Technocracy and the Law

Alessandra Arcuri is Professor of Inclusive Global Law and Governance at the Erasmus School of Law and Erasmus Initiative Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity, at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Florin Coman-Kund is Assistant Professor of European Union and Public International Law, Erasmus School of Law, at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Foreword by Paolo Davide Farah Introduction: Breaking Taboes, Talking Accountability PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON EXPERTISE AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN MULTILEVEL LAW AND GOVERNANCE 1. Conceptualizing Expert Accountability: Towards Virtue 2. Expert Accountability and the Rule of Law: Intertwinement of Normative and Functional Standards? 3. Three Dimensions of Accountability for Global Technocracy PART II: EXPERTISE AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL LAW AND GOVERNANCE 4. Contesting the Monetary Policies of the European Central Bank 5. Technocratic Governance at the Centre of the European Economic and Monetary Union – Exploring the Accountability of Expert-Based Decisionmaking in the European Central Bank 6. The Re-Organization of the FATF as an International Legal Person and the Promises and Limits to Accountability PART III: EXPERTISE AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND (FOOD) SAFETY LAW AND GOVERNANCE 7. Expertise, Trust and Accountability in Food Safety: The Evolving Role of the World Trade Organization - A Case Study of the Japan-Korea Dispute over the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster 8. Transnational Radiological Standards in Domestic Contexts 9. From Contestation to Accountability in EU Pesticides Regulation? The Case of Glyphosate 10. The Value Free Ideal of Science and Non-Epistemic Values in Regulatory Toxicology PART IV: EXPERTISE AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN DIGITIZATION AND DATA PROTECTION GOVERNANCE 11. The Concept of Accountability in the Context of the Evolving Role of Enisa in Data Protection, Eprivacy, and Cybersecurity 12. Holding Europol Accountable: The Promise and Challenges of (Hybrid) Multilevel Accountability