The Necessity of Conceivability (2022)
Journal Article
Allen, S., & Cumpa, J. (2022). The Necessity of Conceivability. Synthese, 200(2), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03534-z

In his conceivability argument, Chalmers assumes that all properties have their causal powers contingently and causal laws are also contingent. We argue this claim conflicts with how conceivability itself must work for the conceivability argument to... Read More about The Necessity of Conceivability.

To Everything There is a Season: Instrumentalising Article 10 TEU to Exclude Undemocratic Member State Representatives from the European Council and the Council (2022)
Journal Article
Cotter, J. (2022). To Everything There is a Season: Instrumentalising Article 10 TEU to Exclude Undemocratic Member State Representatives from the European Council and the Council. European Law Review, 47(1), 69-84. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4032080

This paper presents the argument that art. 10 TEU could be utilised to confront the problem of undemocratic Member State representatives in the European Council and the Council. First, it is contended that art. 10(2) TEU, read with the principle of r... Read More about To Everything There is a Season: Instrumentalising Article 10 TEU to Exclude Undemocratic Member State Representatives from the European Council and the Council.

Privacy International and Quadrature du Net: One Step Forward Two Steps Back in the Data Retention Saga? (2022)
Journal Article
(2022). Privacy International and Quadrature du Net: One Step Forward Two Steps Back in the Data Retention Saga?. European Public Law, 123-154. https://doi.org/10.54648/euro2022007

The present contribution aims to critically reflect on the future direction of data retention at the EU and the national levels by discussing the lessons arising from two seminal Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) decisions: Privacy International and... Read More about Privacy International and Quadrature du Net: One Step Forward Two Steps Back in the Data Retention Saga?.

A commitment to marginalized children in the European Union: The hope and challenges of the EU Child Guarantee (2021)
Journal Article
Rigby, M. J. (2022). A commitment to marginalized children in the European Union: The hope and challenges of the EU Child Guarantee. Child: Care, Health and Development, 48(1), 170-174. https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12907

While children in general are usually seen as a societal priority, many children are disadvantaged by marginalization, with adverse effects on health and development. Following feasibility studies, the European Commission has now adopted a formal Chi... Read More about A commitment to marginalized children in the European Union: The hope and challenges of the EU Child Guarantee.

European Union Child Guarantee-challenges raised by the welcome promise of free healthcare for marginalized children. (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). European Union Child Guarantee-challenges raised by the welcome promise of free healthcare for marginalized children. European Journal of Public Health, 943-950. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab062

BACKGROUND: Children are dependent on the way in which society provides healthcare, with primary and preventive care being initial components. They also have a generally acclaimed right to health, and to lack of impediment to access to healthcare. In... Read More about European Union Child Guarantee-challenges raised by the welcome promise of free healthcare for marginalized children..

The Unexpected Consequences of the EU Right to Be Forgotten: Internet Search Engines As Fundamental Rights Adjudicators (2021)
Book Chapter
(2021). The Unexpected Consequences of the EU Right to Be Forgotten: Internet Search Engines As Fundamental Rights Adjudicators. In Personal Data Protection and Legal Developments in the European Union (1746 - 1768). https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8954-0.ch084

<jats:p>The right to be forgotten as established in the CJEU's decision in Google Spain is the first online data privacy right recognized in the EU legal order. This contribution explores two currently underdeveloped in the literature aspects of the... Read More about The Unexpected Consequences of the EU Right to Be Forgotten: Internet Search Engines As Fundamental Rights Adjudicators.

The Demands of Substantive Decolonisation: Brexit and Ireland as a Matter of Justice (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). The Demands of Substantive Decolonisation: Brexit and Ireland as a Matter of Justice. Irish Political Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2021.1877899

Although the impact Brexit might have on Ireland has generated a vast array of critical analyses, insufficient attention has been paid to this project as a question of justice or a matter of potential injustice. It is suggested here that the relative... Read More about The Demands of Substantive Decolonisation: Brexit and Ireland as a Matter of Justice.

Just Say No! Appeals Against Orders for a Preliminary Reference (2020)
Journal Article
Cotter, J. (2020). Just Say No! Appeals Against Orders for a Preliminary Reference. European Public Law, 26(3), 615-642. https://doi.org/10.54648/euro2020058

Can an order for a preliminary reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court), made by a lower instance national court, be subject to an appeal to a higher instance national court? To date, the Court has not been sufficiently cle... Read More about Just Say No! Appeals Against Orders for a Preliminary Reference.

The Future of EU Data Privacy Law: Towards a More Egalitarian Data Privacy (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). The Future of EU Data Privacy Law: Towards a More Egalitarian Data Privacy

The article addresses the future of European Union (EU) data privacy law and argues for a shift of paradigm, calling for a less technology-driven and more human-centric and societally focused approach. It discusses two case studies — poor people’s da... Read More about The Future of EU Data Privacy Law: Towards a More Egalitarian Data Privacy.

