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Forskningsprojekter

 
Juridisk Institut har følgende aktuelle forskningsprojekter:
Consumer sentiment regarding privacy on user generated content (UGC) services in the digital economy  ( klik her for at læse mere om digital economy)
Towards a European Legal Method: Synthesis or Fragmentation (klik her for at læse mere om Towards a European Legal method)
Juridisk analyse af mænds og kvinders adgang til varer og tjenesteydelser ( Klik her for at læse mere om projektet)
Vækst og værdiskabelse via nye former for innovationssamarbejder og partnerskaber ( Klik her for at læse mere om vækst og værdiskabelse)
Ph.d.- projekter ( klik her for at læse mere om Ph.d.-projekter)
Afsluttede projekter ( Klik her for at læse mere om de afsluttede projekter)



Consumer sentiment regarding privacy on user generated content services in the digital economy


Abstract:
One of the key changes in societal trends and lifestyles witnessed over the past few years has been the move on-line of many consumers and the way they have become increasingly sophisticated in their media consumption habits. Have these recent changes to consumer and commercial practices developed in such a way that consumers are (in) voluntarily signing away their fundamental right to privacy?
This project (CONSENT) seeks to examine how consumer behaviour and commercial practices are changing the role of consent in the processing of personal data. While consumer consent is a fundamental value on which the European market economy is based, the way consumer consent is obtained is questionable in popular user-generative/user-generated (UGC) online services (including sites like MySpace, YouTube and Facebook), whose commercial success depends to a large extent on the disclosure by their users of substantial amounts of personal data. There is an urgent need to study and analyse the changes in consumption behaviour and consumer culture arising from the emergence of UGC online services and how contractual, commercial and technical practices and other factors affect consumer choice and attitudes toward personal privacy in the digital economy.
CONSENT's multidisciplinary team intends to carry out a status quo analysis of commercial practices, legal position and consumer attitudes, identifying criteria for fairness and best practices, and then create a toolkit for policy makers and corporate counsel which will enable them to address problem identified in the analysis. CONSENT will advance the knowledge base that underpins the formulation and implementation of policies and corporate procedures in the area of privacy and consumer protection with a view to informing policy-making in the European Union and to contribute to the development of European research communities in these areas.
CBS part:
Interoperability of services - An analysis of the existing legal framework (including in the area of competition and consumer protection law) in order to establish the extent to which service providers in participating member states are required to ensure the interoperability of service.
This task is carried out through the legal analysis of legislation, regulatory, self-regulatory and co-regulatory instruments and case law.
Participating research institutions:
  • University of Central Lancashire (coordinator)
  • Universita ta Malta
  • Copenhagen Business School
  • Universiteit Leiden
  • Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster
  • Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitaet Hannover
  • Universitatea Babes Bolyai
  • Asociatia Pentru Tehnologie si Internet
  • Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
  • Masarykova Univerzita
  • Queen's University Belfast
  • Uniwersytet Wroclawski
  • Universidad de Leon
  • Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
  • Laboratorio di Scienze della Cittadinanza
  • Universite Paris-Sud XI
  • Univerzita Komenskeho v Bratislave
  • Law and Internet Foundation
Visit the CONSENT website: http://consent.law.muni.cz

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Towards a European Legal Method: Synthesis or Fragmentation

