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    EU citizens' perception of energy affordability and social and political trust

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    Published online: 26 November 2024This study investigates the relationships between social and political trust and views on energy affordability, which are crucial for promoting sustainable energy practices. The findings indicate that social and especially political trust are negatively correlated with perceptions of energy affordability. The study also finds that the probability of being highly concerned about energy affordability is declining in the level of trust, especially in countries, as those in Southern European, that prioritize energy affordability. These findings confirm the critical role of trust in effective energy policies, fostering public support for transitions to sustainable energy systems. The study recommends that policymakers enhance transparency, accountability, and public engagement to build trust, thereby improving perceptions of energy affordability and supporting sustainable energy transitions

    Public delegation in the DSA's regulatory model

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    This paper aims to explore the constitutional dimension of the DSA by offering a novel lens of interpretation. I argue that the DSA encompasses a delegation of public power to private online platforms. To this end, in the first section, I provide an overview of the legal nature and rationale of the power to delegate in a constitutional legal order. It follows an account of the types of delegation observable in the EU legal framework. Then, the paper delves into the novelties of the DSA in regulating digital platforms to map the most relevant public or quasi-public functions conferred to platform providers. This mapping effort is performed with the aim of assessing whether the concept of delegation of public power to private parties is applicable in the context of online platforms and what are its constitutional implications. In the remainder of the paper, I demonstrate the usefulness of assessing the DSA and its fundamental rights dimension with the paradigm of delegation, while not omitting to consider the possible objections to this interpretation. I conclude that to face possible criticisms attached to the notion of delegation of power within the DSA there is a need to intensify controls and scrutiny from the delegating authorities as to avoid outsizing the power of platforms

    'Up and down' : Genoese financiers and their relational capital in the early reign of Philip II

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    Defence date: 26 January 2021Examining board: Professor Regina Grafe (European University Institute); Professor Luca Molà (University of Warwick); Professor Carmen Sanz Ayán (Universidad Complutense de Madrid); Professor Manuel Herrero Sánchez (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)This doctoral thesis analyses the process of state construction in the early modern period from a joint perspective that amalgamates the agencies of state officials, lending communities, and local elites in the Hispanic Monarchy during the four initial years of Philip II’s reign. The project examines the convergence of private agendas inside and outside the royal administration, which were channelled by the Genoese lending community to overcome the consolidation of royal short-term debt in 1557 and its consequences. The application of an institutional approach, based on the works of Avner Greif, to the analysis of the social organisations that prevented a failure of coordination in the Hispanic Monarchy offers a fresh perspective on a topic normally assessed under predatory models. The specific study of two Genoese lenders who contributed to the establishment of a more viable and efficient financial system in the monarchy, Costantin Gentil and Nicolao de Grimaldo, provides details about how interregional transactions and local economies contributed to the consolidation of the early modern state

    An introduction to the collected works of Domenico Mario Nuti

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    Published online: 21 May 2023These two volumes bring together many of the most significant contributions to economic theory and policy of Domenico Mario Nuti (1937–2020)

    Regulatory sandboxes : do they speed up innovation in energy?

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    Published online: 08 June 2023Regulatory sandboxes are generally seen as an important tool to make policy and regulation evolve with the changes in our energy system and to create an equal playing field for new technologies and business models that arise with the energy transition. Although an increasing number of legal frameworks on regulatory sandboxes are being implemented in Europe, the pioneers in the Netherlands decided to close their sandbox program. These contradictory events lead to questions about the potential of regulatory sandboxes to bring innovation to the European energy sector. This paper contributes to this discussion by examining the experiences with regulatory sandboxes in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain. We compare approved sandbox projects based on their scope and regulatory derogations to identify areas of innovation and regulatory learning brought by regulatory sandboxes. We also examine the legal frameworks of the concerned countries to evaluate the interaction between the implementation of the framework and its potential to bring innovation. In this way, we develop best practices on the topics of regulatory sandboxes and their imple[1]mentation frameworks

    Race and transitional justice : an introduction

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    Why has the field of transitional justice failed to address one of the greatest injustices of human history: racism? Could it be different? This paper introduces the edited collection Race and Transitional Justice (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) that grapples with these questions and explores some potential responses. The contributions show that while race is an important aspect of many of the crimes that transitional justice is supposed to address and of the historical and socio-political contexts in which transitional justice mechanisms work, the field in fact has a poor sensitivity to the concept of race. As a result, transitional justice institutions may be sustaining the very racialisation that they could be expected to remedy. We identify two structural features that make it challenging for transitional justice to address racism: the legalization of transitional justice and epistemic injustices in transitional justice. The contributions vary in their hopes for redemption, ranging from calls to abandon the whole field because of its complicity in the indefinite maintenance of settler hegemony to the view that transitional justice provides an essential space to work towards a more just, non-racist, social order

