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Publication A Blueprint on global legal Education. The European perspective(Springer Nature Singapore, 2022-07-14) Arias, Sonsoles; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75This chapter is based on the report “Blueprint on global legal education” by the International Bar Association and the Law Schools Global League that outlines the main trends and challenges that legal education faces globally. In this chapter, the coordinators of the report describe the quantitative and qualitative research methodology used to develop the report and reach the conclusions from the analysis, including the main key trends, challenges and opportunities emerging globally in current legal education, with a particular focus on Continental Europe. The key trends identified in global legal education include internationalization, technology and the development of new skills, while one of the main challenges identified is the regulation of legal education and the legal profession, an aspect that could hinder internationalization and innovation. Special mention should be made of legal education in the COVID-19 era. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, new challenges in legal education have arisen and need to be addressed.Publication Actividad De Promoción Y Fomento(2024-09-02) Pastor Merchante, Fernando; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75-Publication Análisis de la litigiosidad administrativa y contenciosoadministrativa en materia de responsabilidad patrimonial(Centro de Investigación de Justicia Administrativa, 2021-10-28) Pastor Merchante, Fernando; Díez Sastre, Silvia; Esteban Miguel, Alfonso; González Alonso, Alicia; Marco Peñas, Ester; Martín Delgado, Isaac; Martínez Sánchez, César; Pastor Merchante, Fernando; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75-Publication Arms Trade and Weapons Export Control: The Case of the European Arms Supplies to the Saudi/UAE-led coalition in the Context of the War in Yemen(Taylor & Francis, 2021) Aksenova, Marina; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75International arms sales are a thriving business giving rise to a host of legal concerns for both the supplying and the recipient countries. How much due diligence is a ‘sending’ state required to engage in before weapons are sold? Does state authorization effectively obviate the existence of fault in corporate officials supplying arms later to be used in the commission of war crimes? Finally, to what extent will the new Arms Trade Treaty change state practice? This contribution briefly examines some of the above-mentioned concerns with reference to the recent submission by the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) to the International Criminal Court in which the ECCHR advocates for the opening of preliminary examinations into the conduct of several European companies supplying arms to the Saudi/UAE-led coalition in the context of the war in Yemen.Publication Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace: Exploring Three Sets of Issues(2023-05-11) Delerue, François; Cristiano, Fabio; Broeders, Dennis; Douzet, Frédérick; Géry, Aude; European Union’s Erasmus+; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75This edited volume explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming international conflict in cyberspace. Over the past three decades, cyberspace developed into a crucial frontier and issue of international conflict. However, scholarly work on the relationship between AI and conflict in cyberspace has been produced along somewhat rigid disciplinary boundaries and an even more rigid sociotechnical divide – wherein technical and social scholarship are seldomly brought into a conversation. This is the first volume to address these themes through a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary approach. With the intent of exploring the question ‘what is at stake with the use of automation in international conflict in cyberspace through AI?’, the chapters in the volume focus on three broad themes, namely: (1) technical and operational, (2) strategic and geopolitical and (3) normative and legal. These also constitute the three parts in which the chapters of this volume are organised, although these thematic sections should not be considered as an analytical or a disciplinary demarcation. This book will be of much interest to students of cyber-conflict, AI, security studies and International Relations.Publication Ciudadanía de la Unión, Derechos de Voto y Nacionalidad(Aranzadi, 2023) Garot, Marie José; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Hace treinta años, en la Conferencia Intergubernamental de 1991, España propuso el establecimiento de una ciudadanía europea: una nueva institución jurídica al servicio del ciudadano, que formalizaba un doble vínculo político, con el Estado miembro y con la Unión. A esa ciudadanía europea, complementaria de la nacional, se asociaban un haz de derechos que en aquel momento del proceso de integración constituían un avance importante. También se establecía un procedimiento especial para completarlos con el paso del tiempo. Sin embargo, treinta años después, esas expectativas de actualización no se han cumplido. En una Unión cuya dimensión política no ha dejado de fortalecerse, el estatuto de la ciudadanía europea requiere una profundización. En ese lazo político - institucional que constituye la ciudadanía europea nos jugamos en gran medida el futuro de la democracia europea y, por ende, el futuro de la Unión. La libre circulación de personas, considerado uno de los mayores logros de la integración por los ciudadanos europeos, ha conllevado un aumento notable del número de ciudadanos que residen y trabajan en otro Estado miembro diferente al de su nacionalidad. La contribución de estos ciudadanos a las sociedades que los acogen y en aras a reforzar la identidad europea, requiere de un mayor esfuerzo por parte de los Estados miembros de fortalecer los derechos de los ciudadanos europeos. Esta obra recopila algunos de los temas de mayor relevancia en relación con la ciudadanía europea.Publication Conclusion: Universality, dignity, and the five great elements(Edward Elgard, 2023-05-18) Aksenova, Marina; Gantheret, Fiana; Guibert, Nolwenn; Stolk, Sofia; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75The concluding chapter builds bridges between the notions of art and aesthetics, human rights, universality, and dignity. The fields of aesthetics and human rights strive towards universality that