The book titled “Corporate Power and Regulation. Consumers and the Environment in the European Union” (Palgrave MacMillan) takes a fresh look at corporate power in the regulatory process. It examines how corporations seek to prevent, shape, make or revoke regulation. The central argument is that in doing so, corporations utilize distinct power resources as experts, innovators and operators. Empirically, the book covers European consumer and environmental policies, and conducts case studies on the chemical, paper, home appliance, ICT and electricity industries.
A separate chapter is dedicated to the assumption that Brexit will lead to an unprecedented result of EU regulation being lifted, and how this could put corporate power in regulation at risk.Sandra Eckert is Assistant Professor for Politics in the European Multilevel System at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Sandra taught at the Universities of Berlin, Freiburg, Mannheim and Osnabrück. From April 2019 to September 2019, Prof. Eckert is holding a guest lectureship at Technische Universität Darmstadt

The book deals with particular aspects of normative phenomena: deontic modality, practical reasons, and the relation between evaluative and descriptive/natural properties, leaving ample time for methodological remarks and open problems.

The JQYA is proud to announce that our Fellow, the pharmacist Dr. Daniel Merk, has been awarded with the Phoenix Pharmazie Wissenschaftspreis 2018. His award-winning work „A dual modulator of farnesoid X receptor and soluble epoxide hydrolase to counter non-alcoholic steatohepatitis„ was published in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2017, 60(18), 7703-7724 and describes a novel active substance for treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.Dr. Merk is a head of young investigators group at the Pharmacy Department of the Goethe University and a fellowship holder of the ETH Zürich.We congratulate Dr. Merk sincerely and wish all the best further on!