Author Description

Reference to scientific expertise and regulatory decision-making has become common also within the European legal system. This trend has become especially important in the context of the European policy of completing and managing the internal market. The present volume comprises contributions by American, British, French and German lawyers and social scientists as well as officials and standardization experts from France and Brussels. It deals with general problems of integrating scientific expertise into legal framework of risk regulation. Its focus, however, are the specifics of European regulatory policies which are discussed with the examples of foodstuffs law and standardization. The volume is addressed to academics and practitioners interested in the understanding and functioning of European regulatory policies. Christian Joerges is a Co-director of the Centre of European Law and Politics in Bremen and part-time professor at the European University Institute, Florence; Karl-Heinz Ladeur was until 1996 professor at the EUI and now teaches law at the University of Hamburg; Ellen Vos is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for European Law and Politics.