The Foundations of the Duty to Give Reasons and a Normative Reconstruction

in Fisher, Elizabeth; King, Jeff; Young, Alison (Eds.) The Foundations and Future of Public Law (in press)

Despite operating in highly constrained legal environments, executive actors may act in a constitutive capacity. This observation prompts a critical assessment of the role of procedural principles in EU ... [more ▼]

Despite operating in highly constrained legal environments, executive actors may act in a constitutive capacity. This observation prompts a critical assessment of the role of procedural principles in EU administrative law. As norms of conduct deployed by executive bodies during the process of norm concretization, procedural principles may have legal dimensions that, while constitutionally relevant, may not come to the fore in judicial review. The chapter develops this argument with regard to the multifaceted character of the duty to give reasons. It argues that, as a norm of conduct, the duty to give reasons ought to ensure the constitutional embeddedness of the constitutive action of EU executive bodies. Such role is consistent both with the original relevance of the duty to give reasons to the law of integration (in the context of the European Coal and Steel Community) and with the current EU constitutional framework. The latter justifies reinstituting the original constitutional function of the duty to give reasons, irrespective of its current scope in the context of judicial review. [less ▲]

Verwahrung (§§ 688-700), in Erman, BGB

in Erman (Ed.) Verwahrung (§§ 688-700), in Erman, BGB (in press)

§§ 54 bis 57 WpHG betreffend Positionslimits und Positionsmanagementkontrollen bei Warenderivaten und Positionsmeldungen

in Kapitalmarktrechtskommentar (in press)

Bürgschaft (§§ 765-778), in Erman, BGB

in Erman (Ed.) Bürgschaft (§§ 765-778), in Erman, BGB (in press)

§ 53 WpHG betreffend Leerverkäufe

in Schwark; Zimmer (Eds.) Kapitalmarktrechtskommentar (in press)

Political Food Communication. Contrasting Food Governance Claims via Labelling Schemes and priorities of private and professional consumers

in Godeman, Jasmin; Bartelmeß (Eds.) Handbuch Ernährungskommunikation. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven im Kontext von Nachhaltigkeit (in press)

Political food communication may take many forms, including direct recommendations to public institutions and private households (cf. Reckinger/Régnier 2017), or more indirect labelling schemes that ... [more ▼]

Political food communication may take many forms, including direct recommendations to public institutions and private households (cf. Reckinger/Régnier 2017), or more indirect labelling schemes that certify various types of quality – from sustainable via nutritious to ethical. The underlying governance claims differ in those cases: in the first one, priority is given to analytical, top-down information to procurement actors and to individuals of a given population; in the second one, action is rather taken in the direction of food production and transformation, be it top-down or participatory, with an associated effort to make the communicated guarantees transparent to consumers. In this article, we will analyse in a praxeological perspective the contrasting governance claims that structure a selection of labelling schemes in contemporary Luxembourg: official ones (such as organic produce, among others), voluntary and regional ones, international ones, as well as supermarket brands blurring boundaries and using overlaps of several labels. We will compare the guarantees and transparency that labels tend to offer in the socio-ecological, socioeconomic, sociocultural and socio-political dimensions of food certification, viewed as a potentially enabling or disabling form of food communication. At the same time, we will examine the potential of these aids for individual consumers’ priorities and public procurement actors’ legal framework in selecting foodstuffs with added sustainable or ethical value, asking the question if such certifications are efficient tools of food communication and ultimately of an enhanced food literacy in an arena of potentially conflicting and crowded messages. [less ▲]

The duty of loyalty: A Tool for Fundamental Rights Enforcement in the EU Legal System

in Frenkel, David-Arie; Emilio Nunez, Jorge (Eds.) International Law and Social Justice (in press)

The effective enforcement of rights within the European Union, understood as a legal system overarched by the duty of loyalty, depends upon judicial independence. This chapter introduces some recent legal ... [more ▼]

