Platforms govern users, and the way that platforms govern matters. In this paper, I propose that the legitimacy of governance of users by platforms should be evaluated against the values of the rule of law. In particular, I suggest that we should care deeply about the extent to which private...

My article compares and contrasts two critical approaches to the politically liberal, politically secular modern state: the historicist approach of Bockenforde and the Foucault inspired post-colonial, genealogical approach of theorists such as Asad, Cavanaugh, Danchin, Hurd, and Mahmood. For...

This paper examines both scholarly debates and empirical evidence about the normative and sociological legitimacy of one of the oldest, busiest and most powerful international courts in the world: the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). With respect to normative legitimacy, the paper...

The issue about CSR disclosure increases rapidly, while the research related to CSR disclosure found dissimilar results. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of industry sensitivity and company's size on CSR disclosure based on legitimacy theory. The 117 manufacturing companies...

This study aims to examine the empirical facts related to the legitimacy theory within the scope of financial regulation violations and corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD) of non-financial companies in Indonesia Stock Exchange. The data in this study was obtained from the Indonesia...

From the seminal work of Fehr and Gächter (2002), a consensus rises about the effectiveness of sanctioning institutions in promoting collective action. Most observed institutional arrangements, widespread in governments, firms and other organizations, acknowledge this feature and impose...

Exit rights — rights to voluntarily renounce membership in an order or institution, along with all the rights and obligations that pertain to membership — make a critical, but oddly under-appreciated, contribution to the legitimacy of legal orders and institutions of all kinds. This...

This paper discusses the fundamental tensions between economic globalisation and democratic politics in the field of international trade. New bilateral and regional trade agreements increasingly incorporate other “trade-related” policy areas and threaten to constrain state action and...

In January 2016, the Canadian infrastructure company TransCanada Corporation filed a notice of intent to sue the United States government in a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Chapter 11 arbitration over the Keystone XL pipeline. At the center of this dispute is the State Department's...

Governments increasingly are seeking to use bilateral and regional trade agreements to reduce the cost-increasing effects of differences in product market regulation. They also pursue regulatory cooperation independent of trade agreements. It is important to understand what is being done through...