 
The project examines the extent to which it is possible to identify a coherent legal method (doctrine of the sources of law and their interpretation) that may be applied when analysing EU law and the law of EU Member States within the scope of application of EU law. It looks at what characterises the sources of law and the interpretation methods that are actually used by European legal actors, especially judges and researchers, when analysing what is valid law. It examines the changes in the relative importance of various sources of law that occur in connection with the integration of EU law into national law.
The basic thoughts in the prevailing legal theories in Europe (legal positivism, natural law theories and the institutional theory of law) date back to the time before the EU's creation and were conceived with a view to either national law or public international law. The project examines whether they can also explain the characteristics of EU law that differ from national law and public international law, in particular the pluralistic and flexible approach in EU law to sources of law and interpretation, the combination of an 'internal' (narrow legal dogmatic) and a broader 'external' (economic, sociological, etc.) perspective on law, and the relationship between law and politics including the judiciary's role in majority democracies (Britain and the Nordic countries) and constitutional democracies (the rest of Europe and probably the EU as such.
As part of the project, research conferences will be arranged. The first took place 19 November 2010 with the theme European Legal Method, see www.cbs.dk/elm1 . A book from the project by Ulla Neergaard, Ruth Nielsen and Lynn Roseberry (eds.): European Legal Method - Paradoxes and Revitalisation, DJØF Publishing 2011 was published in April 2011, see http://www.djoef-forlag.dk/vare/8757423776.
The second conference within the project 'Towards a European Legal Method: Synthesis or Fragmentation' took place on 18 November 2011 with the theme European Legal Method(s) in a Multi-Layered Legal Order v. Multi-Level Governance . That conference resulted in the book Ulla Neergaard and Ruth Nielsen (eds.): European Legal Method – in a Multi-Level EU Legal Order, DJØF Publishing 2012 (forthcoming).
The third conference within the project 'Towards a European Legal Method: Synthesis or Fragmentation' will take place 23 November 2012 with the theme
European Legal Method – Towards a New European Legal Realism?
Research group
The project is a collective research project carried out from 2010-2012 by a research group which consists of:
Project description
 The project has received a grant of DKK 1.9 million from the Danish Social Science Research Council. The Research group behind the project did the Blurring Boundaries project 2007-2009.

Juridisk analyse af mænds og kvinders adgang til varer og tjenesteydelser

Formålet med projektet er at fastslå omfanget og rækkevidden af det i Danmark gældende forbud mod kønsdiskrimination ved adgang til varer og tjenesteydelser. Reglerne herom findes dels i regler vedtaget på EU- og folkeretligt niveau, dels i dansk lovgivning. På EU-niveau findes reglerne navnlig direktiv 113/2004/EF om ligebehandling af kvinder og mænd ved adgang til og levering af tjenesteydelser, i art. 21 i EU’s Charter om Grundlæggende Rettigheder, der har traktatrang, og i praksis fra EU-Domstolen. På folkeretligt niveau findes reglerne navnlig i art. 14 i Den europæiske Menneskerettighedskonvention og i CEDAW (FN’s Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination of Women). I Danmark findes de centrale bestemmelser om emnet i ligestillingsloven.
 
Projektet udarbejdes af professor Ruth Nielsen

Vækst og værdiskabelse via nye former for innovationssamarbejder og partnerskaber

En række nye innovative modeller for samarbejde mellem farmaceutiske virksomheder og universiteter udvikles i disse år i USA og en række europæiske lande. De nye samarbejdsmodeller skaber grundlaget for et tættere samarbejde på tværs af virksomheder og universiteter, med det mål at styrke innovationskraften. Intentionen er at skabe innovationsprocesser-der-giver-resultater baseret på udvikling af prækompetitive platforme via fælles co-lokaliserede samarbejder eller via samarbejde i forpligtende netværk. Såfremt de nye samarbejdsmodeller er eller bliver succesfulde, vil det skabe konkurrencefordele for de involverede virksomheder. Projektet vil analysere om udenlandske universitets-virksomhedsrelationer og samarbejdsmodeller giver en bedre mulighed for og incitament til innovation end nuværende danske modeller. På baggrund af analysen vil projektet udvikle nye og innovative modeller for samarbejde, som kan implementeres i en dansk kontekst. De nye innovative samarbejdsformer kræver endvidere udvikling af nye aftalekoncepter om deling af resultater mellem universiteter og virksomheder og dertil hørende incitamentsmodeller, som også udvikles i projektet.
 
Projektet er toårigt (2012-2013) og er delvist finansieret af Forsknings- og Innovationsstyrelsens Åbne Midler.
 
