Matjaz NahtigalFaculty of Social Sciences University of Ljubljana · Department of International Relations
Matjaz Nahtigal
Doctor of Law, University of Ljubljana Law Faculty (1999), LL.M. (1994) and SJD (2001), Harvard Law School
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October 2020 - March 2023
Education
September 1997 - June 2001
Harvard Law School
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Publications (36)
The modern development dilemma of how to achieve an inclusive knowledge economy is a challenge that faces both the most developed and the least developing economies in the world. As the current crisis demonstrates, this is not a theoretical problem: partial global access to vaccines (namely, as a result of current intellectual property
frameworks,...
The EU has adopted the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) as the key instrument help to ensure that the EU, its member states, regions and local communities emerge stronger and more resilient from the pandemic crisis.
The EU recovery plans should be seen as an opportunity not merely to address the post-pandemic health, social, economic and fin...
The challenge of ensuring the space environment’s long-term sustainability in the context of the exploration and commercialisation of outer space raises several important issues and dimensions with respect to both international environmental law and sustainable development. The research question analyses the extent to which such exploration benefit...
The European Union is standing at a crossroads. Behind it is a turbulent decade
of multiple crises, austerity, and uneven recovery. Brexit, which preoccupied
the European Union over the last few years, is only the external expression of its
conceptual, institutional, and policy weaknesses. Other external expressions can
be seen in the slide toward...
The purpose of this research is to provide an institutional framework – economic, legal, regulatory, educational – for the Central and East European countries aspiring to reach the levels of inclusive knowledge of economy and society known in some of the most developed regions in the world. The challenge to reach such a level of development is twof...
The purpose of this research is to provide an institutional framework-economic, legal, regulatory, educational-for the Central and East European countries aspiring to reach the levels of inclusive knowledge of economy and society known in some of the most developed regions in the world. The challenge to reach such a level of development is twofold....
The difference between the postwar development of international legal trade regimes and the context of the latest free-trade initiatives is that the disparate effects of trade liberalisation have also become visible in the most advanced economies in the world, including the United States and the European Union, not only in developing countries. Thi...
The purpose of this article is to analyze the concept of structural reforms, as defined by the European Commission and other European institutions. The article critically examines the content of structural reforms, which is not neutral and often leads to the deepening of economic and social inequalities. Structural reforms in the form of labor mark...
The ownership structure and governance of banks in the European Union (EU), and in the Eurozone in particular, is far from homogenous. A variety of banking models existed before the global and financial crisis and a variety of banking models remains in place after the crisis. What remains particularly interesting in the context of the EU is the ban...
Firms are driving forces of economic and social development; therefore it is important to understand what is their primary goal or purpose. The aim of the paper is twofold. First, the paper presents baseline theoretical concepts on the firms’ purposes. Secondly, the paper presents the results of the empirical study in Slovenia with which we tried t...
A growing number of scholars, academics and policy-makers advocate substantial reforms of the existing European institutional architecture. Advocates of deepening the European integration recommend that the optimal development of the European Union (EU) would be to establish a fully developed banking union, an advanced form of fiscal union and to u...
Despite slow return to growth in the Eurozone, there are many imbalances and obstacles to achieve socially inclusive and sustainable development in the Eurozone and in the European Union (EU) as a whole. In the aftermath of the crisis, large parts of European population at the local, regional and national levels lack sufficient resources, skills an...
The purpose of this article is to show that the current European Union (EU) legal framework is unnecessarily restrictive and unduly suppresses economic and developmental initiatives in many stagnating regions across Europe. More innovative industrial policies, instruments and measures should be adopted in a highly decentralized manner across the EU...
This article investigates some possible models of integration with different outcomes for the European Union (EU). Many experts have tried to adjust Dani Rodrik's world economy trilemma to explore future EU integration options. However, his three governance models have limited explanatory power in illustrating the dilemmas of EU integration. Instea...
The ongoing European crisis has revealed many deficiencies in the existing European institutional architecture. One of the crucial deficiencies is the unsustainable European regional disparity between the most developed European regions and those regions that are falling behind — a gap that is growing. This pattern of development creates an unsusta...
Povzetek. Najpomembnejša značilnost spopadanja z veliko finančno, gospodarsko in socialno krizo od leta 2008 naprej je, da se poskuša na globalni, evropski in nacionalni ravni rešiti v okviru obstoječega omejevalnega niza institucij repre-zentativne demokracije, tržnega gospodarstva in svobodne civilne družbe. Razprave o alternativnih institucional...
The current EU context does not serve the real needs of large parts of the European population at the local, regional, and national levels. The growing gap between the privileged segment of society on the one hand – with its access to high-quality education, advanced parts of the economy, new technologies, and capital – and large portions of the ex...
The purpose of this article is to show that the current European Union (EU) legal framework is unnecessarily restrictive and unduly suppresses economic and developmental initiatives in many stagnating regions across Europe.
More innovative industrial policies, instruments and measures should be adopted in a highly decentralized manner across the E...
The key characteristic of dealing with the financial, economic and social crisis since 2008 is that efforts are being made to solve the crisis on global, European and national levels within the existing limited set of institutions of a representative democracy, market economy and free civil society. A discussion of the alternative institutional pos...
