- University of Amsterdam

ACELG Research Programme

The Compound Constitution(s) in Europe

The Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG) adopts a distinctive and dynamic approach to the research of European law, namely in the context of the surrounding legal and political systems as well as wider structures of (global) governance.

ACELG Research Projects

The Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking

ACELG is one of the three Faculty research centres which initiated and carries out this cross-disciplinary project which focuses on processes of rulemaking that take place below the radar of traditional legal doctrine in the interaction between actors including new rule-makers such as experts, regulatory networks assembling administrators and private actors, supranational agencies, standardization organizations, or courts.

Outside-In: Tracing the Imprint of the European Union’s External Actions on Its Constitutional Landscape

Funded by the NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, this three-year research project aims to identify and discuss the implications of the Union’s external actions for its devised internal constitutional structures.