Projektdeltagere:
 
Copenhagen Business School, Juridisk Institut (Projektleder),
Christina D. Tvarnø, lektor, ph.d., Juridisk Institut, cdt.jur@cbs.dk 
 
Bioneer, Lars. H Pedersen, Forskningschef,lap@bioneer.dk
Medicon Valley Alliance, Stig Jørgsensen, CEO stig.jorgensen@mva.org
 
H. Lundbeck A/S, Peter Høngaard Andersen, VP of Research, phqa@lundbeck.com
 
Tectra, Jens Kindtler, Enhedschef, jwk@regionh.dk
 
Københavns Universitet, Det Farmaceutiske Fakultet, Sven Frøkær, Dekan, sf@farma.ku.dk
 
Novo Nordisk A/S, Kristian Tage Hansen, Director, Strategy and Sourcing, krth@novonordisk.com

Ph.D.-projekter

 
Inger Høedt-Rasmussen is working on the research project: Developing Identity within the Legal Profession
The work is based on the paradigm of constructivism and will include narrative theories. Narrative theories seem essential in search and understanding of the lawyer’s identity and the perception of identity.
There is a relation between the perception of law as a moral idea and the constructed identity both of the profession and of the individual lawyer. Development and changes in the philosophy of law make changes in the curriculum necessary. It is a hypothesis that the development from a positivistic perception of law towards a reflective perception leads to requirements for new competences within the profession. 
The profession is formed and protected in a format that might limit development and innovation. Ruling the profession both nationally and internationally risk to exclude adaptations of new or different competences necessary to deal with challenges and complexities in a globalizing world. Which impact have these facts for the identity of the lawyer acting internationally and cross-cultural?
The profession is in transition. The transition will affect the lawyers, who are in search for a value based individual identity, which includes happiness, accountability, democratic responsibility and satisfaction both in personal and in legal life. A holistic practice based on mindfulness might be the moderation of this relation leading to a revitalization of the legal profession.
Gediminas Almantas is working on the research project: Ethics and morality in international business negotiation
 The main aim of the research project is to analyze and explore the understanding, role and value of ethics and morality in international business negotiation. Hypothetically, the observance of ethics and morality in the negotiation process may boost the level of trust. A trustful environment enables the negotiators to discover and utilize hidden commercial value, including higher observance of commitments and increased performance. Different ethical and moral standards around the globe, based on cultural and religious principles, as well as historical background and maturity of the society encumber the negotiation process and reduce the negotiation's efficiency. Existing legal tools like the doctrine of culpa in contrahendo are very much nationally orientated and do not provide the needed solution. Other legal instruments on the international level are missing.
The research shall analyze whether soft law is the right solution for the existing problem, and if a self-regulation mechanism might be developed as a tool for the establishment of trust and increasing of efficiency in the negotiation process. The self-regulation mechanism concerned is expected to include an independent ranking system and shall operate on the platform of corporate codes of conduct. The academic analysis shall rely heavily on the theory of corporate social responsibility with emphasis of the role of the corporate code of conducts.
Peter Koerver Schmidt arbejder med afhandlingen: CFC-regler i dansk og international skatteret
Afhandlingens genstandsfelt er den delmængde af skatteretlige værnsregler, der har til formål at imødegå, at selskaber - som led i international skatteplanlægning - flytter mobile aktiver og indkomststrømme til jurisdiktioner, hvor de lokale regler indebærer en mere gunstig eller eventuelt ingen beskatning. Med andre ord skal afhandlingen have fokus på regler til værn af indkomstopgørelsens positive indkomstkomponenter.
