Chapter 9 EU Administrative Soft Law and the Separation of Powers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. Part I Separation of Powers in a Transnational Era
5. Chapter 1 The Separation of Powers and Constitutional Scholarship 33
6. Chapter 2 Separation of Powers beyond the State: The ‘inconveniences of [a]bsolute power’ 45
7. Chapter 3 The Agony of Political Constitutionalism within the European Legal Space 65
8. Chapter 4 Accountability and the New Separation of Powers 89
9. Chapter 5 Trias Europea: Notes on Möllers Three Branches 111
10. Part II Legislative Power
11. Chapter 6 The Changing Role of National Parliaments in National Budgetary Matters in Light of the Increasing Centralisation of Fiscal Policy in the EMU 131
12. Chapter 7 The Rise of Regulators 153
13. Chapter 8 Constitutional Conventions and the UK Human Rights Act : From Parliamentary Sovereignty Towards the Separation of Powers ? 169
14. Part III Executive Power
15. Chapter 9 EU Administrative Soft Law and the Separation of Powers 191
16. Chapter 10 Making a Virtue of Necessity: The Role of Discretion in Administrative Implementation 215
17. Chapter 11 Legitimising Transnational Decision- Making in the EU State Aid Regime 237
18. Part IV Judicial Power
19. Chapter 12 Enhancing the Legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights : Emphasising the Margin of Appreciation Is Not the Way to Go 259
20. Chapter 13 Separation of Powers and the Limits to the Constitutionalisation of Fundamental Rights Adjudication by the ECtHR and the CJEU 275
21. Chapter 14 ‘Make it a Better Place’: Transnational Public Interest Litigation and the Separation of Powers 295
22. Epilogue
23. Chapter 15 Separation of Powers – a Short Manual for the Perplexed 321
24. References 341
25. Case Law 369
26. About the Authors 375
27. Index 381