The dog that did not bark in the night: Researches on the absence of litigation

This paper considers the role and availability of case-law, case analysis and critique in legal research and writing. Professor Terence Daintith draws attention to the possibility that there may not always be any relevant case-law to review, so a researcher may be confronted with an issue that might reasonably be the subject of litigation – but there does not appear to have been any.  The author suggests that such absences may present research puzzles and problems that are likely to be much more difficult than those involved in developing a critique of a decided case or cases and it is these problems he investigates here, illustrated by particular reference to research on the development of property rights in oil and gas.

Towards an Economy of Higher Education

This paper draws a distinction between ways thinking and acting, and hence of policy and practice in higher education, in terms of different kinds of economy: economies of exchange and economies of excess. Crucial features of economies of exchange are outlined and their presence in prevailing conceptions of teaching and learning is illustrated. These are contrasted with other possible forms of practice, which in turn bring to light the nature of an economy of excess. In more philosophical terms, and to expand on the picture, economies of excess are elaborated with reference, first, to the understanding of alterity in the work of Emmanuel Levinas and, second, to the idea of Dionysian intensity that is to be found in Nietzsche. In the light of critical comment on some current directions in policy and practice, the implications of these ways of thinking for the administrator, the teacher and the student in higher education are explored

2000-2001 School Annual Report

2000-2001 School Annual Repor

Legal analysis of economic policy

Digitised version produced by the EUI Library and made available online in 2020

The design and performance of long-term contracts

Digitised version produced by the EUI Library and made available online in 2020