Public rights and private responsibilities

Public Enforcement Compensation and Private Rights

Data Rights and Responsibilities

A human-rights-based analysis can be a useful tool for the scientific community and policy makers as they develop codes of conduct, harmonized standards, and national policies for data sharing. The human rights framework provides a shared set of values and norms across borders, defines rights and responsibilities of various actors involved in data sharing, addresses the potential harms as well ...

Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships

This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties’ valuations of the goods produced, and the degree of impurity of these goods. When the degree of impurity is large, control rights should be given to the main investor, irrespective of preference consi...

Mandating HPV vaccination--private rights, public good.

To the Editor: Those who oppose mandating vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) as a condition for school entry generally open the debate with two fundamental questions. First, how can the government interfere in the medical decisions parents make for their children by compelling immunizations for school entry? Second, how can the HPV vaccine be a good candidate for school mandates whe...

Public-Private Contractual Networks and Third Parties' Rights

* PD Dr. iur. (Fribourg/Switzerland), LL.M. (Frankfurt a.M.), attorney-at-law (Zurich), [email protected]. This research has been presented at the Second Max Planck PostDoc-Conference on European Private Law. I would like to thank Professor Pascal Pichonnaz (Fribourg, Switzerland) for supporting my application to the conference. Furthermore, I would like to thank all participants of the conferenc...