This paper examines the effects that the reception of decisions of international organizations and bodies in EU law may have in procedural standards followed in EU law and practice, such as participation and transparency. Illustrative examples shed light on the practical … [Read more...]
The Principle of Subsidiarity as a Constitutional Principle in International Law
This paper explores Subsidiarity as a constitutional principle in international law. A principle of subsidiarity regulates how to allocate or use authority within a political or legal order, and holds that the burden of argument lies with attempts to centralize authority. In EU … [Read more...]
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Domestic Politicization of International Institutions: Testing Competing Explanations Using Party Manifestos
This paper analyzes the politicization of international institutions, that is, a process in which international institutions become salient and controversial on the level of mass politics. Differentiating between dissenting and supportive acts of politicization, the paper matches … [Read more...]
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The Democratic Legitimacy of Judicial Review Beyond the State: Normative Subsidiarity and Judicial Standards of Review
Judicial review of the acts of national governments by courts beyond the state raises the question of the democratic legitimacy of such review. In this paper, I outline a position that identifies the ideal of self-government as the core of democracy and argue that in order to be … [Read more...]
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Constitutionalization? Whose Constitutionalization? Africa’s Ambivalent Engagement with the International Criminal Court
While the concept of constitutionalism evokes the idea of taming politics through the force of law, the making of constitutions is in fact a contested social process in which different jurisgenerative actors vie for discursive hegemony. No wonder then that in a pluralist … [Read more...]
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