Europe Reconstructed

Legal Mobilization within the Bureaucracy: Disability Rights and the Implementation of Antidiscrimination Law in Sweden

“…This change in disability policy in Sweden and this new orientation toward litigation have caused increased conflict between disability rights organizations and the state. Disability rights organizations consider, as Anne Orford has shown, that “adversarial legalism is what remains when the state no longer attends to the interests of the people who live within its territory, leaving individual ‘consumers’ to litigate in an attempt to protect their ‘rights’” (, 286).…”

Putting to Work the Uncanny: Historical Argument in International Economic Law

“…Orford and Slobodian concur on the distinction between neoliberalism at large and its Ordoliberal variant, namely that neoliberals view the price mechanism as the proper form of economic regulation-rather than government intervention, let alone state planning-but Ordoliberals place greater weight on the role of strong institutions at the national, regional, and international levels in reproducing the competitive conditions for allocative efficiency and guarding the world market from distortions of decolonisation, democracy, or redistribution. 24 In exploring the influence of these ideas on trade and investment law, Slobodian focuses on 'a small number of European men' rather than 'the routine operation and technical detail of legal practice and institutions'. 25 This approach is not a problem per se for the study of international law.…”