Failures of Others - Justifying Institutional Expansion in Comparative Public

This book offers a new legal account of arguments from failure --arguments that an institution must expand its powers because another institution is failing in some way 'to do its job'.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Why Failure Matters - And What Follows from That: 1. What are arguments failure and when might we need them?; 2. Safe, legal and rare: the case for and against arguments from failure; 3. Proportionality; 4. Structural reform litigation in domestic courts; 5. A framework for structural reform litigation; 6. Failure and legal innovation: arguments from failure as judicial trumps; Part III. 7. Arguments from failure in international law; 8. Efficiency and failure in the European union; 9. Conclusion and perspectives; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Michaela Hailbronner holds the Chair for German and International Public Law and Comparative Law at the University of Münster, Germany. She has published widely on these subjects, with her 2014 article on German constitutionalism winning the inaugural best paper award of the International Journal of Constitutional Law. She is  Co-President of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S).

Product details

• Authors: Michaela (University of Munster) Hailbronner, Hailbronner Michaela
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.10.2025
• EAN: 9781009646666
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0964666-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / Constitutional, Public International Law, comparative law, Jurisprudence & general issues, Jurisprudence and general issues, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Administrative law, general