Free Trade has always been highly contested, but both the arguments about it and the treaties that regulate it have changed dramatically since the Second World War. Under the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) regime, objections to free trade were essentially economic, and...

“Conflicts‐law constitutionalism” seeks to defend the rule of law and the idea of law‐mediated legitimacy in the postnational constellation. The idea of its “three dimensional” differentiation responds to general developments of legal systems, namely the emergence of legal frameworks...