The effective enforcement of rights within the European Union, understood as a legal system overarched by the duty of loyalty, depends upon judicial independence. This chapter introduces some recent legal developments pertaining to its double dimension as a fundamental right and as a structural duty of the Member states to discuss four enforcing tools that concretise the duty of loyalty: the self-standing right to an independent tribunal, the infringement procedure, the preliminary ruling procedure and the technique of exceptional circumstances. In that context, the chapter rejects the idea that the multifaceted configuration of the European Union is detrimental to fundamental rights protection and stresses the relevance of all the actors of the legal system for the effective enforcement of rights. [less ▲]

§§ 675u - 676c zur Haftung des Zahlungsdienstleisters, Münch. Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch

in Zetzsche, Dirk Andreas (Ed.) §§ 675u - 676c zur Haftung des Zahlungsdienstleisters, Münch. Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch (in press)

§§ 53a bis 56 AktG zur Gleichbehandlung der Aktionäre und Nebenabreden mit Aktionären

in Zetzsche, Dirk Andreas; Noack, Ulrich (Eds.) Kölner Kommentar zum Aktiengesetz (in press)

Europäisches Kapitalmarktrecht: Grundlagen (§ 12)

in Enzyklopädie des Europarechts, Europäisches Privat- und Unternehmensrecht, Band 6 (in press)

Europäisches Kapitalmarktrecht: Marktmissbrauchsrecht (§ 14)

in Enzyklopädie des Europarechts, Europäisches Privat- und Unternehmensrecht, Band 6 (in press)

Ethnography: A Much-Advocated but Under-Used Qualitative Methodology in Published Accounts of Family Business Research

in de Massis, Alfredo; kammerlander, Nadine (Eds.) Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for Family Business (in press)

In parallel with the growing interest in qualitative research methods in family business, many family business scholars advocate greater use of ethnographic methods to advance the field further. This ... [more ▼]

In parallel with the growing interest in qualitative research methods in family business, many family business scholars advocate greater use of ethnographic methods to advance the field further. This endorsement rests at least on two arguments. On the one hand, there is a need to widen, extend, or deepen our perspectives to better understand the ‘boundary crossing’ nature of families in business. On the other hand, the majority of the proposals to extend ethnographic research aim to tap into important but still under-explored complex tacit processes of family firms. However, we found that ethnographic research in family business settings remain scarcely published. This chapter reviews a set of family business studies that have used ethnographic methods, and which have been published in business and management journals in order to examine their orientations, main findings, techniques adopted, and epistemological/ontological stances. Looking forward, we end this chapter with a brief discussion on how the practice of ethnography is changing with reference to visual and virtual applications of ethnographic principles. [less ▲]

Luxembourg: Grand-Duke Henri’s refusal, in 2008, to sign the bill legalizing euthanasia

in Hazell, Robert; Morris, Bob (Eds.) European Monarchies Compared (in press)

Unemployment at 50+: economic and psychosocial consequences

in Wanka, Anna; Walsh, Kieran; Scharf, Thomas (Eds.) et al Social Exclusion in Later Life: Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives. International Perspectives on Aging (in press)

Throughout the lifespan, unemployment has severe consequences in terms of economic exclusion, and overall social exclusion, but is compounded in older age. Within the EU, a growing number of older adults ... [more ▼]

Throughout the lifespan, unemployment has severe consequences in terms of economic exclusion, and overall social exclusion, but is compounded in older age. Within the EU, a growing number of older adults (50+) are affected by joblessness. Job loss at a later stage in a professional career may determine an early and permanent exit from the labour market with significant psychosocial consequences. Herein lies the age-specific risk for older unemployed adults: once becoming unemployed they are at greater risk at staying unemployed. As a result, older unemployed people may face income cuts, deprivation of a central adulthood role and their mental and physical health may suffer. In this chapter, we draw attention to the latent functions of work, and the psychosocial consequences of job loss in later life. Applying a life-course perspective, the aim of this chapter is to explore how job loss can be framed as a form of acute economic exclusion, and how this exclusion can have significant implications for poor mental health. In a context of rising retirement ages, and the lack of preparedness of the labour market to deal with an ageing workforce, it is essential to understand these dynamics to guide policy development. [less ▲]

Que faut-il entendre par un « lien d’intégration suffisant » ? Questions soulevées par la jurisprudence relative à l’accès des travailleurs frontaliers aux avantages sociaux dans l’État membre d’activité

in Mélanges Pascal Ancel (in press)

