Developing a sociological informed social theory perspective, this article asks the question why social praxis' of justification has moved to the centre-stage within the debate on transnational ordering. In contrast to perspectives which see the relationship between national and transnational...

REACH is a hybrid which from a legal as well as an organizational perspective combines hierarchy and heterarchy. Such hybridity is however not a particular feature of REACH. Rather the EU itself must be understood as a hybrid, thereby making REACH a hybrid operating within a hybrid. The hybrid...

On the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis this paper introduces an understanding of societal crises as a reduction in the meaning production of social entities, which can either be internally or externally provoked. The emergence of constitutions and, more generally, constitutional...

The present report contains the proceedings of the inter-disciplinary workshop ‘Transnational Standards of Social Protection: Contrasting European and International Governance’, which was jointly organised by the EU funded project Reconstituting Democracy in Europe (RECON) and the...

The central ambition of this chapter is to develop dimensions of a theoretical and conceptual framework for the study of intermediary institutions, such as corporatist, neo-corporatist and governance institutions, in the European context. As such, it is designed to create a framework that is...

Intermediary institutions are difficult to grasp because they are always “in-between” something else. It is therefore hardly surprising that they are typically regarded as mere reflections of structures or interests located outside the institutions themselves. The objective of this chapter...

Global law settings are characterized by a structural pre-eminence of connectivity norms, a type of norm which differs from coherency or possibility norms. The centrality of connectivity norms emerges from the function of global law, which is to increase the probability of transfers of condensed...

The global trade and investment law regime is disintegrating. It is becoming increasingly impossible to speak of a singular regime spanning the globe; instead there are now several regional-based regimes with quite distinct characteristics. A rethinking of trade and investment law (TIL) needs to...