Regulating Risks in the European Union

Maria Weimer is Assistant Professor at the Department of Public International and European Law and a Senior Research Fellow at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG) at the University of Amsterdam. She is also an Associated Scholar at the Maastricht Centre for European Law and an Affiliated Fellow of the Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies (ACCESS Europe).Anniek de Ruijter is Assistant Professor in European Union Law at the University of Amsterdam. She is a Research Fellow of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG) at the Faculty of Law of the UvA and an Affiliated Fellow of the Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies (ACCESS Europe).

• 1. Regulating Risks in the European Union: The Co-production of Expert and Executive Power MARIA WEIMER AND ANNIEK DE RUIJTERPart 1: Theoretical Perspectives2. Constitutions of Modernity: Science, Risk and Governable Subjects SHEILA JASANOFF3. Expert Executive Power, Administrative Constitutionalism and Co-production: Why They Matter ELIZABETH FISHERPart 2: Practices of Co-production4. Recombinant Regulation: EU Executive Power and Expertise in Responding to Synthetic Biology ELEN STOKES5. Defining the Invisible: Between Soft Norms and Hard Realities in the European Regulation of Nanotechnologies TANJA EHNERT6. Mixing EU Security and Public Health Expertise in the Health Threats Decision ANNIEK DE RUIJTER7. Constituting Public Health Surveillance in Twenty-first Century Europe SCOTT L GREER8. Behavioural Expertise and Regulatory Power in Europe HOLGER STRASSHEIMPart 3: Rethinking Constitutionalism: Legitimacy and Accountability9. Expertise as Justification: The Contested Legitimation of the EU ‘Risk Administration’ MARIA WEIMER AND GAIA PISANI10. Evolving Conceptions of Science and Legitimacy: Insights from American Administrative Law CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON11. Accountability and Co-production beyond Courts: The Role of the European Ombudsman MARIA LEE

This masterfully edited collection of essays should appear on any 2018 EU Law reading list. It is an illuminating account of the realities of risk regulation and a powerful theoretical and applied challenge to mainstream EU constitutional scholarship and practice ... Works such as this are precisely what we need.