How does EU membership affect national sovereignty? This edited volume offers a broader perspective on sovereignty relying on the international law concept.

Examines the democratic legitimacy of international organisations from a republican perspective, diagnoses the EU as suffering from a democratic disconnect and

Sovereignty marks the boundary between politics and law. Highlighting the legal context of politics and the political context of law, it thus contributes to the

An exploration of new institutional solutions to the old question of how to constrain states when they commit severe abuses against their own citizens. The book

A state-of-the-art analysis of the contentious areas of EU law that have been put in the spotlight by populism.