Complexities of Polish migrant's citizenship attributions in the context of Brexit and the Scottish Independence Referendums (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Complexities of Polish migrant's citizenship attributions in the context of Brexit and the Scottish Independence Referendums. Scottish Affairs, 386 - 402. https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2020.0330

This article focuses on the experiences of Scotland's largest foreign-born minority group, namely Poles, in the run-up to the Scottish Independence Referendum in 2014 and subsequently the UK's EU Referendum. Through exploring Polish migrant residents... Read More about Complexities of Polish migrant's citizenship attributions in the context of Brexit and the Scottish Independence Referendums.

The United Kingdom in the European Community: The diplomacy of the UK government towards the Single European Act, 1984-5 (2020)
Thesis
Bienek, C. J. (2020). The United Kingdom in the European Community: The diplomacy of the UK government towards the Single European Act, 1984-5. (Thesis). Keele University

This dissertation examines the policy making of the United Kingdom towards the Single European Act (SEA) from June 1984 to December 1985. The SEA codified the practice of foreign policy coordination and began a process of liberalising the Single Mark... Read More about The United Kingdom in the European Community: The diplomacy of the UK government towards the Single European Act, 1984-5.

Drivers of political parties’ climate policy preferences: lessons from Denmark and Ireland (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Drivers of political parties’ climate policy preferences: lessons from Denmark and Ireland. Environmental Politics, 1017-1038. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2019.1625157

Political parties are important actors in domestic climate politics. What drives variation in parties’ climate policy preferences? To contribute to a growing literature on the party politics of climate change, we focus on the roles of public opinion,... Read More about Drivers of political parties’ climate policy preferences: lessons from Denmark and Ireland.

Becoming Montenegrin: biopower, police reform and human rights (2019)
Journal Article
Ryan. (2019). Becoming Montenegrin: biopower, police reform and human rights. The International Journal of Human Rights, 23(4), 476-492. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2016.1161211

The paper forms a Foucauldian analysis of police reforms in Montenegro. Drawing on interviews with police officers at all ranks in 2004, undertaken as reform was commencing, and on interviews undertaken in 2010, after Montenegro's independence, the p... Read More about Becoming Montenegrin: biopower, police reform and human rights.

Standing Acts: The Political Aesthetics of Defiant Resistance (2019)
Journal Article
Ryan. (2019). Standing Acts: The Political Aesthetics of Defiant Resistance. International Political Sociology, 13(2), 111-127. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olz003

We most commonly encounter the word defiance when used as an adverb to classify a peculiarly courageous or risky act of resistance. However, the use of the word defiance in this way is a departure from the historical meaning of the word. Moreover, it... Read More about Standing Acts: The Political Aesthetics of Defiant Resistance.

Communist Party of Turkey: An Instrument of 'Soviet Eastern Policy'? (2019)
Book Chapter
Gokay. (2019). Communist Party of Turkey: An Instrument of 'Soviet Eastern Policy'?. In Communist Parties in the Middle East: A Century of History (60-73). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367134464-3

The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism (2019)
Book
Gokay. (2019). The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism

This book sets out a concrete analytical and empirical framework to understand the Euro-zone crisis and the deep disintegrative tendencies of Euro-Atlantic neo-imperialism. It explores how the authoritarianism and austerity led from above in the tran... Read More about The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism.

The European Commission and Education Policy (2018)
Book
(2018). The European Commission and Education Policy

With a focus on the creation of an EU level for Education Policy after the establishment of the Lisbon Agenda, this book identifies the domains of Education Policy which have been Europeanised and how the interactions between supranational and nation... Read More about The European Commission and Education Policy.

What to do about inequality? Public opinion support for the European Union and further European integration in the Republic of Ireland (2018)
Journal Article
Simpson. (2018). What to do about inequality? Public opinion support for the European Union and further European integration in the Republic of Ireland. Irish Political Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2018.1499620

This paper investigates individual’s perceptions of inequality and the impact this has on mass public opinion support for the European Union (EU) in the Republic of Ireland. This question is posed in the context of the onset of the economic and finan... Read More about What to do about inequality? Public opinion support for the European Union and further European integration in the Republic of Ireland.

Subnational government and transnational networking: the rationalist logic of local level Europeanization (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Subnational government and transnational networking: the rationalist logic of local level Europeanization. Journal of Common Market Studies, 1263-1283. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12740

The involvement of subnational actors in EU politics has become an increasingly recognized facet of European integration. However, this highlights an interesting puzzle: subnational authorities in unitary and centralized polities usually lack formal... Read More about Subnational government and transnational networking: the rationalist logic of local level Europeanization.

Futures made present: architecture, monument, and the battle for the 'third way' in Fascist Italy (2018)
Journal Article
Kallis. (2018). Futures made present: architecture, monument, and the battle for the 'third way' in Fascist Italy. Fascism, 45-79. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-00701004

During the late 1920s and 1930s, a group of Italian modernist architects, known as 'rationalists', launched an ambitious bid for convincing Mussolini that their brand of architectural modernism was best suited to become the official art of the Fascis... Read More about Futures made present: architecture, monument, and the battle for the 'third way' in Fascist Italy.