This book is the culmination of 6 years of work. It began back in 2010 with my doctoral dissertation on supranational democracy. As part of my PhD, I conducted a comparative study of different models of consultative democracy operating in the supranational arena. My research was supervised by Professors Giulio Vesperini from the University of Viterbo La Tuscia , Richard Stewart from the New York University and Jean Bernard Auby from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris . This book would not exist without their stewardship of that thesis project. In 2009, the project that produced this volume began as part of a joint research on “The Relationship Between the Global Administrative Law and the European Administrative Law”. The project, taken on by the Universities of Rome Tor Vergata , Naples Federico II , Viterbo La Tuscia , Siena and Molise, culminated in a workshop at the Italian Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione in Rome in June 2010. The project aimed to elucidate the interactions between European administrative law and the administrative law of global signifi cance. In 2011, the result of that research appeared in a book published by Springer, titled Global Administrative Law and EU Administrative Law . I greatly benefi ted from insights and critiques provided by the coordinators of that research: Professors Edoardo Chiti (University of Viterbo) and Bernardo Mattarella (University of Siena). Between 2012 and 2014, I continued research on the role of global civil society in shaping principles of global and European law, a topic that I had only quickly analysed in the volume published in 2011. The Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) of the University of Coimbra provided me with a postdoc fellowship.