legitimacy of the Federal Judiciary—and the role that current orthodoxies in constitutional interpretation have played in … character of fundamental constitutional law; our hope is that the current crises in democratic constitutional legitimacy can … help make salient certain aspects of the relation between popular sovereignty and constitutional legitimacy that are harder …

This paper examines both scholarly debates and empirical evidence about the normative and sociological legitimacy of … (CJEU). With respect to normative legitimacy, the paper identifies and applies three criteria for international court … legitimacy, namely that courts should be fair and unbiased, that their rulings should be politically acceptable and legally sound …

Debates and controversies about the democratic legitimacy of the EU have of course accompanied the Union from the very … beginning. The “democratic paradox” of the EU exists because while committing itself to promote and scrutinize democracy in its … the EU is not a state-like polity, they argued that state-specific criteria of legitimacy, such as representative …

balance that exists between state power, adjudication and legitimacy in WTO dispute settlement. Even more fundamentally, it … mechanism will solve the legitimacy crisis (real or perceived) that currently threatens the international investment law regime … adjudication and sovereign regulatory authority, with the legitimacy of each regime coming under question. Responses to these so …

undertakes such an analysis and in particular, evaluates the legitimacy of China’s exchange regime under applicable international …