The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), once hailed as a visionary free-trade project, threatens to disintegrate over massive failures of public diplomacy and a sudden surge of popular resistance against private investment arbitration, at least in the form of Investor-State...

This paper explores the theoretical framework of judicial independence of international tribunals, with specific reference to the independence of the European Court of Human Rights. It then argues that independence is a key aspect of the legitimacy of an international tribunal and suggests that...

Discussing the normative arguments for the development of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is difficult but important. It is difficult; as any argument for this development could be detrimental if it seems that it could narrow the scope of innovation in business and becomes a barrier to...

Although theoretical and empirical work on the democratic legitimacy of governance networks is growing, little attention has been paid to the impact of mediatisation on democracies. Media have their own logic of news-making led by the media’s rules, aims, production routines and constraints,...

Multinational enterprise (MNE) subsidiaries are thought to suffer from legitimacy shortfalls when they operate in foreign host countries. These may be to structural factors in the home country of the MNE, within the MNE and in the host country, and institutional distance between host and home...

Private rule-making is widely discussed as supporting institutional policy making and legislation at EU level. The following argues for a different perspective on private actor rule-making, focusing on the autonomy of social realms within which self-governance may be possible. From this...

While most economists are in agreement that China’s currency is undervalued, economists are less certain as to the effect of the undervaluation. Despite the equivocal data, critics of China’s regime claim that the undervaluation leads to cheaper, and therefore increased exported goods, while...

Studies grounded in regime theory have examined the effectiveness of so-called ‘minilateral’ climate change forums that have emerged outside of the UN climate process. However, there are neither detailed studies of the legitimacy of these forums nor of the impacts of their legitimacy on...

Organizational spaces project claims of organizational legitimacy while also constituting physical environments where work happens. This research questions how organizational space and legitimacy are mutually constituted over time as organizations experience shifts in work and institutional...