This essay re-examines the concepts of Law and New Governance with a view to pursuing three cumulative objectives …. First, it emphasizes that both law and new governance are deeply contested concepts whose meaning and inter … it seeks to sketch a new framework of the relationship between Law and New Governance. This framework notes first, the …

This paper is about the difficult relationship between law and governance in the European Union. The turn to governance … the turn to governance seems to be irresistible and irreversible. Such innovation, however, is not easily reconcilable … governing techniques that are today defined as governance can also be found within national systems and were, furthermore, the …

The emergence in the European Union of new modes of governance (NMG) such as the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) has … to by studies of the OMC and other new modes of governance but is rarely integrated systematically into their analysis. …

academic literature it is stylized as a focal point for decentralised modes of governance. But drawing on Michel Foucault …’s governmentality approach the OMC does not seem to represent an innovative governance tool but a governmental system of power. The OMC …