Newly published: European Agencies. Law and Practices of Accountability
ACELG fellow Madalina Busuioc takes her work on EU accountability to the next level
'There is an extensive and sophisticated literature on European agencies [...] There has, however, been no book-length systematic study of accountability as it pertains to EU agencies, nor has there been such a study that systematically addresses accountability in a rigorous manner to agencies.'
This is the gap which OUP's general editors Paul Craig and Grainne de Burca identify in their preface and which Madalina Busuioc closes with her monograph on European Agencies. Law and Practices of Accountability (Oxford University Press 2013). The book at the cutting edge of law and public administration is a revised and extended version of Madalina Busuioc's doctoral thesis and came about during her time as postdoctoral researcher and later assistant professor at ACELG. It examines how the accountability system of European agencies operates at both the de jure as well as de facto level, through an examination of legal provisions, relevant case law as well as policy documents and offers important theoretical insights for the understanding and study of accountability in a complex regulatory system such as the EU.
Madalina Busuioc is currently Fellow in Risk and Regulation at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics.