The RIGHTS-TO-UNITE project is looking for contributions ultimately flowing into its initial theoretical concept paper, covering literature and primary legal sources in Sweden and Norway on the practical usage of EU derived rights in those countries, both through legalistic routes (judicial enforcement, support by special agencies) and informal mechanisms.
RIGHTS TO UNITE develops a new theory of European integration based on practical usage of rights with socio-legal comparison, aiming to discern empirically how natural persons in 8 smaller states in the EU and its neighbourhood use and perceive EU derived rights. This specific task is described in the research programme on page 12. It would be useful to also consider the table at page 9 and perhaps the graph at page 7.
The task builds on working paper one, and contributes initially to working paper two (not yet completed). It complements work by PhD researchers on Czechia, Georgia, Greece and North Macedonia and by PostDocs/PI on Ireland and Northern Ireland – so these are the 8 countries we cover. One of the project’s aims is to expand coverage of socio-legal research beyond large languages such as English, German and French also into the languages of our target countries.
There are two interrelated tasks here:
- First, we ask contract researchers to establish how legal and political science literature in your target country reacts to the principles of effects of EU law as developed by the ECJ (for Sweden), or whether the EEA Treaty linking Norway to the EU is interpreted in similar ways (for Norway). We look for summaries of reflections in academic literature, and if there is any key case law on this, for such key case law. We are also interested in the relevance of instruments which do not have direct effect (e.g. in the EU some directives, and recommendations, and beyond the EU most of the merely international law instruments. For this task there is a limited number of key words, and simple search strategies.
- Second, we ask to provide an analysis of the panoply of EU derived rights for subsections in the fields of economic / liberal, social and digital rights (see table at page 9 of the application, and updated version below). We ask researchers to engage in a key word search in the target languages, using peer reviewed academic journals, on-line data bases such as SSRN, Ingenta or Web of Science, the latter two being available from UCD library)
For more details on tasks, see the file below.
Closing date for this call is on 6 March 2025, 5 PM.
If you have any questions or need more information please feel free to contact us: rightstounite@ucd.ie