    Law and film : critical reflections on a field in motion

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    Published online: 31 December 2024This book explores how law can be understood through film by engaging creatively with the intellectual and aesthetic dimensions of both fields. The contributors to this book consider the need to turn to film and what this means for how we come to understand law and its absences. The chapters explore a variety of narratives, aesthetics, cinematic epistemologies and legal phenomena; from assessing law in social debates to film as legal critique, from notions of justice to contemplations on evil, and from masculine vigilantism to radical feminism. Taken together, they constitute an inspiring body of work that embodies an urgency for diverse and subversive ways to challenge law’s formalism and authority; and to think about and respond variously to law’s impotence, its disappointment, or its boredom. This book will appeal to legal scholars and students in law and the humanities, especially those with interests in aesthetics, law and literature, law and culture, law and society, and critical legal theory.-- 1. Eating Popcorn Like a Lawyer: On Fictions, the Senses, and Belonging, Alexia Katsiginis, Vittoria Becci, Edward van Daalen -- 2. Writing about Evil, Alberto Rinaldi -- 3. Reading a Law Film in Cinematic Context as a Commentary on the Decline of Liberal Democracy and the Rule of Law: Emin Alper’s Burning Days (2022) read against John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Orit Kamir -- 4. Violence as Law: Reading Dirty Harry, Unforgiven & Gran Torino as Comments on Vigilantism, Günter Frankenberg -- 5. The Impossible Truth in Law and Films: The Female Gaze of Saint Omer and Anatomy of a Fall, Séverine Dusollier -- 6. Teaching Law and Feminism through Cinema: A Proposal, Helena Alviar García -- 7. Holy Motors: Law and Technology, Nathan Moore -- 8. Kafka in the Balkans: “Before the Law,” Nihilism and Crisis in Cristi Puiu’s Aurora, Camil Ungureanu -- 9. Revitalizing the Law: An Existentialist Take on Law and Film, Louis Hill -- 10. Lost Horizons, or how to Lose more Slowly?, Geoffrey Samuel -- 11. The Legal Spectacle, Elie Aslanof

    Signaling future or historical distribution grid costs via tariffs? : a welfare analysis of long-run incremental cost pricing

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    Published online: 28 March 2023The economic efficiency of distribution network tariffs may be enhanced by applying marginal cost pricing principles. This paper investigates the Long-Run Incremental Cost (LRIC) methodology, a marginal cost-based approach that has been applied in Great Britain since 2012. The long-term social welfare achieved under a coincident peak tariff set according to three different methods, i.e., LRIC, traditional historical cost-based allocation, and a theoretical benchmark, is analytically derived. The resulting social welfare is compared for a range of key system characteristics and the underlying mechanisms are discussed. The results provide evidence that LRIC is more efficient than historical cost-based allocation

    Spheres of sanctuary : introduction to special issue

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    Published online: 04 May 2023At a time when restrictive immigration policies are high on the political agenda of many states, resistance to such policies is emerging from below. One form of resistance is the provision of sanctuary by civil society and subnational administrations. Sanctuary can be understood as the creation of a safe space for immigrants where they are beyond reach for immigration law enforcement. Research on sanctuary has been proliferating in the last few years. Nevertheless, a common definition and analytical framework are still missing. This article aims to fill this gap. In it, we provide a definition of sanctuary which identifies four key features that all sanctuary initiatives have in common, and that distinguish them from other forms of social and political action. Further, we distinguish between three spheres in which sanctuary can be enacted – the territorial, social and discursive spheres – and develop a typology that identifies the spaces, modes of enactment, and types of actors associated with each sphere. We show how our typology can be used to address both empirical and normative questions that require comparing different types of sanctuary. Our aim is to provide new impulses to the growing research agenda on the contentious politics and practices of sanctuary

    Pro-claimant bias in arbitrator selection

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    Published online: 13 December 2023Recent empirical studies have confirmed that arbitrator selection affects outcomes in investor–state arbitrations. This article builds on the existing literature, relying on 48 semistructured interviews with investor-state arbitration practitioners. It makes three novel claims: (A) sophisticated counsel nowadays will take factors beyond a candidate’s appointment record into account when selecting an arbitrator. In this, a candidate’s likely ability to influence their peers’ thinking is particularly important. (B) States struggle to keep up with investors in the sophisticated process of arbitrator selection. They are frequently unable to engage counsel and select suitable arbitrators within the mandated timelines for arbitrator selection, and (C), as a consequence of the former two insights, states frequently fall into four different traps when selecting arbitrators. They appoint as their arbitrators famous jurists without significant investor-state arbitration experience, famous proinvestor arbitrators, and famous arbitrators that have publicly assumed entrenched positions and defer appointments to appointing authorities. This hinders states’ ability to effectively further their case during arbitrator selection, thus disadvantaging them in investor–state arbitrations

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