General Principles of EU Law: The Ghost in the Platonic Heaven in Need of Conceptual Clarification. Pittsburgh Papers on the European Union Vol. 2, 2013

General principles are en vogue in EU law – and in need of conceptual clarification. A closer look at several concepts of principle in legal philosophy and legal theory sheds light upon the concept of general principles in EU law. A distinction between an aprioristic model of principle and a model of principle informed by legal positivism may contribute to clarifying the genesis of a (general) principle in EU law, as well as its nature and functions. This paper demonstrates that an evolution has taken place from a reliance on seemingly natural law inspired reflections of general principles via the desperate search to ground general principles in various kinds of sources based on a more or less sound methodology towards an increasing reliance on strictly positivistic approaches. Against this backdrop, general principles are likely to lose significance where there are other norms while retaining an important yet uncontrollable role where the traditional canon of sources is silent.

Frontex and the respect of fundamental rights: from better protection to full responsibility. EPC Policy Brief, 3 June 2014

The European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (Frontex) was created to improve border management cooperation between Member States. Seen from its inception as a security-oriented body, tools and rules have been gradually developed to enhance the human rights dimension and protection regarding Frontex activities. However, this step has not been accompanied with the explicit recognition of Frontex’s legal responsibility regarding violations of human rights occurring during joint operations it coordinates. Despite Frontex position rejecting such a responsibility, it is no longer clear whether this position can be maintained, as Yves Pascouau and Pascal Schumacher demonstrate in this Policy Brief.

The Politics of Retrospective Justice in Germany & the Czech Republic. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 05.4, 1994

Ongoing German and Czech efforts to confront legacies of injustice in their recent pasts provides opportunity to examine policies of retrospective justice adopted from where there is no threat of old elites with residual power. Instead of evoking existing explanations of these measures that concentrate on normative issues, the role of former dissidents, or mode of transition, this account focuses on the importance of the character and structure of the political representation in post-Communist regimes in general, and in the German and Czech successor regimes in particular.

Amendments to articles 2 and 36, Uniform Code of Military Justice : hearings before the Military Personnel Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, June 11 and 12, 1979.

Mode of access: Internet.

A rudimentary treatise on the manufacture of bricks and tiles, containing an outline of the principles of brickmaking.

Preservation photocopy.

Interim report submitted to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and of the House of Representatives and to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the Departments pursuant to the Uniform code of military justice, for the period May 31, 1951 to March 1, 1952.

Mode of access: Internet.

The principles of Gothic ecclesiastical architecture : elucidated by question and answer /

Pages 1-16 at end of vol. are publisher's advertisements.

Principles of radioisotope methodology /

Includes bibliography.

Principles of radioisotope methodology /

Mode of access: Internet.

Principles of cost estimates in unemployment insurance /

Photocopy. -- 24 cm.

Principles of plasma dynamics.

"These notes are the result of the author's lectures [sic] on plasma physics in the spring term of 1961 at the University of Miami."

The scientific class-book; or, A familiar introduction to the principles of physical science ... on the basis of J.M. Moffat.

Mode of access: Internet.