Peter L. Lindseth

University of Connecticut School of Law

Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law

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Hartford, CT 06105

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1.

Comparative Administrative Law: An Introduction

Susan Rose-Ackerman, Peter L. Lindseth, COMPARATIVE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 424
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 27 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2011
Susan Rose-Ackerman and Peter L. Lindseth
Yale Law School and University of Connecticut School of Law
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administrative law, comparative law, public law, law and social science, legal history

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Supranational Organizations

In Ian Hurd, Ian Johnstone, and Jacob Katz Cogan, eds., Oxford Handbook of International Organizations (OUP, 2016)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2017
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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supranational organizations, international organizations, European Union, delegation, principal-agent theory, delegation, pre-commitment

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The Paradox of Parliamentary Supremacy: Delegation, Democracy, and Dictatorship in Germany and France, 1920s-1950s

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 113, pp. 1341-1415, 2004
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 05 May 2004
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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Comparative constitutional history (Germany and France) 1920s-1950s, delegation, parliamentary democracy, separation of powers, Carl Schmitt

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'Always Embedded' Administration: The Historical Evolution of Administrative Justice as an Aspect of Modern Governance

THE ECONOMY AS POLITY: THE POLITICIAL CONSTITUTION OF MODERN CAPITALISM, Christian Joerges, Bo Stråth, Peter Wagner, eds., London: UCL Press, 2005
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2013
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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Legal History, Administrative Litigation, France, England, Karl Polanyi

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Comparative Administrative Law: Outlining a Field of Study

Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2010, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 436, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 236
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 03 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2011
Susan Rose-Ackerman and Peter L. Lindseth
Yale Law School and University of Connecticut School of Law
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Constitutionalism Beyond the State?: The Administrative Character of European Governance Revisited

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 33, No. 5, 2012
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 27 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2012
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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administrative governance, constitutionalism beyond the state, European Union, European integration

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Of the People: Democracy, the Eurozone Crisis, and Lincoln’s Threshold Criterion

Berlin Journal, No.22, Spring/ Summer 2012
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 12 May 2012 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2017
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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Agents Without Principals?: Delegation in an Age of Diffuse and Fragmented Governance

REFRAMING SELF-REGULATION IN EUROPEAN PRIVATE LAW, Fabrizio Cafaggi, ed., Kluwer Law International, 2006
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 17 Oct 2004 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2012
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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Self-regulation, privatization, governance, delegation, administrative state

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Book Review: Anu Bradford, The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (Oxford University Press 2020)

American Journal of Comparative Law (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 08 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 19 May 2021
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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Brussels Effect, European Union, regulatory power, technocracy, juristocracy, power-legitimacy nexus

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The Eurozone Crisis, Institutional Change, and 'Political Union'

Franklin Allan, Elena Carletti, and Joanna Gray, eds., POLITICAL, FISCAL, AND BANKING UNION IN THE EUROZONE? (Wharton Financial Institutions Center Press 2013)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 15 Sep 2014
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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eurozone crisis, institutional change, political union, fiscal union, banking union

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Equilibrium, Demoi-cracy, and Delegation in the Crisis of European Integration

German Law Journal, vol. 15, no. 4 (2014), pp. 529-567
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 08 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2014
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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European integration, European Union, administrative, constitutional, equilibrium, demoi-cracy, delegation, principal, agent, mediated legitimacy

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Judicial Review in Administrative Governance: A Theoretical Framework for Comparative Analysis

Forthcoming, Judicial Review in the Administrative State (Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Saskia Lavrijssen, and Jurgen de Poorter, eds., T.M.C. Asser/Springer)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Feb 2019
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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administrative governance; agency-cost problem; asymmetric information; constructivism; democracy; dualité de juridiction, expertise; genealogical method; judicial review; juristocracy; mediated legitimacy; principal-agent theory; process review; regulation; rule of law; technocracy; trias politica

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Technology, Democracy, and Institutional Change

Forthcoming in Colette Cuijpers, Corien Prins, Peter Lindseth and Monica Rosina, eds., Digital Democracy in a Globalised World (Edward Elgar 2017)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 05 May 2017
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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digital democracy, information and communication technology, globalization, technocracy, multistakerholderism, participation, transparency, algorithmic accountability, institutional change, hysteresis, networks, governance, representative government

