This essay argues that the universality claim is a claim concerning two different domains: first, the domain of the political and, second, the domain of foreign policy. The domain of the political gives us a theory of political rights as we find them in Rawls' Political Liberalism. The domain of...

Any abstract account of a field of law must make generalizations that are both faithful to the legal materials and appropriate to the subject matter's aims. The uniqueness and fluidity of the European Union's institutions makes such generalizations very difficult. A common theoretical approach...

The contributions in this volume investigate interconnected aspects of the democratic deficit in global constitutionalism.The commonly shared question is the following: to what extent, if any, a global (or cosmopolitan) shift of international law can proceed absent a transnational democratic...

The withdrawal of the UK from the EU (or ‘Brexit') as a result of the referendum of June 23 is certain to have profound implications for all aspects of the law of the United Kingdom. As soon as the result became known, legal commentators rushed to offer some kind of guidance. Surprising as it...

Public debate in the run up to the Referendum of 23 June has focused on many economic issues, including the status of the United Kingdom as a member state outside the Eurozone. Those campaigning to leave have argued that the government ‘has given away its veto' over the further integration of...

Proposals for Eurozone reform aim to complete its institutional architecture by securing stability without creating moral hazard. Such policy arguments inevitably rely, however, on implicit assumptions about justice, or on what is owed to whom. A common assumption is that member states are...

The question if Land Development Agreements are subject to EU public procurement law has been a very difficult one. In principle the sale of land is not caught by the relevant Directives. Nevertheless, since the European Court of Justice’s judgment in Auroux, it has been accepted that...