Micklitz, Hans-W. --- "Epilogue: the role of the EU in the external reach of regulatory private law - gentle civiliser or neoliberal hegemon?" [2020] ELECD 374; in Cantero Gamito, Marta; Micklitz, -W. Hans (eds), "The Role of the EU in Transnational Legal Ordering" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020) 299

Book Title: The Role of the EU in Transnational Legal Ordering

Editor(s): Cantero Gamito, Marta; Micklitz, -W. Hans

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 14

Section Title: Epilogue: the role of the EU in the external reach of regulatory private law – gentle civiliser or neoliberal hegemon?

Author(s): Micklitz, Hans-W.

Number of pages: 23

Abstract/Description:

The epilogue discusses the tension between the EU as the neoliberal hegemon and the EU as the gentle civiliser. The EU here is not only the European institutions, but also European companies and semi-public bodies such as standardisation institutions. Embedded in that tension, the contributions to the book show a rather heterogenous picture. Depending on context, substance and procedure, the EU and its bodies can either be civilisers or exercise hegemonic power.