Introduction: framing the actors of postnational rule-making
Journal: City Research Online (City University London)
Year: 2015

While there may be vast legal literature devoted to dissecting functional actors, courts and forms of private actors and legislative or executive power, legal scholarship rarely hones in on the precise idea of an actor in rule-making. Many of the most significant actors engaging in rule-making in contemporary times are not technically ‘actors’ in strict legal terms. The publication focusses on certain ‘blind spots’ in our understanding of actors in rule-making. It focusses upon practices of rule