Blandt de værnsregler, der har til formål at beskytte skattebasens positive indkomstkomponenter, spiller CFC-regler en markant rolle ("CFC" kan stå for både "Controlled Foreign Company" og "Controlled Financial Corporation"). Førstnævnte betegnelse er den internationalt almindeligt anerkendte, mens sidstnævnte anvendes i Danmark). Sådanne regler går i korte træk ud på, at et moderselskab - såfremt særlige forhold gør sig gældende vedrørende et eller flere datterselskabers finansielle/mobile indkomster og aktiver - skal medregne indkomst i datterselskaberne ved sin egen indkomstopgørelse. Selvom både OECD og Europa Kommissionen anerkender sådanne reglers eksistens og nødvendighed, er det samtidig åbenbart, at CFC-regler potentielt være i konflikt med landendes forpligtelser i henhold til dobbeltbeskatningsoverenskomster og ikke mindst EU-retten. Genstandsfeltet for PhD-afhandlingen udgøres således af et retsområde, der har væsentlig samfundsmæssig betydning, og som samtidig er omgæret af usikkerhed og modstridende interesser.
Det primære formål med afhandlingen vil være at analysere og fastlægge gældende ret i relation til det danske CFC-regime (de lege lata) samt at bidrage til en bedre forståelse af CFC-reglers udformning, anvendelse og betydning i et internationalt perspektiv. Med andre ord er det tanken, at afhandlingen skal analysere CFC-regler ud fra flere forskellige perspektiver, herunder bl.a.:
  •  i relation til dansk ret
  •  i en komparativ sammenhæng, hvor danske regler stilles over for lignende regler i andre jurisdiktioner
  •  i relation til EU-retten, herunder EF-domstolens praksis og Europa Kommissionens bestræbelser på at indføre regler om en fælles EU selskabssskattebase (Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base).
  •  i forhold til dobbeltbeskatningsindkomster
  • i retspolitisk sammenhæng, hvor det søges afklaret, om og i givet fald hvordan værnsreglerne kan affattes mere hensigtsmæssigt i overensstemmelse med EU- og dobbeltbeskatningsoverenskomstret (betragtninger de lege ferenda.
Michael Tell arbejder med afhandlingen: Rentefradrag - Berettigelse, begrænsninger og effekter i et internationalt perspektiv
 I et globalt samfund er det særligt vigtig for et lille land med en åben økonomi at have et robust skattesystem. Et forsvindende skatteprovenu eller uønskværdige incitamenter i lovgivningen er faresignaler, som løbende skal evalueres. Den skattemæssige forskelsbehandling af omkostninger forbundet med egenkapital og fremmedkapital, har medvirket til øget gearing af selskaber i Danmark og andre lande, og samtidig medført en kraftig reducering af visse selskabers skattepligtige indkomster i Danmark. I Danmark indførtes ved lov nr. 540 af 6. juni 2007 to nye rentefradragsbegrænsningsregler henholdsvis SEL § 11 B (renteloftet) og SEL § 11 C (EBIT-reglen), og andre lande har ligeledes indført regler med samme formål. Reglernes udformning er dog vidt forskellig fra land til land. Danmark har således valgt at reducere forskelsbehandlingen gennem en reducering af rentefradraget i særlige tilfælde, mens et land som Belgien har indført en fradragsret knyttet til egenkapitalen.
Formålet med afhandlingen er at belyse, om de danske reglers udformning og indretning er optimal i forhold til reglernes formål, særligt set i forhold til alternativerne, herunder inddrages erfaringer fra andre landes håndtering af problemstillingen.
Katja Joo Dyppel is working on the research project: Taxation of derivatives - a challenge for the Danish income tax system?
Derivative trading is one of the largest businesses in the world - if not the largest. To illustrate, as of April 2007 the turnover in the derivative market (i.e. over-the-counter (OTC) market and exchange traded derivative market) were approximately 5,04 trillion US dollars at a daily basis.
The nature of derivatives makes them well suitable for hedging, speculation and achieving desirable tax results. Depending on the intended use, a derivative can be traded on a stand-alone basis or as an implemented component in a financial instrument. In fact, with derivatives you can have almost any payoff pattern you want.
