REFGOV Reflexive Governance in the Public Interest

1. REFGOV Reflexive Governance in the Public Interest • Integrated Project • Multidisciplinary Project • 29 partners Coordinator: The Centre for Philosophy of Law, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Director: Professor Jacques Lenoble

2. Object • There are new mechanisms of governance to maximise the Public Interest. • There are insufficiencies, what perception do actors have of these insufficiencies? • Focus on emerging institutional mechanisms which seek to answer the insufficiencies. Identification - evaluation – institutional proposals. • The project covers 5 material fields of research. • It includes one theoretical unit and a cross-thematic seminar.

3. Subnetworks and units • Services of General Interest • Global Public Services and Common Goods • Institutional Frames for Markets • Corporate Governance • Fundamental Rights • Theoretical Unit • Cross-Thematic Seminar

4. Subnetworks and units • Services of General Interest • Energy • Health Care • Global Common Public Services • Transformations of global public services in access to clean water, energy provision, environmental services • Elaboration of an empirical research protocol applied to the current « Sustainable Impact Assessment » in Europe

5. Sub-networks and units • Institutional Frames for Markets • Competitive mechanisms in network industries (energy) • Regulation of digital and information networks • Intellectual property rights • Corporate Governance • Evolution of corporate governance codes • Effects of financialisation on employment and performance • Impact of governance codes on the enterprise • Corporate governance and interfirm networks

6. Sub-networks and units • Fundamental Rights • Fundamental social rights • Anti-discrimination law • Data protection • Criminal procedure • Theoretical unit • Theoretical coherence • Cross-Thematic Seminar • Integrative process

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