This is the first book to comprehensively analyze the work of Hans Micklitz, one of the leading scholars in the field of EU economic law. It brings together analysts, academic friends and critics of Hans Micklitz and results in a unique collection of essays that evaluate his work on European Economic Law and Regulation. The contributions discuss a wide range of Micklitz' work: from his theoretical work on private law beyond party autonomy, with a special focus on its regulatory function, to the illustration of how his work has built the basis for current solutions such as used in solving...

This volume collects papers that explore institutionalisation in contemporary transatlantic relations. Policy makers, lawyers, and political scientists reflect upon contemporary understandings of the process as an integration of regimes and orders from an EU perspective. The papers assess whether transatlantic relations in contemporary times form a changed study of global governance through its heightened emphasis upon institutionalisation.

Coverage features a diversity of case studies of interest to a broad multi-disciplinary audience. In particular, it focuses upon two...

This book examines corruption in public procurement in three Member States of the EU, reviewing their different approaches to combating corruption, and the extent to which the transparency principle is applied in their procurement systems. The focus of the work is on the contrast between the unsuccessful procurement legislation of a relatively young Member State (Bulgaria) and its attempt to curb corruption by expanding the scope of application of the transparency principle, and two examples of procurement systems where corruption is limited adequately, without an excess of information...