Regulating Risks in the European Union: The Co-production of Expert and Executive Power

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Dr Maria Weimer (University of Amsterdam) Anniek de Ruijter (University of Amsterdam)

Regulating Risks in the European Union

The Co-production of Expert and Executive Power

Dr Maria Weimer (University of Amsterdam), Anniek de Ruijter (University of Amsterdam)

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English

Hart Publishing
05 October 2017

EU & European institutions; Public health & safety law; Public health & preventive medicine

A growing body of EU law and regulation is preoccupied with the protection of EU citizens from health and environmental risks. Which chemicals are safe and should be allowed on the market? How should the EU respond to public health emergencies, such as Ebola and other infectious diseases? Regulatory responses to these questions confront deep uncertainty, limited knowledge and societal contestation. In a time where the use of scientific expertise in EU policy-making is particularly contested, this book offers a timely contribution to both the academic and policy debate on the role of specialised expertise in EU public decision-making on risk and technology as well as on its intertwinement with executive power. It draws on insights from law, governance, political sciences, and science and technology studies, bringing together leading scholars in this field. Contributions are drawn together by a shared theoretical perspective, namely by their use of co-production as an analytical lens to study the intricate interplay between techno-scientific expertise and EU executive power. By so doing, this collection produces highly original insights into the development of the EU administrative state, as well as into the role of regulatory science in its construction. This book will be useful to scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers working on risk regulation and the role of expertise in public decision-making.

Edited by: Dr Maria Weimer (University of Amsterdam), Anniek de Ruijter (University of Amsterdam)
Imprint: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 605g
ISBN: 9781849468794
ISBN 10: 1849468796
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 05 October 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Regulating Risks in the European Union: The Co-production of Expert and Executive Power MARIA WEIMER AND ANNIEK DE RUIJTER Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives 2. Constitutions of Modernity: Science, Risk and Governable Subjects SHEILA JASANOFF 3. Expert Executive Power, Administrative Constitutionalism and Co-production: Why They Matter ELIZABETH FISHER Part 2: Practices of Co-production 4. Recombinant Regulation: EU Executive Power and Expertise in Responding to Synthetic Biology ELEN STOKES 5. Defining the Invisible: Between Soft Norms and Hard Realities in the European Regulation of Nanotechnologies TANJA EHNERT 6. Mixing EU Security and Public Health Expertise in the Health Threats Decision ANNIEK DE RUIJTER 7. Constituting Public Health Surveillance in Twenty-first Century Europe SCOTT L GREER 8. Behavioural Expertise and Regulatory Power in Europe HOLGER STRASSHEIM Part 3: Rethinking Constitutionalism: Legitimacy and Accountability 9. Expertise as Justification: The Contested Legitimation of the EU ‘Risk Administration’ MARIA WEIMER AND GAIA PISANI 10. Evolving Conceptions of Science and Legitimacy: Insights from American Administrative Law CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON 11. Accountability and Co-production beyond Courts: The Role of the European Ombudsman MARIA LEE

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).

Reviews for Regulating Risks in the European Union: The Co-production of Expert and Executive Power

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. -- Marco Rizzi * Common Market Law Review *