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...]

In international legal scholarship, global governance ideas are being framed exclusively with recourse to public law – at the expense of private law. In this paper I question what the obscuring of private law conceptions and methodologies implies and whether international lawyers … [Read more...]

This paper aims to explore the impact of global governance on legal thinking by studying the case of global administrative law.  Tracing global governance at the core of the international rule of law movement to the restructuring of legal landscape, I suggest that global … [Read more...]

An increasing number of fora and networks have been recognised to play a role in international or transnational normative processes. While lawmaking by formal, intergovernmental international organizations received abundant attention over the past years, we know less about a … [Read more...]

The aim is to examine what could be done to face the EU serious crisis –euro crisis, distrust of citizens, inadequacy of decision-making with 27 heterogeneous Member States, dysfunctional institutions. The option to continue on the current path does not look promising, and a … [Read more...]