Does private regulation foster European legal integration?

More recently the role of the European regional regulator in the global regulatory space has attracted more attention, opening up a wider debate on the role of regional regimes in global regulation. In particular the slice of the debate relevant for this essay concerns the extent to which regional regulatory systems are drivers of differentiation and can be seen as obstacles of regulatory globalization or, on the contrary, are the pillars of a global system where multiple actors, organized around territorial or functional metrics, contribute to regulatory design and implementation.