regulatory norms are fundamentally exercises in the social construction of legitimacy …

, disproportionate outcomes give rise to societal concerns about procedural fairness and justice, such that the law loses legitimacy. Any … loss of legitimacy undermines would-be offenders' normative commitment to, and voluntary compliance with, the law. The UK … failure are responsible for the failure to earn and secure the legitimacy of the cartel offence. Yet the greatest regulatory …

becoming generators of soft law that may harden into national, EU or international law, the importance of legitimacy in agenda …-setting and in the development of best practices, rules, and standards increases. This paper discusses the legitimacy of the …

and function of justice-oriented reasoning in the EU legal discourse by deconstructing it from a perspective of legitimacy … justice (AFSJ). I argue that, despite the complicated relationship between the notions of justice and legitimacy, this linkage …. In examining these questions I start by investigating the justice and legitimacy symbiosis in the framework of the …

-standing fears about an absence of democratic legitimacy. In particular, the paper reflects on the democratic credentials of the EU …