In: Revue de droit suisse, 2003, vol. 1, p. 49-96
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In: No Foundations, 2007, vol. 3, p. 49-60
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In: International Journal of Children's Rights, 2005, vol. 13, no. 4, p. 433-461
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In: No Foundations, 2008, vol. 5, p. 50-70
As Kaarlo Tuori has often emphasized, one of the most important challenges the current legal reality in Europe raises for legal theory lies in the integration of autonomous legal orders applying directly to the same people, hence the impact of this European brand of legal pluralism on traditional legal theories. Indeed, as I have argued elsewhere, what is needed in European legal theory is...
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In: Human Rights Law Review, 2008, vol. 8, no. 4, p. 647-682
Gender discrimination is addressed differently under Article 14 ECHR and EU primary and secondary legal provisions. This is no wonder, since the role and scope of non- discrimination law in both legal orders are not the same, and since the scope of jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice applying those provisions differ drastically as well.While...
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In: Jusletter, 2008, p. 1-9
La Journée d’étude annuelle de la Section suisse de la Commission internationale de juristes sur le thème « Eine Menschenrechtsinstitution für die Schweiz ? Une institution des droits de l’homme pour la Suisse ? » a eu lieu le 3 avril 2008 à Berne. En première partie de journée, différents intervenants ont présenté la question du rôle et du mandat des institutions nationales...
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In: European Law Journal, 2004, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 257-281
This article examines whether and how the moral principle of legal coherence or integrity, which has recently been developed further as a response to disagreement in the national legal context, applies to European law. According to the European integrity principle, all national and European authorities should make sure their decisions cohere with the past decisions of other European and national...
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In: Jusletter, 2005, vol. 1, p. 39-71
Die Frage, ob jedem von uns ein von der Rechtsordnung geschützter Anspruch auf Kenntnis seiner eigenen biologischen Abstammung und damit auch seiner leiblichen Eltern zusteht, hat in der Schweiz zu einer der schwierigsten Gesellschaftsdebatten in den letzten zwanzig Jahren geführt. Nach einer langen Kontroverse wurde das Grundrecht auf Kenntnis der eigenen Abstammung schliesslich 2002...
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In: International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 2007, vol. 21, p. 137-159
The justifi cation of the child’s right to know her origins and the fundamental interests underlying it have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. This article goes one step further and assesses that right’s enforcement in practice together with its guiding principles. It starts by restating what the right consists in and what interests it protects according to different...
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In: European Law Journal, 2007, vol. 13, no. 5, p. 573-590
Object of a burgeoning literature in the past decade, the topic of Union citizenship has been sidelined in the past few years by the enlargement process and the constitutional debate in Europe. This apparent academic neglect does not reflect the legal, social and political reality, however, given the crucial development of EU citizenship rights in the legislation and case-law since 2002 and...
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