East European ‘Pluralism’

Pluralism, Values, and the European Judge

The community of jurists and philosophers of law recently lost an unusual figure in the person of Neil MacCormick. The longtime Regius Professor of public law at the University of Edinburgh and member of the European Parliament belongs to the ranks of those who have made profound contributions to renewing our approach to European law and, in particular, to the relationship between the European ...

Why We Have No Theory of European Private Law Pluralism

The recent popularity of legal pluralism has now reached the area of European private law. In this paper I scrutinize the concepts of legal pluralism used by three of its most prominent proponents: Pierre Legrand, Jan Smits, and Thomas Wilhelmsson. I do not offer fully-fledged criticism of their theories (each of which are among the most fascinating and helpful in the European private law debat...

Religious pluralism or pluralism within religion

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Television Pluralism and Diversity and the European Commission’s Competition Policy – The Western European Experience

This article assesses the question of media concentration in the European Union (EU) in the context of the regulatory approaches taken by the Member States and the EU. It argues, despite common perceptions that the EU’s approach to protecting media pluralism is governed by a purely market approach, it is also entrenched in a significant public interest basis. It argues that media concentration ...

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