Bordertextures – vers une approche transdisciplinaire des frontières. Un rapport d’atelier

in Hamez, Grégory (Ed.) Réalités, perceptions et représentations des frontières de l'Union Européenne (in press)

La présente contribution est conçue sous forme d'un rapport d'atelier et donne un premier aperçu concernant le développement d'une approche des phénomènes de frontières et d'espaces frontaliers sur la ... [more ▼]

La présente contribution est conçue sous forme d'un rapport d'atelier et donne un premier aperçu concernant le développement d'une approche des phénomènes de frontières et d'espaces frontaliers sur la base des études culturelles. Cette approche tente d'être plus large que celle correspondant aux perspectives jusqu'à présent préconisées par les sciences sociales et appréhende les phénomènes des frontières et des espaces frontaliers en tant qu'entités composées de différentes pratiques et différents discours faisant référence aux frontières et aux différences. Ces entités comprises au sens de bordertextures sont exemplairement illustrées à travers des phénomènes concernant la frontière entre les États-Unis et le Mexique, la frontière franco-allemande et l'Irlande du Nord et elles sont déclinées en différentes dimensions d'analyse. Parmi ces dernières, la corporéalité, la spatialité et la matérialité figurent parmi les approches heuristiques des bordertextures que la présente contribution aborde à titre d'exemples. L'approche relativise la perspective largement répandue correspondant à une conception territoriale de la frontière pour élargir la palette des perspectives analytiques et celles des domaines analysés au sein des Border Studies. [less ▲]

Deutsch als Unterrichtssprache in Kontexten der Migration und Mehrsprachigkeit: Zum Bildungssystem in Luxemburg.

in Deutsche in Russland: Lebenslanges Sprachenlernen. Motivation. Potenzial. Modelle. Vorträge der Internationalen wissenschaftlich-praktischen Sprachkonferenz. Moskau, 1.-4. Oktober 2017. (in press)

Borders and Migration

in Wassenberg, Birte; Reitel, Bernard; Thevenet, Anne (Eds.) et al Critical Dictionary on Cross-Border Cooperation in Europe (in press)

Hegemonic University Tales: Discussing Narrative Positioning within the Academic Field between Humboldtian and Managerial Governance

in Lueg, Klarissa; Lundholt, Marianne (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives (in press)

This chapter observes and analyzes hegemonic narratives in and of the academic field. In particular, our focus is on normative and evaluative accounts relating to forms of university governance. We ... [more ▼]

This chapter observes and analyzes hegemonic narratives in and of the academic field. In particular, our focus is on normative and evaluative accounts relating to forms of university governance. We suggest centering on two overarching approaches to what is seen as legitimate in terms of governing the university. First, we trace the age-old Humboldtian perspective, representing especially professorial independence and self-governance. Second, we consider the newer managerial perspective, separating top-down university management decision-making separate from (or counter to) faculty influence. We find that, as the latter form is currently taking hold within European universities, scholarly remembrance of the former Humboldtian governance tradition has morphed into a nearly uncritical, hegemonic tale of a glorified past. In contrast, we suggest, the managerial perspective represents a powerful ante-narrative, a hegemonic story in-the-making. The morally laden, and somewhat fantastical, Humboldtian tale, being itself hegemonic, is unfit to serve as a critical counter-narrative vis-à-vis the managerial approach that has attained considerable authority. Thus, we argue that contemporary governance discourse is suspended between two poles: the Humboldtian perspective, favoring professorial power and authority relations, and the managerial perspective, subordinating faculty under market considerations and continuous evaluation. The dilemma arising from this “suspension” also renders the governance discourse into regions of impracticality and elitism. We argue that a counter-narrative fit to challenge the managerialist governance structures in practice is lacking, with elitism continuously reproduced in-between an ancient hegemonic narrative (Humboldtian) and equally hegemonic contemporary ante-narrative (managerialist). [less ▲]

Etude des croyances des enseignants à l’égard de l’engagement parental, étape indispensable à l’implémentation d’un dispositif pédagogique en mathématiques au préscolaire intégrant une composante familiale

in Moignard, Benjamin; Rubi, Stephanie (Eds.) L’école des dispositifs. Approches internationales autour des nouvelles problématiques scolaires (in press)