transcends identities. Our ability to appreciate beauty is universal even if individual tastes differ with respect to the specific artistic object. Human rights discourse embraces universality in the form of human dignity - an irreducible core uniting all people and rendering them worthy of rights and duties simply by virtue of existing. The second part of the chapter draws on Indian philosophy in exploring the idea of universality through the five great elements - earth, water, fire, air, and space. Each element corresponds to a set of principles governing all of life, including solidity, fluidity, and transformation. Each chapter in this volume is then brought under this classification based on intuitive insight.Publication Courts in the Constitution making process: Paradoxes and Justifications(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-16) Kouroutakis, Antonios; Belov, Martin; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75This chapter examines the role of the judiciary in four constitutional orders, Colombia, South Africa, Honduras, and Nepal in the constitution-making process in 1991, 1993, 2009, and 2011, respectively. It highlights paradoxes but also to offer justifications, both formal and substantive, for the intervention of the courts in the constitutionalization of a new legal order. The chapter argues that the existence of an interim constitution or a total revision of the existing constitution may grant direct authority to the court to intervene in the constitution-making process, for instance by controlling the constituent assembly, reviewing its acts and even certifying the final constitutional document. It examines the formal justifications for the courts’ intervention. The chapter focuses on the case of South Africa and shows that the existence of an interim constitution may provide the positive law ground for the courts’ intervention. It also focuses on the substantive grounds that permit the courts’ intervention in such process, when formal justifications are absent.Publication El peso de la deslealtad en la configuración del referéndum autonómico(Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2021) Arias, Sonsoles; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75-Publication Exploring three sets of issues(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-05-11) Delerue, François; Cristiano, Fabio; Broeders, Dennis; Douzet, Frédérick; Géry, Aude; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Over the past three decades, cyberspace developed into a crucial frontier and issue of international conflict. However, scholarly work on the relationship between AI and conflict in cyberspace has been produced along somewhat rigid disciplinary boundaries and an even more rigid sociotechnical divide – wherein technical and social scholarship are seldomly brought into a conversation. This is the first volume to address these themes through a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary approach. With the intent of exploring the question ‘what is at stake with the use of automation in international conflict in cyberspace through AI?’, the chapters in the volume focus on three broad themes, namely: (1) technical and operational, (2) strategic and geopolitical and (3) normative and legal. These also constitute the three parts in which the chapters of this volume are organised, although these thematic sections should not be considered as an analytical or a disciplinary demarcation.Publication Global Trade in 2030(Bloomsbury, 2022-07-25) Kouroutakis, Antonios; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Trade of goods and services is a vital activity going hand in hand with the development of humankind. In fact, trade has followed the pace of human development; from the initial activity of the exchange of goods, nowadays we have moved to a global trade model. When the structure of the international economy was built after World War II, with the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF), global trade was not officially institutionalised in the Bretton Woods agreement. While the initiative to establish the International Trade Organization (ITO) failed, the vacuum was filled by the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Eventually, in April 1994 an agreement was reached and the World Trade Organization (WTO) was established.Publication Introduction: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Atrocities: Criminological and Socio-Legal Approaches to International Criminal Law.(Bloomsbury, 2020-12-17) Aksenova, Marina; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75It is evident from the on-going debates on whether state policy is an element of crimes against humanity that this category of core international crimes still struggles with establishing its own identity. Originally conceived at Nuremberg as an extension of war crimes, it grew into an independent and ambitious legal category, which seeks to address gross human rights abuses committed on a massive scale in peace- and wartime alike. At the same time, this group of offences breeds a lot of ambiguity because of its over reliance on customary international law. With all the fluidity engendered by the weak legal foundation, where to find justification for international prosecution of crimes against humanity? This paper invokes criminologically related work of Emile Durkheim to support the claim that moral legitimacy of crimes against humanity as a group of offences flows from the feelings collectively shared by individuals across state borders. Repulsion towards certain acts is ingrained in the consciousness of people worldwide.Publication Legal Clinic de IE University(Aranzadi, 2022) Arias, Sonsoles; Sánchez Fernández, Sara; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Con esta obra se pretende dar a conocer qué se hace y cómo se trabaja en las Clínicas jurídicas, cuya cifra va aumentando cada año. En ella han participado más de cincuenta autores en un total de veintinueve capítulos con proyectos en los que está muy presente la función social de las universidades y cuya esencia transciende de lo convencional. En definitiva, por sus propias características, esta obra se convierte en un referente jurídico para todo profesional que quiera romper una lanza en favor de la justicia social y la defensa de los derechos humanos.Publication Legal Tech in Public Administration(Cambridge University Press, 2021-11-07) Kouroutakis, Antonios; DiMatteo, Larry; Janssen, André; Ortolani, Pietro; Elizalde, Francisco