Private Law Theory

ABSTRACT
Private actors as non-institutional, and therefore often overlooked, participants in EU legal processes – A specific focus on their role as private regulators – Private actors such as companies, contracting parties and industry associations, play a pivotal regulatory role in the EU legal order – Classifying the existing legal research on private regulation – A legal-doctrinal approach towards private regulation also needed – Theoretical background of a novel legal-doctrinal perspective on private actors – Addressing the most pressing practical methodological challenges – Specific focus on the problem of accessibility and the difficulty of understanding and interpreting private regulation doctrinally.

Anna Beckers, EU Law’s Dark Private Legal Space: Researching Private Regulators and the Importance of Legal Doctrine, European Constitutional Law Review, volume 18, issue 4, December 2022, pp 657-681. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2022.