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What can the EU do in the face of a full-blown plutocracy, in which economic and financial power merge with political authority? Stay tuned!

Do check out Viktoria Robertson's fantastic contribution in the Verfassungsblog symposium that I've co-edited with Alberto Alemanno, forwarding the idea that EU competition law does indeed have a role to play in protecting democracy in the digital era.

How can we make sense of the return of Donald Trump? WILLIAM E. SCHEUERMAN turns to a neglected book that helps explain Trump’s appeal, despite the electorate’s disagreements with many of his policy preferences: Thurman Arnold's "Folklore of Capitalism": verfassungsblog.de/trump-and-the-…

Calling 'not for a revolution in procedure but for a renaissance in commitment. The rule of law must not be a mere slogan but a steadfast practice' see this fantastic piece in the European Law Journal.

Another fascinating contribution on the relationship between competition law and democracy in this Verfassungsblog symposium co-edited with Alberto Alemanno. See also that by Vicky Robertson: verfassungsblog.de/protecting-dem…

✍️ Our Junior Research Fellow Jack Veraldi and Alberto Alemanno have co-edited a new blog symposium on Verfassungsblog on whether EU law can tackle the challenges of plutocracy. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/8e77pLCC

In the CDCA case, a Dutch court has found that the competition authority was correct in their excessive pricing decision, citing it as a 'textbook example' of abuse of dominance rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-en… For background, see my article: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Now on SSRN! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Back to talking constitutional law and private power, this time at the Law & Social Justice! This work on democracy is inspired by my paper on the rule of law and private power, available at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

A wee citation of my work by a Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly committee. Read the paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… CEU Democracy Institute

✍️📚 The volume edited by Alberto Alemanno and our Post-doctoral Researcher Jack Veraldi unpacks whether and how EU law may tackle the existence and exercise of unprecedented plutocratic power. Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/z9brwtru