Beyond individuals: a more effective structure for the Commission. EPC Commentary, 9 September 2014

In recent days, Brussels has been excited by the circulation of diagrams showing a re-organisation and allocation of posts in the new European Commission, reputedly coming from somewhere within Jean-Claude Juncker’s team. Many have pointed out that some of the appointments seem unlikely, also noting that the diagram seems to miss the Enterprise and Single Market portfolios, where it is difficult to envisage their complete merger into other portfolios, given their size and importance. In addition, not only is the source of the document unknown, it could have been leaked for a specific purpose, for example to test out the reactions in some Member States or to push individual EU countries into action, for example by appointing a woman to get a better portfolio.

Judicial Selection, Lay Participation, and Judicial Culture in the Czech Republic: A Study in a Central European (Non)Transformation. College of Europe Research Paper in Law 03/2014

Introduction. The idea that “merit” should be the guiding principle of judicial selections is a universal principle, unlikely to be contested in whatever legal system. What differs considerably across legal cultures, however, is the way in which “merit” is defined. For deeper cultural and historical reasons, the current definition of “merit” in the process of judicial selections in the Czech Republic, at least in the way it is implemented in the institutional settings, is an odd mongrel. The old technocratic Austrian judicial heritage has in some aspects merged with, in others was altered or destroyed, by the Communist past. After 1989, some aspects of the judicial organisation were amended, with the most problematic elements removed. Furthermore, several old as well as new provisions relating to the judiciary were struck down by the Constitutional Court. However, apart from these rather haphazard interventions, there has been neither a sustained discussion as to how a new judicial architecture and system of judicial appointments ought to look like nor much of broader, conceptual reform in this regard. Thus, some twenty five years after the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the guiding principles for judicial selection and appointments are still a debate to be had.

Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York.

Lists of members in each volume; some of these are merely partial lists, members in attendance at the annual meetings, etc.

The Weekly notes

Editor: 1895-1935, Sir Frederick Pollock, bart

The physician capacity utilization surveys : a report on the telephone resurvey /

Prepared under contract no. HRA-231-75-0023 from Health Resources Administration

A letter to the Dilettanti Society, respecting the obtention of certain matters essentially necessary for the improvement of public taste, and for accomplishing the original views of the Royal Academy of Great-Britain /

Signatures: B⁸(±B1) C-T⁸ U².

Ḥabīb-i siyar jild al-thānī, [1026, i.e. 1617].

This is the second of three volumes which comprise Khvandemīr's well known and important general history, completed in 929/1523, which spans the creation of the world up to the death of Shah Ismāʻīl Safavī I. The work includes particularly detailed information about Herat under Sultan Husayn Bayqara, the last Timurid ruler in Herat, as well as Shah Ismāʻīl and Bābur's life. This work has been published in both Persian and English editions.

Supporting the arts : an international comparative study, Canada, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, Netherlands, Sweden, United States /

Item 831-B-2

Revue de géologie et des sciences connexes. Review of geology and the connected sciences. Rassegna di geologia e delle scienze affini. Rundschau für Geologie und verwandte Wissenschaften.

Title varies slightly.

King and church; the rise and fall of the Patronato Real.

Includes the texts of the original bulls, decrees, and instructions that are basic to a study of the patronage.

Report from the Select Committee on the affairs of the East India company.

Includes first-fifth reports and appendices.

The Harvey lectures.

Includes list of members of the Harvey Society.

Musées et monuments de France : revue mensuelle d'art ancien et moderne.

Mode of access: Internet.

Picture buying ...

"Sketch suggesting the life and character of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens": p. 79-86.

Syria.

Editors: 1920-34, E. Pottier, R. Dussaud (with G. Migeon, 1920-30); 1934- R. Dussaud.