Published in International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION
The aim of the present article is to analyse resilience within the European Union, in the present geopolitical context. The article shall approach the term ‘resilience‘ both in a conceptual and practical manner, focusing on its very essence in order to be able to assess its presence and manifestation in EU foreign policy. Despite the term gaining t...
The purpose of this project is to analyze the different types of contractual modifications in a public contract, on the basis of a fundamental starting point: the prerogatives of the Public Administration. The modifications foreseen and not foreseen in the specifications, as well as the importance of their subsequent formalization and publication, ...
The aim of this paper is to analyze both the role that the royal prerogative plays in the Spanish democratic system and its particular legal regime. For that purpose, it will be detached from past or historical conceptions which before justified its existence, trying to find its present foundation in the framework of a democratic Constitution, whic...
In the wake of the US detention policy in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the practice of detention without trial has gained a degree of attention unparalleled in the history of common law tradition. Legal analyses of all kinds have ensued, and countless policy plans and guidelines have been created. Yet, despite the pedigree of detention withou...
Published in Polity
Republican thinkers normally have considered prerogative powers natural and necessary to a state’s survival. Yet Americans are suspicious of these powers, despite their frequent use. This paper draws a consequential distinction between the legitimacy of prerogative as such and the dangers of its use. Employing the Roman dictatorship to illustrate t...
Cet article livre un témoignage sur les premières semaines d’activité du Défenseur des droits. Il apporte une vue de l’intérieur concernant les grands chantiers qui attendent cette nouvelle institution, notamment sur le plan organisationnel, administratif et juridique, et évoque les défis politique et institutionnel que vont représenter les différe...
Published in Contemporary Political Theory
This article aims to challenge the idea of a ‘balance’ between security and liberty. Set against the background of ever greater demands for security, the article argues that the idea of balance is an essentially liberal myth, a myth that in turn masks the fact that liberalism's key category is not liberty, but security. This fact, it is suggested, ...
Published in Liverpool Law Review
This article traces the development of the use of the standard royal titles (prince/princess, Royal Highness) among members of British royal families other than Sovereigns from the medieval period to the present day. Usage is shown to have developed by evolution, and not to have been the subject of formal regulation, except in individual cases, unt...
Published in Polity
The modern obsession with executive charisma, especially in the context of the presidentialist variety of liberal democracy, is commonplace. This obsession derives from the oftentimes overlooked monarchical origins of the modern presidential executive. The presidential executive is outfitted with some of the awesome powers of European kingship, but...