The Danish income tax system is based on a system of "tax cubbyholes" - a system that specifies an exact tax treatment for a few financial instruments; including some derivatives - forwards, futures and options. However, the Danish notion (terminskontrakter og aftaler om køberetter og salgsretter) is more narrow than what is normally known as forwards, futures and options. Due to the nature of derivatives any given (new) derivative - e.g. swaps, credit default swaps, caps, collars, derivatives based on emission rights etc. - is unlikely to fit squarely into a particular tax cubbyhole. Thus, the appropriate tax treatment of such product is often unclear. If such derivatives are subject to different tax treatment based on the qualification of the tax cubbyholes, it is likely that identical cash flow pattern are subject to unequal tax treatments, i.e. the tax treatment of yield from derivatives depends on in which form the instrument seams to appear in. This can result in inconvenient tax arbitrage opportunities as well as the opposite situation, where net payoffs equal to zero (pre-tax) are subject to tax liabilities. An unclear definition of the tax cubbyholes will moreover increase these inconveniences.
In other words, notwithstanding that specific legislation regarding taxation of derivatives is implemented in Danish domestic tax law, it is, for more than one reason, still of high relevance to make an analysis within this field. Firstly due to the fact that the scope of these provisions does by far covers all derivatives in financial sense, resulting in unclear tax treatment. And secondary due to the ongoing innovation of derivatives resulting in difficulties regarding qualification and taxation of new (or rare) types of derivatives. And thirdly as it is not clear whether complex derivatives are taxed as one or several instruments (bifurcation or integration).
The aim of the dissertation is to elucidate whether the Danish tax treatment of derivatives ensures a due process protection and eliminates inconvenient tax arbitrage possibilities and tax liabilities, i.e. whether the Danish income tax system is sufficient in regard to taxation of new derivatives. In this regard, comparative studies are made for illustration and inspiration purposes, e.g. to highlight general differences in tax systems and specific variations of tax legislation in other jurisdictions.
 The outline of the dissertation is firstly to clarify the literature on taxation of new derivatives by identifying the framework of an optimal tax system, e.g. ensuring universality, neutrality, consistency etc. Secondly to analyze the Danish income tax treatment of derivatives - de lega lata - primary governed by Kursgevinstloven §§ 29-33 and Statsskatteloven §§ 4-6. Thirdly to elucidate issues arising in relation to cross-border transactions by analyzing Danish tax treatment in regard to withholding taxes as well as classification of derivatives according to the OECD Double Taxation Convention. And finally based on the theory on optimal taxation of new derivatives to conclude whether taxation of derivatives is an insuperable challenge for the current Danish income tax system or whether reform is needed.
Carina Risvig Hansen arbejder med afhandlingen: Offentlige kontrakter der helt eller delvist undtaget fra Udbudsdirektivet
Udbudsdirektivet undtager en række kontrakter helt eller delvist fra dets anvendelsesområde. Dette drejer sig bl.a. om:
  • Kontrakter der beløbsmæssigt ligger under EU´s tærskelværdier
  • Kontrakter om tjenesteydelser der listet i direktivets bilag II B samt
  • Koncessionskontrakter om tjenesteydelser
Retsstillingen for de ordregivende myndigheder når de indgår disse kontrakter er noget uklar. Indgåelsen er ikke underlagt udbudsdirektivets detaljerede procedure regler, men EU-Domstolen har fastslået at traktaternes bestemmelser og de heraf afledte principper finder anvendelse ved indgåelsen af disse kontrakter - i hvert fald i de tilfælde hvor der foreligger en indre markeds interesse.
Afhandlingens primære fokus er således - med udgangspunkt i sager fra EU-Domstolen - at fastlægge og analysere de nærmere krav, der kan udledes af traktaternes bestemmelser og de heraf afledte principper ved indgåelse af de tre ovennævnte kontrakttyper. Dette for at fastlægge, hvad der er gældende ret på området. Afhandlingen vil derudover fokusere på kravene til håndhævelse af de regler der finder anvendelse ved indgåelse af disse typer af kontrakter.
