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The European Court of Justice has long played a powerful role promoting deeper European integration, but today the Court faces unprecedented challenges and criticism. This book explores whether the ECJ can sustain its role as a motor of integration in the face of these countervailing forces.
It was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.
Sommario
1. Introduction – the European Court of Justice and legal integration: perpetual momentum? 2. Who cares about nationality? The path-dependent case law of the ECJ from goods to citizens 3. The reference points of EU judicial politics 4. The political foundations of judicial independence in the European Union 5. Do ECJ judges all speak with the same voice? Evidence of divergent preferences from the judgments of chambers 6. Activism relocated. The self-restraint of the European Court of Justice in its national context 7. Rights adjudication and constitutional pluralism in Germany and Europe 8. With Luxembourg in mind ... the remaking of national policies in the face of ECJ jurisprudence 9. Perpetual momentum: directed and unconstrained?
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Susanne K. Schmidt is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bremen.
R. Daniel Kelemen is Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.
Riassunto
The European Court of Justice has long played a powerful role promoting deeper European integration, but today the Court faces unprecedented challenges and criticism. This book explores whether the ECJ can sustain its role as a motor of integration in the face of these countervailing forces. It was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.
