The European integrative experiment rests on a dynamic equilibrium of intergovernmental and supranational features of the regulatory framework of the European Union. One of the most important challenges to this system currently lies in finding ways to maintain its capacity to operate and, at the...

The article argues against recent attempts to subordinate the legal discourse to the logics of the political system. The discussion on global constitutionalism shows better than any other debate that the relationship of law and politics is one of two distinctive communication systems or...

The puzzle of international society has long occupied International Relations (IR) theory, but it lends itself to a clearer articulation in legal positivist theory. On strict legal positivist terms, international society is defined as a compact of legal equals, states. However if states claim to...