Three Conceptions of Law in Democratic Theory

Three Conceptions of Democratic Control

The idea of control or power is central to the notion of democracy, since the ideal is one of giving kratos to the demos: giving maximal or at least significant control over government to the people. But it turns out that the notion of kratos or control is definable in various ways and that as the notion is differently understood, so the ideal of democracy is differently interpreted. In this li...

Democratic Empowerment through Euro - Law ?

More than in any other sub-fields of European studies, the study of law-andpolitics in the European Union owes a great deal to U.S. scholarship. Given the differences in structure of the academic fields on both sides of the Atlantic, and the early development of socio-legal studies in the United States (which still has no equivalent in Europe), American scholars have been the first to challenge...

Three Conceptions of Intergenerational Justice

Multiverse conceptions in set theory

We review different conceptions of the set-theoretic multiverse and evaluate their features and strengths. In Section 1, we set the stage by briefly discussing the opposition between the ‘universe view’ and the ‘multiverse view’. Furthermore, we propose to classify multiverse conceptions in terms of their adherence to some form of mathematical realism. In Section 2, we use this classification t...

European University Institute Department of Law in Redistributive Taxation We Trust Some Elements for a Democratic Theory of Tax Law

The argument moves from the justification of the general obligation to obey the law to that of the general obligation to pay taxes (it is argued that with some exceptions, tax scholarship has played down the importance of this question) by means of describing the peculiarities of the latter in reducing the cognitive, motivational and organisational demands that plague general practical discours...