The principal thesis of the book regarding the underlying genesis of the reforms of the appointments procedures for these courts is more than plausible, whoever was responsible for their adoption, while the accompanying narrative and analysis of the new procedures and their operation provide, and will provide, an invaluable resource for students of European judicial structures and functioning for years to come.
Mitchel de S.-O.-l'E. Lasser is the Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law, Director of Graduate Studies, and co-directs the Cornell Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law in Paris. He teaches and writes in the areas of comparative law, law of the European Union, comparative constitutional law, and judicial process.