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Legal Scholarship And External Critique In Eu Law, Daniela Caruso, Fernanda Nicola
Legal Scholarship And External Critique In Eu Law, Daniela Caruso, Fernanda Nicola
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The propensity to engage in a sustained critique of EU law marbles several contributions in this Volume and certainly animates this chapter. This generally critical stance takes the present stage of legal Europeanization as a fact and aims to make full use of the possibilities for political and social justice it can currently support, but at the same time it decries its many structural and dynamic drawbacks. In doing so, this critical project borrows liberally from CLS without fear of misreading or misappropriation. Irreverence in this context is a feature, not a bug. The CLS toolkit is clearly useful to …
Foreword, George A. Bermann, Anu Bradford
Foreword, George A. Bermann, Anu Bradford
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European Union ("EU") law is no more immune than any other functioning body of law to technological innovation, and the European institutions need to adapt to such change. EU law has done so in a wide variety of ways, only a sampling of which can be presented in this issue of the Columbia Journal of European Law that we are honored to introduce. The Journal's commission of this Special Issue evidences its keen awareness of both the promises and challenges that technological change presents to Europe and its legal institutions.
Unintended Agency Problems: How International Bureaucracies Are Built And Empowered, Anu Bradford, Stavros Gadinis, Katerina Linos
Unintended Agency Problems: How International Bureaucracies Are Built And Empowered, Anu Bradford, Stavros Gadinis, Katerina Linos
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The ground underneath the entire liberal international order is rapidly shifting. Institutions as diverse as the European Union, International Monetary Fund, United Nations, and World Trade Organization are under major threat. These institutions reflect decades of political investments in a world order where institutionalized cooperation was considered an essential cornerstone for peace and prosperity. Going beyond the politics of the day, this Article argues that the seeds of today’s discontent with the international order were in fact sown back when these institutions were first created. We show how states initially design international institutions with features that later haunt them in …