Allocating Authority: Who Should Do What in European and International Law?

1. Introducing the Idea of Relative Authority
Joana Mendes and Ingo Venzke

Part I: Empirical and Normative Traction
2. Democratic Legitimacy and Executive Rule-making: Positive Political Theory in Comparative Public Law
Susan Rose-Ackerman
3. In Search of a New Model of Checks and Balances for the EU: Beyond Separation of Powers
Eoin Carolan and Deirdre Curtin
4. Bolstering Authority by Enhancing Communication: How Checks and Balances and Feedback Loops can Strengthen the Authority of the European Court of Human Rights
Mikael Rask Madsen
5. Authority Monism in International Organisations: A Historical Sketch
Jochen von Bernstorff
6. No Institution is an Island: Checks and Balances in Global Governance
Andreas von Staden

Part II: Iterations in Practice
7. The Role of the Court of Justice in Shaping the Institutional Balance in the EU
Bruno De Witte
8. Refining Relative Authority: The Judicial Branch in the New Separation of Powers
Joseph Corkin
9. Judicial Review of EU Administrative Discretion: How Far Does the Separation of Powers Matter?
Dominique Ritleng
10. First or Second Best? Judicial Law-making in European Private Law
Chantal Mak
11. Relative Authority in Global and EU Financial Regulation: Linking the Legitimacy Debates
Maurizia De Bellis
12. Relative Authority and Institutional Decision-making in World Trade Law and International Investment Law
Diane A Desierto"