Comparison in Europe… Low-income energy consumers in France, Germany and the UK – Protection of vulnerable customers versus self-responsibility,By Prof. Dr. Peter Rott 25 Oct 202414 Nov 2024 Vulnerability of consumers can have many causes. One is poverty, or low income. One of the most tangible problems of low-income consumers is energy poverty, which the EU Commission has…
Comparative constitutional law… ‘Federally Trapped’? Comparing and Contrasting Local Government in Multi-Layered Systems, by Matteo Nicolini and Alice Valdesalici 2 Feb 2024 A problem of collocation ‘What is the place of local government in federal studies?’ This is the question that we asked ourselves when we decided to venture forth into the…
Bell John… Comment on the book “Contemporary French administrative law” by John Bell and François Lichère, by KP Sommermann 30 Jun 202327 Jun 2023 This is the sixth piece in a series of comments offered on John Bell’s and François Lichère’s book French Contemporary Administrative Law (CUP 2022 – available in open access by…
Comparison in Europe… Foreign Footprints in the Administrative Law of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, by Vuk Cucić 12 May 202324 May 2023 In the Interwar period, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a country erased from the map, perhaps now even forgotten, a country comprising several jurisdictions fraught with ethnic tensions and centrifugal forces…
Austria… Does climate change integration matter in subnational policies? Challenges and solutions in Italian and Austrian cases, by Federica Cittadino, Louisa Parks, Peter Bußjäger, and Francesca Rosignoli 2 May 20239 Nov 2025 Climate change governance is traditionally thought of and studied mainly as a matter for international cooperation. Central as they are for the advancement of climate-related commitments, international pledges need to…
Comparative Obligations… Unifying European Private Law in the Interwar Period: The Case of the Franco-Italian Draft Code of Obligations and the Polish Code of Obligations, by K. Kryla-Cudna 3 Feb 20232 Feb 2023 Introduction In a previous post, Aleksander Grebieniow and Jan Rudnicki discussed the process of unification of the Polish law of obligations in the interwar period. As explained by the authors,…
