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• Access to justice, National/European law

  Administrative jurisdiction in France, by Bruno Bachini

  Published on

  27 Feb 2026

  5–7 minutes

  

  A jurisdictional dualism strongly anchored in the political and institutional history of the country The strict separation between the two orders of judicial and administrative jurisdiction in France is the legacy of a long historical tradition. This fundamental choice was reaffirmed during the French Revolution with the law of 16…

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• EU Law, Public-private partnership

  Public-private partnerships: the need for a cooperative spirit translated into legal terms, by Kris Wauters

  Published on

  20 Feb 2026

  8–11 minutes

  

  In a forthcoming book Partenariat public-privé : esprit de cooperation (Larcier, based on the PhD I defended at the University of Lausanne in 2025), I argue that public private partnerships (PPP) often produce negative results from a legal perspective. As the PPP phenomenon was introduced in the Anglo-Saxon world in…

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• EU Agencies Corner

  More Data, Less Openness? EU Scientific Agencies & the Transparency Implications of the Common Data Platform on Chemicals, by Matthias Hasler

  Published on

  13 Feb 2026

  10–14 minutes

  

  Introduction On 1 January 2026 the long-awaited ‘one substance, one assessment’ (‘OSOA’) legislative package entered into force. It consists of three legislative acts: Regulation (EU) 2025/2457 and Directive (EU) 2025/2456 regarding the relocation of tasks and improving cooperation among Union agencies in the area of chemicals (‘Relocation Measures’), and Regulation…

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• Agencies, Banking and finance

  Central Bank Independence in Global Perspective: What is so special about Central Banks

  Published on

  6 Feb 2026

  1–2 minutes

  On 20th January 2026, the Yale Comparative Administrative Law Listserv, the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, and the Review of EuropeanAdministrative Law Blog (REALaw) organised a online webinar on: Central Bank Independence in Global Perspective: What is so special about Central Banks. The immediate trigger for…

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• Agencies

  Agency Independence in Global Perspective: Law, Legitimacy & PoliticsAgencies and their independence – comparative

  Published on

  30 Jan 2026

  1–2 minutes

  On 29th December 2025, the Yale Comparative Administrative Law Listserv, the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, and the Review of EuropeanAdministrative Law Blog (REALaw) organised a online webinar on: Agency Independence in Global Perspective: Law, Legitimacy & Politics. The immediate trigger for the webinar was the…

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