trends and Developments in the European Court of Human Rights
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the potential to gain access to health care and welfare services, and the financial means to acquire them, through the development of positive obligations in ECHR rights.
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Incomplete contracts: Where do we stand?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take stock of the advances and directions for research on the incomplete contracting front and illustrate some of the main ideas of the incomplete contract literature through an example, and offer methodological insights on the standard approach to modeling incomplete contracts; in particular, they discuss a tension between two assumptions made in the literature, namely rationality and the existence of transaction costs.
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European Court of Human Rights
TL;DR: On 10 November 2005 the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (‘Court’) decided the long-running headscarf battle between Muslim students and Turkish universities in the Sahin judgment.
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International Institutions for Reducing Global Financial Instability
Kenneth Rogoff,Kenneth Rogoff +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a broad range of plans are considered, including a global lender of last resort facility, an international bankruptcy court, international debt insurance corporation, and unilateral controls on capital flows.
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The Scope of IMF Conditionality
TL;DR: A new data set drawn from the IMF's records of conditionality provides an opportunity to study the bargaining process within an important international organization and answer questions about the institution's autonomy as mentioned in this paper.
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The Development of Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights by the European Court of Human Rights
TL;DR: The European Court of Human Rights has been developing, at an expanding pace, positive obligations under the European Convention as mentioned in this paper, which require many different forms of action by member states, ranging from effectively investigating killings through to protecting peaceful demonstrators from violent attacks by their opponents.