While a robust body of scholarship considers the regulatory dimensions of patent and copyright, there remains a puzzling absence of writing about copyright’s administrative law. This Article remedies this lacuna in the literature. It begins by tracing the history of regulatory copyright, which...

The soft law is placed on a scale between freedom and control, autonomy, and hard law. At first sight, it falls short of building elements known in the legal principles of law, like transparency, certainty, and predictability, but on the other hand, it is needed to address areas where complexity...

This book chapter explores how common law (state or federal) tort law evolves to fill regulatory voids. Particularly in areas that pose emerging, and incompletely understood, health and safety risks, common law tort liability holds out the potential for a dynamic regulatory response, one that...

Despite the important role that courts play to supervise the legality of regulatory agencies' actions, only few comparative studies analyze the contents of judicial appeals against regulatory decisions within European countries. This paper builds on the comparative administrative law scholarship...

In this statement, the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation (the “Committee”) reaffirms its long-standing position that the Administrative Procedure Act (the “APA”) fully applies to supervisory and regulatory actions by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board (the “Fed”). In particular, we...

Across areas of law administrative agencies employ four basic policymaking strategies: rulemaking, adjudication, advance ruling and licensing. How should administrative agencies choose among these policymaking strategies? I develop a model which captures the idea that rules are inherently...

Einführung in das E-Government -- Recht und Politik – E-Government im politisch-administrativen System -- Förderung von E-Government und Digitalisierung -- E-Government auf unterschiedlichen administrativen Ebenen -- Management von E-Government -- Rahmenbedingungen und Sicherheit von...

Einführung in das E-Government -- Recht und Politik – E-Government im politisch-administrativen System -- E-Government auf unterschiedlichen administrativen Ebenen -- Management von E-Government -- Rahmenbedingungen und Sicherheit von E-Government -- Aktuelle und innovative Themen beim...

Alle regioni e agli enti locali fa capo circa metà degli appalti di lavori pubblici aggiudicati. Il lavoro, basato sull'analisi della normativa adottata in materia nel periodo 2000-2010 da tutte le regioni italiane e da un campione di province e comuni, mostra l'elevata pervasività della...

Not too long ago, an academic symposium on Taking Administrative Law to Tax would have been just that -- academic. For decades, the tax law sat comfortably isolated from administrative law doctrines that governed other areas of law. Courts frequently applied tax-specific deference standards to...

In the present study the regulation of the carrier of the civil servants is considered, especially the stability and continuity – essential elements at the European Union level. Unfortunately, in the Romanian legislation, as well as in the institutional case law, it remains a purely...