de; Cannarsa, Michel; Durovic, Mateja; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Humanity always moves forward. From the agricultural revolution, which substantially increased productivity with new tools and methods, and on to the industrial revolution with an unprecedented improvement of manufacturing processes. Another step forward is the recent transition from the industrial revolution to the information revolution. The information revolution has accelerated due to the growing computational power in combination with network connectivity, which allows every type of device to be connected to the Internet, while collecting and processing masses of data. Interestingly, big data and the Internet of Things has providing a bridge between the newer information economy and more traditional industriesPublication Márgenes para la actuación autonómica en el ámbito de la actividad de fomento(Lustel, 2022-01-01) Pastor Merchante, Fernando; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Publication Mecanismos de democracia directa en la República Federal de Alemania: una aproximación a la iniciativa revocatoria en el ámbito local(Aranzadi, 2023) Arias, Sonsoles; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75La iniciativa ciudadana vinculada al referéndum es la facultad atribuida a un número de ciudadanos o a un porcentaje de ellos para instar la celebración de un referéndum sobre una cuestión política de interés general o sobre un texto normativo, remitiendo al cuerpo electoral la decisión sobre su oportunidad, su aprobación o su abrogación normativa. Este tipo de iniciativa fue ideada por Condorcet e incorporada a la Constitución francesa de 1793, pero cayó en el olvido hasta que tiempo después fue recuperada en Suiza y, bajo el empuje del movimiento progresista, en varios estados de los EEUU. Y, a partir de su experiencia, se fue extendiendo en el derecho comparado, especialmente en los últimos años, al punto de integrar hoy el acervo constitucional de un buen número de democracias que la regulan y practican en diversos niveles de gobierno. En este libro se estudia la regulación de las diversas modalidades de iniciativa ciudadana vinculada al referéndum y se valora la funcionalidad de impulso o contrapeso que pueden desempeñar en las democracias representativas. Los autores analizan la iniciativa popular de referéndum sobre reformas constitucionales (constitutucional initiative), la iniciativa propositiva de referéndum sobre leyes (legislative initiative), las iniciativas de referéndums sobre decisiones de transcendencia nacional (agenda initiative), de ratificación referendaria de leyes y de abrogación de leyes en vigor (abrogative initiative) y también la iniciativa de revocación de mandatos (recall initiative) en su vertiente individual y colectiva. En cada una de estas modalidades se abordan los principales aspectos de su formalización jurídica: la determinación del número de ciudadanos legitimados, la selección de las materias susceptibles de iniciativa (o de los mandatos objeto de recall), el control de su admisibilidad, su procedimiento de ejercicio y la determinación de sus consecuencias jurídico-políticas.Publication Non-Criminal Justice Fact-Work in the Age of Accountability(Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher (TOAEP), 2020-07-27) Aksenova, Marina; Bergsmo, Morten; Stahn, Carsten; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75-Publication Non-Fiscal Tax Policies and State Sovereignty: From the Rise of Modern Nation States to Globalization and Corporate Feudalism(Edward Elgar, 2024) Allevato, Giulio; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75In this interdisciplinary book, Giulio Allevato explores how the non-fiscal function of the taxing power has contributed to the establishment, consolidation, and maintenance of an effective power to govern in modern nation states. Innovative in its historical approach, this book illustrates how the link between non-budgetary tax policies and state sovereignty continues to play out in the current global landscape.Publication Public Data, AI Applications and the Transformation of the State: Contemporary Challenges to Democracy(Springer Nature, 2024-12-12) Kouroutakis, Antonios; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75The use of AI applications and their abilities might have an unparallel transformative force on the state and the administration’s relationship with its citizens. Their application has the potential to usher in a new paradigm where alternative ways to perform administrative tasks may emerge. The deployment of such technology in the private and the public sector signals that the time has come for their regulation. The current EU legal framework and proposed legislation for regulating AI is limited in critical ways, as demonstrated by the analysis of the AI Act and positive law in Sect. 3.2. This chapter argues that AI applications employed by the public sector should be subject to a separate risk category for two reasons: first because specific safeguards are necessary in relation to the AI applications in the public sector in order to enhance the legitimacy and accountability of such applications, and second because AI applications in the public sector with access to the lake of data of the state create an unprecedented public resource, which must be safeguarded from malicious incumbents who would be keen to take advantage of such resource for self-entrenchment purposes.Publication Separation of Powers and Executive Clemency in the Civil Law World(Routledge, 2020) Arias, Sonsoles; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75This chapter examines comparatively the executive clemency laws of several unitary and federal civil law systems, namely Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, and Spain. It aims to compare and contrast different constitutional and legislative executive clemency mechanisms in correlation with specific separation of powers models. Executive clemency, sometimes known as the power to pardon or the prerogative of mercy, occupies an ever-present place in modern constitutional documents around the world. The power to pardon falls within the constitutional competence of the president. The Constitution of the French Fifth Republic was adopted in 1958, establishing a semi-presidential system of separation of powers. The power of the president to pardon such a crime and such a prisoner within a democracy where the rule of law prevailed was questioned at length by the media. The modern power to grant clemency falls within executive competence.