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 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