This book provides a precise framework for interpreting EU anti-discrimination law and thereby facilitates the resolution of difficult cases in conformity with EU law. It assesses the leading theoretical approaches and reconstructs the CJEU’s concept of discrimination through five case-law studies. Its central claim is that anti-discrimination rules do not serve solely to protect personality rights, but are primarily intended to reshape the markets for employment, housing and consumption so that social participation and human flourishing are, as far as possible, independent of protected characteristics. The study combines private law doctrine, EU law and political philosophy. It is aimed at scholars and practitioners.
This book provides a systematic classification of jurisdictional rules in unfair competition law in the context of advancing digitalisation. It demonstrates how the development and significance of the 'floating jurisdiction' principle under the Unfair Competition Act (UWG) can be traced and integrated into modern proce...
How do constitutional courts shape parties' links to society? This study compares the jurisprudence of Germany's Federal Constitutional Court and Brazil's Supreme Federal Tribunal on party financing. Both courts pursue the same goal yet arrive at opposite outcomes. While the BVerfG acts as a dialogical guardian, promot...
The study examines the interaction between international public law and private law through the examples of state immunity, the codification of private international law, the right of access to court and international investment protection. It argues that the classical distinction between "public law" and "private law"...
The article aims at mapping approaches to secularism in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and, to a lesser extent, the European Court of Justice. After an initial discussion of the challenge inherent in defining secularism, five approaches to secularism are identified. From those five approaches, the...
M. Ventura· Religion & Human Rights· 0 citations
This paper sheds light on a key point of contention within the international climate regime: the differing normative understandings of distributive climate justice held by the two ‘climate leaders’ – the EU and China. Drawing on the theoretical framework of American pragmatism, the convictions guiding the actions of bo...
If political tyranny implies the exclusion of the people from public affairs, then freedom is the practice of common ownership of political institutions. Theodosiadis (2025:5-6) develops this approach by tracing its ancient Greek roots, clarifying its American traditions and identifying its institutional forms for a de...
Eleni Boliaki· Dianoesis· 0 citations
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