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The Democratic Disconnect, the Power-Legitimacy Nexus, and the Future of EU Governance

Forthcoming in EU Law in Populist Times: Crises and Prospects (Francesca Bignami, ed., Cambridge University Press)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2018
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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administrative governance, democratic disconnect, democratic legitimacy, European Union, Eurozone crisis, fiscal capacity, populism, power-legitimacy nexus, resource mobilization

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Between the ‘Real’ and the ‘Right’: Explorations Along the Institutional-Constitutional Frontier

In Maurice Adams, Ernst Hirsch Ballin and Anne Meuwese, eds., Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law: Bridging Idealism and Realism (Cambridge University Press 2017)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2017
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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institutional change, constitutional change, Maurice Hauriou, complexity theory, legitimacy, mobilization

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European Solidarity and National Identity: An American Perspective

In Christian Calliess, ed., 'In Vielfalt geeint: Wieviel europäische Solidarität? Wieviel nationale Identität?' (Mohr Siebeck Verlag 2013)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 14 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2017
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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Eurozone Crisis, European Integration, solidarity, identity

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Reconciling with the Past: John Willis and the Question of Judicial Review in Interwar and Postwar England

University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 55, 2005
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2012
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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Sovereignty, the Nation-State, and Integration History

Irish Journal of European Law, Volume 18, Issue 1
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 21 May 2014 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2016
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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Sovereignty, Eurozone, integration, constitutional, regulatory power, governance

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What's in a Label? The EU as 'Administrative' and 'Constitutional'

Forthcoming in Susan Rose-Ackerman, Peter Lindseth, and Blake Emerson, eds., Comparative Administrative Law, 2d ed. (Elgar)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 19 Sep 2016
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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European Union, comparative administrative law, ECJ, democratic and constitutional legitimacy, ESMA, OMT, BVerfG, Chevron, Mead

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Transatlantic Functionalism: New Deal Models and European Integration

Symposium, Historical Analysis of Law, in Critical Analysis of Law, Vol. 2, No.1, 2015, pp.83-105
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2015
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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functionalism, neofunctionalism, historical institutionalism, institutional change, European integration, New Deal, technocracy, technocratic independence, oversight

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Theorizing Backlash: Supranational Governance and International Investment Law and Arbitration in Comparative Perspective

Forthcoming, Journal of World Investment and Trade
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 18 Nov 2019
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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agency-cost problem, agents without principals, international investment law, investor-State dispute settlement, power-legitimacy nexus, pre-commitment agent, principal-agent inversion, supranational governance

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Disequilibrium and Disconnect: On Weiler's (Still Robust) Theory of European Transformation

UConn School of Law Working Papers No. 2013/01
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 27 May 2013 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2013
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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Joseph Weiler, European integration, democratic deficit, democratic disconnect, equilibrium theory

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Europe’s Fractured Metabolic Constitution: From the Eurozone Crisis to the Coronavirus Response

LUISS School of Government, SOG Working Paper 61 (October 2020)
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 Nov 2020
Cristina Fasone and Peter L. Lindseth
LUISS Guido Carli and University of Connecticut School of Law
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European Union, coronavirus pandemic, Eurozone crisis, fiscal capacity, metabolic constitution, Next Generation EU (NGEU)

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National Parliaments and Mediated Legitimacy in the EU: Theory and History

Davor Jančić, ed., National Parliaments after the Lisbon Treaty and the Euro Crisis: Resilience or Resignation? (Oxford University Press 2017)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 11 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2017
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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European Union, national parliaments, legitimacy, scrutiny, subsidiarity, Lisbon Treaty

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The ‘Law-Regulation Distinction’ and European Integration: Reflections on the German Jurisprudence from the 1960s to the Present

Jus Politicum, Vol. 4, 2010
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 26 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2012
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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European integration, German Federal Constitutional Court, Maastricht Decision, Lisbon Decision, the law-regulation distinction, separation of powers, delegation

