Welcome everybody. Welcome to this one round of the European Research Seminar series.

Apologies to those of you who were here since 5 o'clock, apologies for that confusion.

So we're very lucky this evening. We've got Professor Kenneth Armstrong, who's walked all the way over from the rural faculty no from Sydney from further afield okay from Sussex College where Kenneth is a

fellow and Kenneth holds the chair of European law here at Cambridge and I won't go

through his long list of publications and he's got quite a diverse range of interests.

But today I think he's going to speak on the topic

which connects European integration theories

with his work in the field of European law.

Now, the title we've got down is New Governance

in the European Union, an empirical and conceptual critique.

Kenneth, thank you very much and over to you.

Thanks, Chris.

There is an actual paper behind this and it was a paper that was done as a fashire for Dave Trubeck,

who some of you may be familiar with, one of the leading figures, critical

legal studies in the US.

And Dave's work covers a whole range of different sorts of areas.

But he became very interested in Europe in the more recent phase of his work and one of his particular occupation

preoccupations was European governance and what became sort of known as new governance and I

used the opportunity of this fesscherick to try and engage Dave's work, and particularly to try and address

what I saw as some of the slippages in the literature and the need for a little bit

of tidying up of the phenomenon of new governance in the European Union.

And really, along two dimensions. One was, if there was such a thing as new governance

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