Afhandlingen vil primært fokusere på de EU retlige regler - dog vil dansk ret blive inddraget i det omfang formålet tilsiger det.
Afhandlingen skrives på engelsk.
Karsten Duch Lynggaard is working on the research project: The prohibition on financial assistance for purchase of own shares
This thesis is about and examines in detail the extent of the so-called prohibition on a company of providing financial assistance for the purchase by a shareholder of the company’s own shares.
This prohibition on a company of providing financial assistance for the purchase by a current or future shareholder of the company’s own shares is in Danish generally known as the “selvfinansieringsforbud” and hereinafter referred to as the “Ban”, cf. the Danish Companies Act art. 206, sec. 1 (“Selskabsloven” of hereinafter referred to as the “Act”).
The purpose of the Ban is to prevent a company from participating in the financing of its own acquisition detrimental for the company’s creditors and other parties .
The core of the Ban is that it is prohibited for a company to enter a loan agreement between the company and a purchaser of shares in the company enabling the purchaser to pay the sum loaned to the seller as the agreed purchase price for the shares in the company. Such a loan arrangement could circumvent the Acts rules on limitations of distribution of share dividends and would reduce the company’s liquidity and consequently its ability to pay its creditors . It is further in the core of the Ban if the company issues a guarantee to a bank for a loan between the bank and a purchaser of shares in the company.
The giving of financial assistance is banned in order to ensure that those who buy shares in companies do so from their own resources and not from those of the company .
Outside these two examples and clear-cut circumvention arrangements of the Ban, the extent of the Ban is unclear under Danish law .
Partly because of the uncertainty about the precise scope of the Ban, the range on practical situations in which the possibility of there being a financial assistance problem can crop up is huge .
The giving of financial assistance is relevant in many mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) transactions and in particularly in large M&A transactions where millions or billions of DKK are being paid (and consequently need to be financed) in order to purchase the shares in the relevant company.
Mette Ohm Søndergaard is working on the research project: PhD in law on marketing and sale of food in Denmark
Mette Ohm Søndergaard's PhD is part of a cross-disciplinary project at CBS called FairSpeak 1. An overall purpose of the FairSpeak 1 project is to provide recommendations and guidelines for food labelling fairness including among others a shared frame of reference applicable to future cases of misleading advertising. The PhD project and corresponding thesis focuses on consumer protection and the Community rules regarding misleading advertising and presentation of food packages, with special focus on the names under which food products are sold to consumers.
The subject is important because the majority of decisions when buying food is made in-store causing consumers to rely mainly on information etc. given on the packages. In order for consumers to trust the information, for producers to provide truthful information and for the authorities to control the market an overview of how food packaging can be misleading is necessary.
One of the main objects of the PhD is to analyse and describe the scope of the prohibition against misleading advertising and presentation of food, with emphasis on the rules and case law concerning how to name food products.
The PhD looks closer at naming food products and the difficulties related to the governance structure, the conflicts arising between European legislation and national (Danish) interpretation and enforcement, and the difficulties this brings primarily to the protection of consumers but also to the completion of the internal market.
Here, the preliminary hypothesis is that the general rules on free movement, the rules on labelling, e.g. language requirements, and case law besides forming a complex set of rules leave little "protection" to consumers in regards to generic food products.
 