Les contours des identités chez Anne-Lise Grobéty : pour un dépassement des frontières

in Bel, Jacqueline; Kuhnle, Till R (Eds.) Territoires et/ou frontières (in press)

The Fundamental Right to Data Protection of Blockchain Users seen through the Applicability of the GDPR

in Borges, Georg; Sorge, Christoph (Eds.) IT Law and Legal Informatics (in press)

The aim of this chapter is to highlight the different issues that one faces when trying to ensure the fundamental right to data protection of blockchain users. The provisions of the General Data ... [more ▼]

The aim of this chapter is to highlight the different issues that one faces when trying to ensure the fundamental right to data protection of blockchain users. The provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation are used as an example of the difficulties. Here, two principal issues are addressed: issues regarding the addressees of the General Data Protection Regulation's provisions and issues regarding the qualification and treatment of data available on permissionless and permissioned blockchains. Finally, this article highlights the consequences that these uncertainties may have on the protection of users’ fundamental rights and the necessity to ensure legal certainty through additional guidance from the European legislator or upcoming case-law. [less ▲]

Europäisches Kapitalmarktrecht: Intermediärsrecht (§ 13)

in Enzyklopädie des Europarechts, Europäisches Privat- und Unternehmensrecht, Band 6 (in press)

Der Reaktor als grenzüberschreitende Risikozone in der Großregion. Ökologische, interkulturelle und didaktische Herausforderungen der Kernenergie

in Thiltges, Sébastian; Solte-Gresser, Christiane (Eds.) Kulturökologie und ökologische Kulturen in der Großregion (in press)

Rewriting

in Dürbeck, Gabriele; Dunker, Axel; Göttsche, Dirk (Eds.) Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur (in press)

Using cross-border mobility in vocational education and training in the Greater Region SaarLorLux region

in Cairns, David (Ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility (in press)

High unemployment rates on one side of a border and training opportunities on the other, the lack of training programmes for specialised jobs on the one side of the border and well defined vocational ... [more ▼]

High unemployment rates on one side of a border and training opportunities on the other, the lack of training programmes for specialised jobs on the one side of the border and well defined vocational programmes on the other side: cross-border vocational education and training (VET) is an increasingly used tool to accommodate the differing needs inside the European Union in recent years. This paper will present, explain and analyse the diverse approaches and concepts of tailor-made as well as more standardized cross-border VET programmes in the Greater Region SaarLorLux (DE, FR, LUX, BE) and explain the different mobility types (from short-time exchange programmes, to internships as well as a formalised division of mobility between days of apprenticeship in one country and days of practical training in another country). This cross-border region is the largest transboundary commuting area and therefore the largest transboundary labour market in the EU. [less ▲]

Familiale Generationsbeziehungen (international)

in Ecarius, Jutta; Schierbaum, Anja (Eds.) Handbuch Familie: Bildung, Erziehung und sozialpädagogische Arbeitsfelder (in press)

Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit intergenerationalen Familienbeziehungen im Kulturvergleich. Nach einer Einführung in grundlegende theoretische Modelle und Forschungstraditionen werden im ... [more ▼]

Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit intergenerationalen Familienbeziehungen im Kulturvergleich. Nach einer Einführung in grundlegende theoretische Modelle und Forschungstraditionen werden im zweiten Teil Forschungsprojekte und -ergebnisse zur Ausgestaltung von Generationsbeziehungen in verschiedenen kulturellen Kontexten und im Zusammenhang mit Migration aufgezeigt sowie die Bedeutung von gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen für die Ausgestaltung von familiären Generationsbeziehungen dargelegt. [less ▲]

Reconceptualizing the Multilingual Child: Curriculum Construction in Luxembourg

in Roberts, Philip; Brennan, Marie; Green, Bill (Eds.) Curriculum Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World (in press)

Revision des kulturellen Gedächtnisses im Spannungsfeld multipler Nah- und Fernfremde

in Cepl-Kaufmann, Gertrude; Grande, Jasmin; Borzyszkowska, Miłosława (Eds.) et al Gedächtnistopographien im Grenzraum. Pomorze und Rheinland als trilaterale Kulturräume - Exemplarisch und im Vergleich. (in press)

