This article discusses the impact of social media and new technologies of participation on citizen participation in lawmaking. This article focuses on electronic petitioning and examines how Uber, a controversial ride-sharing digital platform, has employed a traditional instrument of civic...

Government actions taken during and in the wake of the Financial Crisis of 2008 have generated lawsuits that, somewhat unexpectedly, have made takings law a key vehicle for assessing the government's response to the crisis. This Essay examines these developments and offers three observations....

Efforts to promote Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility (CSER) require an understanding of stakeholder attitudes toward enhanced responsibility. However, little is known about current attitudes on this subject, or the determinants of these attitudes. This study presents a survey of...

The current economic crisis has challenged the democratic model of representation within the European Union. The author mentions three fundamental tensions that characterize the legal position of EU states: First, the tension between national sovereignty and economic stability; second, the...

This paper addresses the role of international law in political communication in the practice of interim governance. It seeks to develop a clearer understanding of the value of membership of an international human rights treaty regime for assessments of the legitimacy of interim governance...

This book chapter focuses on new types of court legitimacy, their limits and which impact they have on the protection of human rights. Courts can gain new democratic legitimacy through stepping into a role as protectors of the people. This can for instance be done through being a definer of...

The highly institutionalized field of management education has been in turmoil. Most business schools are experiencing a legitimacy crisis and have been seeking social approval since the epic 2001 Enron debacle and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Many scholars and policymakers have held...

This Article argues that a transparent petitioning process for privacy concerns arising from new technologies is essential for gauging privacy social norms and legitimating new technologies. The data accumulated from such a petitioning process provides the requisite information and incentives to...

This article considers the application of the general exceptions of the WTO GATT and GATS to investment arbitration under international investment treaties. It suggests that the designated categories and balancing contemplated by the WTO exceptions, along with its sophisticated and established...

EU institutional reforms aimed at enhancing the legitimacy of the EU and dealing more effectively with the complex challenges of globalisation and the risk society, haven't been adequately explained and understood. For large segments of public opinion, technocratic governance by ‘unelected...