Afsluttede projekter

EU-arbejdsret
Juridisk Institut ved CBS indgår sammen med otte andre forskningsinstitutter i Norden i et samarbejde om EU og Arbejdsret. Der samarbejdes systematisk og langsigtet om at samordne, udvikle og udnytte nordiske resurser inden for området EU-arbejdsret. Samarbejdsaftalen kan ses her (pdf): Samarbetsavtal 2008-2011
Som led i samarbejdet udgives nyhedsbrevet EU&Arbetsrätt: http://arbetsratt.juridicum.su.se/euarb/10-1/default.asp og samarbejdet driver Arbetsrättsportalen - http://arbetsratt.juridicum.su.se/ - hvor forskere og praktikere mødes.
FairSpeak
The FairSpeak research group at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) develops tools and methods for analyzing the condensed information found on food labels and for relating it to the ability of different consumers to understand it.
Researchers specializing in language and cognition, knowledge management, consumer behavior, packaging design, marketing and marketing law join efforts in this innovative and interdisciplinary cooperation in order to formulate guidelines to help food manufacturers improve their communication with the consumers through fair food labelling.
The group’s first project on food names and claims “Spin or Fair Speak – when foods talk” (2007-2010) is financed by the Programme Commission on Food and Health under the Danish Council for Strategic Research.
The project targets consumers’ decoding of food names, claims and other immediate verbal and nonverbal design elements on the product packaging during in-store decision making, and the problem of cues and combinations of such which may potentially mislead consumers, in particular with regard to nutrition and health related information.
It aims at developing a new, shared frame of reference for authorities, companies, and consumer organisations to assess whether and how the immediate presentation of a given food product is likely to mislead consumers, while at the same time enhancing the knowledge base of the Danish food industry for creatively integrating the full communicative potential of foods in the development of new, tasty, and healthy products.
The initial empirical input is the corpus of cases on misleading food labelling processed by the Danish authorities. On this basis a typology of conflict scenarios will be established and matched against an integrated theoretical model of consumers’ decoding of a food product’s full semiotic potential in the buying situation. The model is formulated by integrating relevant theory and empirical finding from linguistic, perceptual, cognitive, and food sociological research. Subsequently, selected hypotheses and predictions on actual consumer interpretations and outcomes of design adjustments will be tested empirically by combining for the present purpose a number of empirical tools, including eyetracking, on- and offline interpretation of novel/creative word combinations, questionnaire-based mapping of inference drawing and changes in truth assignments, sensory tests, and qualitative post-shopping and focus group interviews.
Follow-up projects will apply the principles and methods identified by the Danish project to other markets, languages and cultures and develop them further possibly starting with a selection of some of the export markets relevant the Danish companies participating in the FairSpeak project
The FairSpeak Research Group at CBS:
Viktor Smith , Associate Professor, Ph.D., Center for Language, Cognition and Mentality, Department of International Culture and Communication Studies, CBS
Henrik Selsøe Sørensen , Associate Professor, MA, Center for Language, Cognition and Mentality, Department of International Culture and Communication Studies, CBS
Jesper Clement , Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Department of Marketing, CBS
Peter Møgelvang-Hansen , Professor, Law Department, CBS
Mette Ohm Søndergaard , Ph.D. Student, Law Department, CBS
Francoise Qvistgaard, MA, project coordinator, Department of International Culture and Communication Studies, CBS
For further information on the FairSpeak Project see www.fairspeak.org
Blurring Boundaries
The project "Blurring Boundaries: EU Law and the Danish Welfare State" is a legal, dogmatic analysis of the intersection of Danish law and EU law on the provision of welfare services with a view to examine how the integration of the Danish welfare state in the EU and its internal market manifests itself at a legal level, in particular, in the case law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and in emerging general principles of EU law.
As community law stands at present, there is an increasingly blurred line between state and market. On the one hand, there is a wave of liberalisation and privatisation, which is changing the traditional way of setting up welfare services. At the same time certain basic values and principles, e.g. non-discrimination, equality, social inclusion, and access to essential services are being pursued in the market place, elevating fundamental rights, values and principles from restrictions on state action to general principles of law binding for both the state and private actors on the market.
The term ‘blurring boundaries’ in the project title refers both to the increasingly blurred line between public and private law in regards to welfare services and to the blurring boundaries between EU law and national law on this subject. The main problem areas covered by the project are:
  • Internal market law and welfare services 
  • Fundamental rights and non-discrimination law aspects 
  • Services of general interest within the meaning of Article 86(2) EC.
Conferences and books:
2007. Services Directive and its impact on the Welfare State. See further information about the 2007 conference here . Book related to the conference: http://www.djoef-forlag.dk/vare/8757418063
2008 "The Lisbon Treaty - a Step Towards Integrating Welfare Functions into EU Law?" See further information about the 2008 conference here . Book related to conference: http://www.djoef-forlag.dk/vare/8757418985
2009 "The Role of the Courts in Developing a European Social Model - Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives". See further information about the 2009 conference here . Book related to conference: http://www.djoef-forlag.dk/vare/8757421722
A Working Paper building on the results obtained in the Blurring Boundaries project is available at SSRN (Social Science Research Network) at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1618758
Participating researchers:
Professor, PhD Ulla Neergaard ( ulla.neergaard@jur.ku.dk)
Associate professor, PhD, Lynn Roseberry ( lr.jur@cbs.dk)
Professor, dr.jur. Ruth Nielsen ( rn.jur@cbs.dk)
Assistant Professor, PhD Grith Ølykke ( goe.jur@cbs.dk)
The project has received a grant of DKK 2.8 million from the Danish Social Science Research Council for the period 2007 - 2009.
See:
General project description
Subproject on Internal Market Law and Welfare Services (Ruth Nielsen + phd-student)
Subproject on Fundamental rights and non-discrimination law aspects (Lynn Roseberry)
Subproject on Services of general interest within the meaning of Article 86(2) EC (Ulla Neergaard)
EU-Asia Link
This research project will establish an EU-Asia inter-university network for teaching and research in public procurement regulation, which is in an embryonic stage or non-existent in the Asian developing countries, through human resource development, curriculum development and institutional development.
The project consists of the University of Nottingham in the UK and the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), Xinjiang University in China and the University of Malaya.
Research team at the Law Department, Copenhagen Business School, connected to the Asia Link project:
Read more in the Asia Link project description (pdf) and/or visit the Asia Link website: www.cbs.dk/alpp


Sidst opdateret af Kim Allan Jørgenen 03.05.2012