Le comté/duché de Luxembourg et la guerre de Cent Ans

in Moeglin, Jean-Marie (Ed.) Dictionnaire Guerre de Cent Ans (in press)

Humanities als Rekonstrukteure des Rechts

in the Ends of the Humanities (in press)

Neuer Realismus und Neue Rechte

in Zhu; Zhao; Szurawitzki (Eds.) .): Akten des XIII. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Shanghai 2015. Germanistik zwischen Tradition und Innovation (in press)

The Unblinking Eye: Labour Sciences and the Mechanical Registration of the Human Body

in Smeyers, Paul; Depaepe, Marc (Eds.) (Re)Presentation, Dissemination and Reception: Purposes, Processes and Practices of Educational Research (in press)

Frontières et identités spatiales dans / de la Grande Région SaarLorLux. Approches analytiques et résultats empiriques

in Hamez, Grégory (Ed.) Réalités, perceptions et représentations des frontières de l'Union Européenne (in press)

Cette contribution a pour objet d'analyser l'importance des frontières nationales pour les identités spatiales dans des régions transfrontalières. À cet effet, elle élaborera un modèle d'analyse ... [more ▼]

Cette contribution a pour objet d'analyser l'importance des frontières nationales pour les identités spatiales dans des régions transfrontalières. À cet effet, elle élaborera un modèle d'analyse pluridimensionnel permettant d'étudier les identités et, à l'exemple de la Grande Région SaarLorLux, posera la question de savoir comment les habitants se représentent l'espace et organisent leurs pratiques de vie quotidienne sur le plan spatial. Par ailleurs, l'analyse révèlera des projections spatiales dans le discours politique et montrera dans quelle mesure celles-ci constituent une base de processus identitaires. La contribution démontre que, malgré des imbrications transfrontalières, les frontières nationales jouent un rôle important dans les processus de projection et d'appropriation identitaires des habitants de la Grande Région SaarLorLux, mais pas nécessairement en tant que catégories rigides. [less ▲]

Framing EU Executive Discretion in EU Law

in Mendes, Joana (Ed.) EU Executive Discretion and the Limits of Law (in press)

Assessment of problem solving

in Griffin, P.; McGaw, B.; Care, E. (Eds.) Assessment and teaching of 21st century skills (in press)

Luxembourgish

in Maitz, Péter; Boas, Hans C.; Deumert, Ana (Eds.) et al Varieties of German Worldwide (in press)

Verspätete Verbürgerlichung : Politische Partizipation Luxemburger Juden im 19. Jh. im europäischen Vergleich

in Veröffentlichung der Beiträge zur Konferenz « Nationenbildung und Demokratie », 9-11 juin 2011 (in press)

Lauenstein im Bild. Über das Edieren von Geschichte und Erinnerung in historischen Alben

in Werner, Meike (Ed.) Ein Gipfel für Morgen. Kontroversen 1917/18 um die Neuordnung Deutschlands auf Burg Lauenstein (in press)

Tracing the iconization of the salty article of Balearic vernaculars in Facebook communities [provisional title]

in Juffermans, Kasper; Weth, Constanze (Eds.) The tyranny of writing: Ideologies of the written word (in press)

Patterns of Place: An Integrated Approach for the Design and Evaluation of Real and Virtual Environments

in Lombard, Matthew; Freeman, Jonathon; Ijesslsteijn, Wijnand (Eds.) et al Immersed in Media: Presence Theory, Measurement and Technology (in press)

This chapter describes an approach to the development of virtual representations of real places. The work was funded under the European Union’s €20m Future and Emerging Technologies theme of the 5th ... [more ▼]

This chapter describes an approach to the development of virtual representations of real places. The work was funded under the European Union’s €20m Future and Emerging Technologies theme of the 5th Framework Programme, “Presence”, 2002 - 2005. The aim of the project, called BENOGO, was to develop a novel technology based on real-time image-based rendering (IBR) for representing places in virtual environments. The specific focus of the work presented here concerned how to capture the essential features of real places, and how to represent that knowledge, so that the team developing the IBR-based virtual environments could produce an environment that was as realistic as possible. This involved the development and evaluation of a number of virtual environments and the evolution of two complementary techniques; the Place Probe and Patterns of place. [less ▲]

