This paper investigates the responses of the United States and its European allies to the rise of strategic, weaponized corruption and the prevention of foreign interference. I claim that the designation of corruption as a national security threat shapes this response and changes … [Read more...]

This working paper is a draft chapter from a forthcoming book co-authored with Full Teaching Professor, Dr. Anne Boerger (Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta) and tentatively entitled: The Dual Nature of the European Community: The Making of the Institutional and Legal … [Read more...]

We take a close look at the most important legal techniques deployed by the European Union to make sure that the whole spectrum of denying non-citizens rights – from dignity to the right to life – is never presented as a violation of EU law even in the cases when dozens of … [Read more...]

The European Union (EU) has adopted a policy objective of fostering access to (non-personal) data. Law is one of the instruments towards this aim, particularly through the enactment of data access rights. The clash of intellectual property (IP) law with those rights is generally … [Read more...]

In this paper I claim that “authoritarian constitutionalism” is not an oxymoron as it may seem. A series of authoritarian practices have always characterized constitutionalism. Among them, I examine the case of calls for executive dominance in the context of a limited, although … [Read more...]