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The Constitutional Imaginary and the ‘Metabolic’ Realities of European Integration

iCourts Working Paper Series, No. 233, IMAGINE Working Paper No. 12, Forthcoming in Jan Komárek, ed., The EU Constitutional Imagination: Between Ideology and Utopia, OUP
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 09 Feb 2021
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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Constitutional ideology, hysteresis, institutional change, metabolic constitution, power-legitimacy nexus

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Viking's 'Semantic Gaps': Law and the Political Economy of Convergence in the EU

In Bill Davies and Fernanda Nicola, eds., EU Law Stories: Critical and Contextual Histories of European Jurisprudence (Cambridge University Press 2017)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 11 May 2015 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2017
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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European Union, European Court of Justice, Viking, Laval, right to strike, freedom of establishment, cohesion policy, convergence, market integration, political economy, economic history, institutional change, demoi-cracy

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Executives, Legislatures, and the Semantics of EU Public Law: A Pandemic-Inflected Perspective

Forthcoming in Diane Fromage and Anna Herranz Surrallés (eds) Executive-Legislative (Im)Balance in the European Union (Hart)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 15 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2020
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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European Union, coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, executive, legislative, European Parliament, national parliaments, Rodrik's trilemma, Eurozone crisis, fiscal capacity

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The Metabolic Constitution: Legitimate Compulsory Mobilization and the Limits of EU Legal Pluralism

Forthcoming, Gareth Davis and Matej Avbelj (eds) Research Handbook in Legal Pluralism in EU Law (Elgar)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 05 Jul 2017
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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Institutional Change and the Continuity of Law

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 52, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2020
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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Richard Kay, Glorious Revolution, H.L.A. Hart, Maurice Hauriou, Carl Schmitt, Institutional Change, Institutionalist Theory of Law

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Evolutionary Public Law: Constituting and Administering Human Ultra-Sociality

Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law (Cane, Hofmann, Ip, & Lindseth, eds., OUP Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2019
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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cultural evolution, dual-inheritance, administrative law, constitutional law, public law, institutional change, political metabolism, ultra-sociality, principal-agent theory, legitimacy

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Reflections on the ‘Administrative, Not Constitutional’ Character of EU Law in Times of Crisis

Special Issue, Sixty Years Later: Rethinking Competing Paradigms for EU Law in Times of Crisis, in Perspectives on Federalism, vol.9, no.2 (2017), pp.1-17
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 25 Oct 2017
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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Reconciling Europe and National Parliaments: Reflections on Technocracy, Democracy, and Post-Crisis Integration

Amministrazione In Cammino: Parlamento, Note e Commenti, 2014
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 17 Aug 2014
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law
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parliamentary democracy, Europeanization, technocracy, European Parliament, national parliaments, legitimacy resources

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Power and Legitimacy in the Eurozone: Can Integration and Democracy Be Reconciled?

Maurice Adams, Federico Fabbrini and Pierre Larouche, eds., The Constitutionalization of European Budgetary Constraints (Hart Publishing, 2014)
Posted: 21 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2014
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law

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European Union (EU), European Monetary Union (EMU), Eurozone crisis, democratic legitimacy, demoi-cracy, European Central Bank (ECB), banking union

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The Critical Promise of the New History of European Law

Contemporary European History, Vol. 21, No. 3, Special Issue "Towards a New History of European Law"
Posted: 15 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2013
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law

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European integration, legal history, European Union, administrative governance

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Introduction: Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State

POWER AND LEGITIMACY: RECONCILING EUROPE AND THE NATION-STATE, Oxford University Press, 2010
Posted: 06 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2012
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law

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European governance, legal history, postwar constitutional settlement, administrative governance, delegation, legitimacy

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'Weak' Constitutionalism? Reflections on Comitology and Transnational Governance in the European Union

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 145-163, 2001
Posted: 09 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2014
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law

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The Contradictions of Supranationalism: Administrative Governance and Constitutionalization in European Integration Since the 1950s

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 37, No. 2, Fall 2003
Posted: 02 Mar 2004
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law

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European Integration, Administrative Governance, Supranationalism, Transnationalism, Constitutionalization

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Democratic Legitimacy and the Administrative Character of Supranationalism: The Example of the European Community

Posted: 19 Sep 1999
Peter L. Lindseth
University of Connecticut School of Law

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