L’autobiographie dans la littérature de l’immigration italienne du Luxembourg et de la Grande Région

in Cicotti, Claudio (Ed.) La volonté d s'écrire (in press)

Ökologie und Poetologie der Versandung: Raoul Schrotts Novelle Die Wüste Lop Nor als literarische Wüstenfiguration der Gegenwart.

in Dürbeck, Gabriele; Zschachlitz, Ralf (Eds.) Ökologie und Umweltwandel in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. (in press)

Aura

in Cohen, Esther (Ed.) Walter Benjamin. Glosario de términos y conceptos (in press)

Sword, Shield and Cloud: Toward a European System of Public-Private Orders for Electronic Evidence in Criminal Matters?

in Mitsilegas, Valsamis; Vavoula, Niovi (Eds.) Surveillance and Privacy in the Digital Age: European, Transatlantic and Global Perspectives (in press)

Arriving at Justice by a Process of Elimination: Hans Kelsen and Leo Strauss

in Telman, Jeremy (Ed.) Hans Kelsen in America : The Anxieties of Non-Influence (in press)

The aim of this paper is to compare two authors: Hans Kelsen and Leo Strauss. More specifically, it will compare Kelsen’s “What is Justice?”—his Farewell Lecture given at Berkeley in 1952—and Leo ... [more ▼]

The aim of this paper is to compare two authors: Hans Kelsen and Leo Strauss. More specifically, it will compare Kelsen’s “What is Justice?”—his Farewell Lecture given at Berkeley in 1952—and Leo Strauss’s Natural Right and History—one of the main works on political philosophy published in twentieth century America. Both are key texts dealing with the same subject, justice. Although the two texts were written around the same time by authors who shared a similar history (they both immigrated to the United States to escape Nazism), they seem to defend radically opposed points of view. However, despite and beyond their otherwise real differences, the two texts articulate the same important idea: if one wants to think about political issues, one has to address the question of justice. This chapter will attempt to illustrate through a comparison of these two texts the importance of addressing the question of justice, especially in our modern democracies. [less ▲]

Cognitive processes underlying impaired decision-making in gambling disorder.

in Zaleskiewicz, Thomas (Ed.) Psychological Perspectives on Financial Decision Making. (in press)

Ökologie, Umwelt.

in Vogl, Joseph; Wolf, Burkhardt (Eds.) Handbuch Literatur und Ökonomie. (in press)

Zwischen Konformität und Handlungsmacht: Ein Blick auf die Verarbeitungspraxis von Qualitätsvorgaben in der Offenen Kinder- und Jugendarbeit

in Deinet, Ulrich; Sturzenhecker, Benedikt (Eds.) Handbuch Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit (in press)

The EU Administrative Institutions, Their Law and Legal Scholarship

in Cane, Peter; Hoffman, Herwig; Lindseth, Peter (Eds.) Oxford Handbook on Comparative Administrative Law (in press)

The chapter approaches the EU administrative institutions as catalysts of the development of administrative law of the European Union. As a chapter of the Oxford Handbook on Comparative Administrative Law ... [more ▼]

The chapter approaches the EU administrative institutions as catalysts of the development of administrative law of the European Union. As a chapter of the Oxford Handbook on Comparative Administrative Law, it explains the main traits of those institutions, how legal scholarship has portrayed them and how it has addressed the core aspects of their legal regimes. Furthermore, it traces the emergence and current state of EU administrative law, characterising the different roles comparative administrative law has had at different stages. It highlights the initial dissonance between the specificities of the EU administrative institutions and the state-matrix of general principles that were developed on the basis of functional comparison; the role of legal scholarship in shaping EU administrative law, in its efforts to give effect to an “utopia” (Chiti, 2007) of an integrated administration constitutionally framed by general principles and fundamental rights; the limits of resorting to comparative administrative law in the context of EU integration and, briefly, the crossroads at which EU administrative law currently stands. [less ▲]