Identifying Individual Rights in EU Law

Individual Rights and Contract: (Freedom and Reciprocity in Contract Law)

Proportionality in EU law : a balancing act ?

Proportionality is a legal principle that plays a key role in constitutional review of public acts. In the EU it legitimizes the constitutional claims of EU law in the context of a multi-level legal system. The application of proportionality in the EU differs based on whether EU legal acts or legal acts of the Member States are concerned. In the former case a manifestly disproportionate test is...

EU law mandates drug testing in children.

W hen it comes to access to the lat-est drugs, some scientists feel that sick children get a dodgy deal. Doctors have few safety or efficacy data to guide them; most drugs are never tested in children. To plug the data gap, the European Union has revamped its drug application process. Starting in July 2008, any company that applies to the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) to market a new drug mu...

Moral law and human rights.

HE purpose of this paper is to examine some of the basic terms in the discussion of 1 the theme of this symposium on 'Ethics and the practice of medicine'. These terms can be grouped under the headings of moral law and human rights; for if these two terms are defined a great many of the principles, whose application to medical practice is in question, will have been examined. A general paper li...

Individual Rights versus Economic Growth

Should human beings who have been granted basic rights be allowed to bargain them away? In some countries, most prominently in China, special export zones exist where workers are required to give up several of their rights in order to be employed. Are there serious objections to such renouncements? The first part of this paper discusses some of the pros and cons. In the second part, the results...