Through several reports, the European Commission stressed the view that the constitutive rules of liberal professions might be illegimate protections against competition : therefore, as an example, alleviating the traditional rules organizing the profession of lawyers within a professional order...

This chapter develops an analytic framework for understanding how the economic theory of contracts applies to multi-level governance and what these theories suggest with respect to the selection of a contractual approach. It begins with an overview of the relevant theories, presents an analytic...