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Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

The Swiss Constitution and a weak-form unconstitutional amendment doctrine?

Dixon, Rosalind ; Uhlmann, Felix

In: International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2018, vol. 16, no. 1, p. 54-74

Université de Fribourg

Cities as democratic representatives in international law-making

Besson, Samantha ; Martí, José Luis

In: Research handbook on international law and cities, 2021, p. 341-353

Université de Fribourg

The Holders of Human Rights : The Bright Side of Human Rights?

Besson, Samantha

In: The Oxford Handbook of Global Justice, 2020, p. 99-121

International human rights law and practice reveal an ambivalent approach to the personal scope of human rights: human rights are often less equal or general than they claim and are claimed to be. The inequalities of human rights are of two kinds: some vulnerable individuals are also protected by special rights, thus drawing an internal boundary within the scope of human rights-holders, while...

Université de Fribourg

Sovereign States and their International Institutional Order : Carrying Forward Dworkin's Work on the Political Legitimacy of International Law

Besson, Samantha

In: Jus Cogens: a critical journal of philosophy of law and politics (online), 2020, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 1-28

International law’s legitimacy has come under serious attack lately, including, and maybe even more so, in regimes considered democratic. Reading Dworkin’s New Philosophy for International Law in the current context is a timely reminder of the centrality of the political legitimacy of international law. Interestingly, indeed, his account does not succumb to the (however progressive)...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Gender-based price discrimination in the annuity market : evidence from Chile

Bello, Piera

This paper studies gender-based price discrimination in the annuity market. The dataset consists of transaction-level data on the universe of individuals accessing the Chilean annuity market in the 2004-2017 period. It exploits the fact that, in Chile, individuals can access the annuity market through three different channels: an independent financial advisor, a sales agent at a company, or...