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    • INTRODUCTION
    • THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC ORDER, CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
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    • INTRODUCTION: COLLECTIVE INTERESTS , ‘PRÊT À PORTER’ JUSTICE?
    • THE PREVENTIVE FUNCTION OF COLLECTIVE ACTIONS FOR DAMAGES IN CONSUMER LAW
    • RECOGNITION AND RES JUDICATA OF US CLASS ACTION JUDGMENTS IN EUROPEAN LEGAL SYSTEMS
    • DUE PROCESS IN INTERNATIONAL MASS CLAIMS
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    • INTRODUCTION: MULTI- AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY: MERE THEORY OR JUST PRACTICE?
    • ESTABLISHING RELATIONS BETWEEN LAW AND OTHER FORMS OF THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE
    • FACING THE INTERFACE: FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY AND THE LAW
    • A SUITABLE BOY: THE ABOLITION OF FEUDALISM IN INDIA
    • ECLECTICISM IN LAW AND ECONOMICS
  • Volume 01 Issue 04
    • INTRODUCTION: THE IMPACT OF GUIDO CALABRESI ON LAW AND ECONOMICS SCHOLARSHIP
    • GUIDO CALABRESI ON TORTS: ITALIAN COURTS AND THE CHEAPEST COST AVOIDER
    • THE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN PROPERTY RULES AND LIABILITY RULES: EXPERIENCES FROM GERMAN LAW
    • PROPERTY RULES, LIABILITY RULES AND PATENT MARKET FAILURE
    • CALABRESI AND BEHAVIOURAL TORT LAW AND ECONOMICS
    • Video: Prof. Guido Calabresi: Dies Natalis 8 november 2008
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    • INTRODUCTION: STAYING OUT OF COURT
    • STAYING OUT OF COURT? RESERVATIONS ABOUT A SUPPOSED PRACTICE AND A POPULAR POLICY
    • ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES IN CRIME CONTROL
    • REPUTATIONAL SANCTIONS IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC REGULATION
    • EUROPEAN STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE: HOW FAR INTEGRATION?
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    • INTRODUCTION: OBSERVING THE RULE OF LAW IN THE EUROPEAN UNION-SELECTED ISSUES
    • THE EU RULE OF LAW: CUTTING PATHS THROUGH CONFUSION
    • MERGER CONTROL AND THE RULE OF LAW
    • CONCERN ABOUT THE QUALITY OF EU LEGISLATION: WHAT KIND OF PROBLEM, BY WHAT KIND OF STANDARDS
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    • INTRODUCTION: THE MANY FACETS OF PRECAUTIONARY LOGIC
    • PREVENTION, PRECAUTION, LOGIC AND LAW
    • A PRECAUTIONARY- PRINCIPLED APPROACH TOWARDS UNCERTAIN RISKS: REVIEW AND DECISION-THEORETIC ELABORATION
    • THE MEANING OF THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF CRIMINAL MEASURES IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM
    • PRECAUTIONARY CULTURE AND THE RISE OF POSSIBILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT
    • NEITHER ACCEPTABLE NOR CERTAIN - COLD WAR ANTICS FOR 21ST CENTURY PRECAUTIONARY CULTURE
    • PRECAUTIONARY LOGIC AND A POLICY OF MODERATION
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    • INTRODUCTION: THE POSSIBILITIES OF COMPARATIVE LAW METHODS FOR RESEARCH ON THE RULE OF LAW IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
    • VERTICAL COMPARATIVE LAW METHODS: TOOLS FOR CONCEPTUALISING THE INTERNATIONAL RULE OF LAW
    • INSTITUTIONAL TRANSPLANTATION AND THE RULE OF LAW: HOW THIS INTERDISCIPLINARY METHOD CAN ENHANCE THE LEGITIMACY OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
    • RESEARCHING CIVIL REMEDIES FOR INTERNATIONAL CORRUPTION: THE CHOICE OF THE FUNCTIONAL COMPARATIVE METHOD
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• INTRODUCTION: THE MANY FACETS OF PRECAUTIONARY ...

INTRODUCTION: THE MANY FACETS OF PRECAUTIONARY LOGIC

Roel Pieterman 

The collection of contributions to this issue of Erasmus Law Review
illustrates the breadth of the academic writing on the theme of precaution.
Only the article by Trouwborst can be considered to belong to the original
domain of the legal discourse on the precautionary principle (PP) as a
principle of international environmental law. The rest of the contributions
clearly show that other disciplines have become involved as well.

> read the entire introduction