European Community law gave market actors a supranational forum beyond their own state.

Evidence

Mestmäcker wrote that Eu­ro­pean Community law offered “for the first time” a means to fend off “economic power and government impotence” and “expand territorially the sphere of effectiveness of public power.” What this permitted was the separation of public and private law, providing market actors a forum beyond their own state to make their appeals—­directly now to the community level. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 691

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s core thesis on insulating markets from democracy — the European legal order as a mechanism of insulation. — connects to: The EU adopts market language to bypass member-state sovereignty constraints. — Ève Chiapello, Financialisation of Valuation, 106; The Treaty of Rome became a supranational constitution enforcing market rules beyond democratic reach — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 708; The Common Market served as a supranational space enabling national neoliberal policy. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 299

Broader Connections

• The Treaty of Rome became a supranational constitution enforcing market rules beyond democratic reach #expands (0.92) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 708
• The Common Market served as a supranational space enabling national neoliberal policy. #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 299