The collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 ushered in a financial crisis whose ramifications are still being felt. Within the EU, collapse not only led to a change in regulatory rhetoric, emphasising the need to secure the stability of EU money markets, but also to a significant widening and...

Sag, wo die Soldaten sind, Wo sind sie geblieben? So begann die dritte Strophe von Pete Seeger's legendärem Blumen-Lied. Wie sollte die bittere Melancholie seiner Lyrik zu dem turn zu governance passen, den die Europapolitik offiziös unter dem Kommissionspräsidenten Romano Prodi i.J. 2001...

" Sag, wo die Soldaten sind, Wo sind sie geblieben? So begann die dritte Strophe von Pete Seeger's legendärem Blumen-Lied. Wie sollte die bittere Melancholie seiner Lyrik zu dem "turn zu governance" passen, den die Europapolitik offiziös unter dem Kommissionspräsidenten Romano Prodi i.J. 2001...

This discussion of the ECJ in the context of a project on political representation in the EU responds to the Court's changing functions in the integration process and also to the critique which the exercise of this function has provoked in recent years after the Court objected to constitutional...

It is perhaps a truism to note that ‘the consumer’ is but a role that is played by human subjects. This insight leaves us, as lawyers, with one vital question: how can or does the legal system meaningfully rationalise its encounters with the consumer? Can it, and if so to what way, shape the...

This paper argues that the relationship between law and politics must be reconfigured within the European Union. Dissecting recent crises in Europe with reference to the three ‘fictitious’ commodities of Karl Polanyi, we find that law in Europe has contributed to de-legalisation,...

It is perhaps a truism to note that 'the consumer' is but a role that is played by human subjects. This insight leaves us, as lawyers, with one vital question: how can or does the legal system meaningfully rationalise its encounters with the consumer? Can it, and if so to what way, shape the act...

Sag, wo die Soldaten sind, Wo sind sie geblieben? So begann die dritte Strophe von Pete Seeger's legendärem Blumen-Lied. Wie sollte die bittere Melancholie seiner Lyrik zu dem turn zu governance passen, den die Europapolitik offiziös unter dem Kommissionspräsidenten Romano Prodi i.J. 2001...