Expertise and adventure: In/formalization processes within EU rule of law capacity building programs

Zerilli Filippo

Co-prime

;Trappe Julie

Co-prime

2017-01-01

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Abstract

This paper explores dynamics of formalization and informalization as interlinked social processes as a contribution to a critical understanding of rule of law capacity building programs in the framework of EU enlargement policy. It also challenges the assumption according to which informality would be a modality characteristic of countries of the “Global South”.