The people have spoken and Brexit appears unstoppable. But, we are still faced with an intractable problem: can political sovereignty ever be reconciled with global trade? This paper investigates the impetus for Brexit with an eye to the underlying problem of economic self-determination. It asks...

This paper critically reflects upon what role EU agencies (should) have within the EU's post-Lisbon institutional balance of powers and what kind of powers can be delegated to them. It argues that the constitutional neglect for agencies in the hierarchy of norms established by Articles 290 and...

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...

The Court of Justice of the European Union is increasingly dedicated to the pursuit of economic efficiency. As this article will demonstrate, this has led to diagonal conflict between European legal pronouncements on the free movement of labour within a services regime and national jurisprudence...

This collective paper discusses the many faceted entanglements of knowledge, power and law within, and, even more so, beyond the state. Several eminent scholars in the field offer their view on how the knowledge-power-law nexus should be framed, and what its most salient problems are. In the...

The true governance challenge within Europe remains the resolution of conflict within the Internal Market and the identification of efficacious solutions to its regulatory and redistributive problems. Absent the legitimising sovereign power once furnished by the national constitutional...

pt. 1. Introduction and conclusion -- pt. 2. Science and precaution in regulatory decision-making -- pt. 3. Regulatory practice : pharmaceuticals, nanotechnology and climate change -- pt. 4. Role of courts -- pt. 5. Role of stakeholders.