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Proportionality in EU Law: A Balancing Act?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
AbstractThe proportionality principle plays a key role in constitutional review of public acts. Its use legitimises the constitutional claims of EU law in the context of a multi-level polity system. The application of proportionality in the EU differs based on whether legal acts of the EU or of its Member States are concerned.
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Proportionality-Induced Distribution Laws

2014
The differential equation for Lorenz curves which leads to the one-parametric Pareto distribution, see Chap. 7, can be considered as proportionality law. This law relates the Lorenz density to the income share of certain population segments and allows a variety of variations and relaxations leading to a functional rather than differential equation. One
Thomas Kämpke, Franz Josef Radermacher
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Proportionality: Comparative Law Lessons

Judicial Review, 2007
(2007). Proportionality: Comparative Law Lessons. Judicial Review: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 31-55.
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Proportionality and Linear Laws

1991
When you have completed this chapter you should be able to 1. draw a straight-line graph to represent data 2. find the gradient and intercept of a straight-line graph and hence write down the line’s equation 3. draw a straight-line graph from its equation 4.
John Berry, Patrick Wainwright
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Proportionality in International Law

Law & Ethics of Human Rights, 2010
Across a broad range of subjects, there is now wide agreement that the principle of proportionality governs the extent to which a provocation may lawfully be countered by what might otherwise be an unlawful response. That is the central role assigned to proportionality in international law and it is deeply rooted in the cultural history of societies ...
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Testing the Law of Proportionate Effect

The Journal of Industrial Economics, 1979
IT IS well known that the distribution of companies by size is approximately log-normal. This form arises under certain conditions as the limiting distribution of the product of positive random variates as the number of terms in the product tends to infinity.
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Proportionality in International Humanitarian Law

2023
This book seeks to clarify the legal concept of proportionality in international humanitarian law, as it applies during armed conflict. It is argued in the book that a refocus of the interpretation of the proportionality rule is warranted to enhance the protection of civilians.
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Proportionality in International Law

2017
In the most general terms proportionality requires a balance to be drawn between frequently conflicting values. Consequently, its application depends on a subjective value judgment and that very indeterminacy sometimes sits uneasily within law. Proportionality, nevertheless, is a pervasive and familiar concept within both the civil and criminal ...
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Proportionality in Medical Law

2019
The chapter surveys the use of proportionality reasoning in medical law, attempting to analyse the different requirements entailed by proportionality, and highlight some potential deficiencies of proportionality reasoning in the domain of medical law.
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Proportionality, Equality Laws, and Religion

2017
This book considers how the law should manage conflicts between the right of religious freedom and that of non-discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. These disputes are often high-profile and frequently receive a lot of media attention and public debate. Starting from the basis that both these rights are valuable and worthy of protection,
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