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dc.contributor.authorDAWSON, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-29T11:57:15Z
dc.date.available2009-05-29T11:57:15Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.issn1028-3625
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/11416
dc.description.abstractThe increasing use in the EU of soft law norms has created an extensive debate over the centrality of law as the principle instrument of European integration. Under a certain understanding of legality – one that sees the function of law as the provision of stable normative expectations - the development of methods like the OMC appears as an explicit threat. By another, the complex nature of the EU polity - and the functional tasks it must carry-out - places an impossibly high burden on any attempt by the EU to model its conception of legality this way. While this seemingly leaves the EU with a stark choice, the very features – the dispersion of normative authority between different national orders, and the need for rapid and iterative regulatory interventions – that have borne soft law also point towards the development of new conceptions of legality and its limits in a post-national setting. Soft law has both empirically challenged law’s place in the integration project, and demanded a re-evaluation of its contemporary meaning.en
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dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUI RSCASen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2009/24en
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dc.subjectEuropean Lawen
dc.subjectOpen Coordinationen
dc.subjectRule of Lawen
dc.subjectSocial Policyen
dc.subjectSoft Lawen
dc.titleSoft Law and the Rule of Law in the European Union: Revision or Redundancy?en
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