The key lessons of mass privatization implemented in Central and Eastern Europe are analyzed and presented in this paper What are the necessary regulatory, institutional and social ingredients which provide incentives for successful restructuring of the firms in transition and what are the essential impediments which may burden the efforts of restr...
The purpose of this article is to reflect upon the importance and the role of financial institutions before, during and after the financial crisis and to outline proposals for alternative approaches to the financial crisis. Without an understanding of the historic development, nature and scope, and important limitations of modern financial institut...
In the article on the EU Fiscal Compact we are trying to show that the Fiscal Compact as adopted in its current form does not necessarily lead to the improved quality of fiscal policy in the Eurozone. At the same time it disproportionally interfers with the autonomous fiscal policies of the member states and with their constitutional arrangements....
The key lessons of mass privatization implemented in Central and Eastern Europe are analyzed and presented in this paper. What are the necessary regulatory, institutional and social ingredients which provide incentive for successful restructuring of the firms in transition and what are the essential impediments which may burden the efforts of restr...
Nothing in the contemporary world matters more than achieving more inclusive, more diverse, pluralistic and balanced growth and development. The present international institutional framework is insufficient in achieving such goals. New ideas about how to institutionally reshape the contemporary trade, finance and other international legal rules mus...
Možne poti izhoda iz finančne krize Povzetek. Finančna kriza, ki izhaja iz ZDA ter se je razširila v med narodno finančno in gospodarsko krizo, je v ospredje pripeljala potrebo po temeljitem konceptualnem razmisleku o preoblikovanju procesov finančne, gospodarske in trgovinske globalizacije, kakr šna je delovala zadnja desetletja. Ta postbrettonw...
The thema probandi of this contribution is the reception of the ancient Roman virtue of fides in applicable Slovenian administrative law. With the use of the historical method and a teleological explanation of the existing law (de lege lata), the authors of this contribution examine how the virtue of fides developed throughout history and in what w...
Nahtigal, M. (2009). Introductory Remarks by Matjaz Nahtigal. Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting, 103, 421-423. doi:10.1017/S0272503700034753
The panel was convened on March 28, 2009 with the following panelists: Uche Ewelukwa, University of Arkansas: Robert Howse, New York University School of Law; Sanjay Reddy, Columbia University and modera...
International Institutions, International Legal Norms, and the Millennium Development Goals - Volume 100 - Matjaz Nahtigal
The assessment of large scale institutional transformation of the countries in Central and Eastern Europe is not a goal in itself. It should serve as a medium for reflexive thinking about the missed opportunities during the transition and future possibilities in the context of European integration. Institutional transformation is not a one-time his...
The network of international economic, political, and social organizations established at the initiative of the first world constitute a nascent global state whose function is to realize the interests of the powerful states to the disadvantage of third world states and peoples. The evolving global state formation may therefore be described as havin...
Temeljna teza knjige je, da postaja tradicionalni konflikt med javnim in
zasebnim pravom vse bolj presežen. Postopoma ga nadomešča konflikt
med vzdrževanjem obstoječe institucionalne ureditve in iskanjem novih
institucionalnih rešitev. Medtem ko poskuša dominantni stil pravnega
racionaliziranja vzdrževati obstoječo institucionalno ureditev kot najb...
Typescript (photocopy). "Supervisor: Professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger." Thesis (LL. M.)--Harvard Law School, 1994. Includes bibliographical references.
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The key challenge in the process of deepening and widening economic and legal integration is how to disseminate the economic, technological, financial and other benefits to those regions and parts of the population that are currently excluded. As the recent shifts toward traditional protectionism show, the pattern of exclusion, economic and social insecurity takes place not only in the developing, but increasingly in the most developed countries. To overcome this negative trend, institutional innovations capable of disseminating these benefits as widely as possible should be envisaged at the local, national and international levels. The key international institutions can be reformed in such a way as to support more inclusive, more sustainable and more balanced international development. More policy space, more tools and instruments are needed to enable the developing and the developed countries to start (re)building productive capacities in the context of inclusive modern knowledge-based economy and society.
The goal of this research is to analyze the many opportunities that were missed by the countries in transition in their path toward European integration. The goal of the CEE countries should not strive to compete among themselves to attract foreign investments by offering cheaper labor, low levels of taxation and by dismantling their welfare arrangements. Instead, they should compete on the basis of high-quality public institutions, decentralized strategic coordination between the public and private sector and investments in human capital. Rule of law, constitutional democracy and independent civil society – as opposed to the slide toward “illiberal democracy” and populism in many CEE countries – can be strengthened only if these countries embark on the path of structural and institutional improvements at home.
The prolonged financial, economic and social crisis exposed the institutional vulnerabilities of the EU and Eurozone design. The Lisbon Treaty, although declared as the best possible compromise between European ideals and European realities proved to be an inadequate framework to address the major economic crisis, prolonged stagnation and deepening of social uncertainties. Furthermore, the 'one-size-fits-all' top down approach contains development initiatives from local, regional and national entities. Even the slow process of the banking, political and (highly limited) fiscal Union does not pay sufficient attention to the needs, possibilities and comparative advantages of diverse European localities and regions. Accordingly, the goal of this research project is therefore to envisage dialectical balances between the national self-determination and the supranational coordination for the advancement of common goals. To rescue and advance a variety of European economic, social and political models, the approach to this research can be tentatively labeled as experimental democratic governance in the alternative European context.
