The Judicial Construction of Europe

ISBN-13: 9780199275533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 294 str.

Alec Stone Sweet

Opis

The law and politics of European integration have been inseparable since the 1960s, when the European Court of Justice rendered a set of foundational decisions that gradually served to 'constitutionalize' the Treaty of Rome. In this book, Alec Stone Sweet, one of the world's foremost social scientists and legal scholars, blends deductive theory, quantitative analysis of aggregate data, and qualitative case studies to explain the dynamics of European integration and institutional change in the EU since 1959.

Recenzje

Stone Sweet, who teaches political science and law at Yale, has been a champion of the study of courts as shapers and interpreters of the constitutional order. In this important, impressive, and scholarly new book, he examines the contribution of the European Court of Justice to the construction of Europe. He shows how the ECJ has asserted its supremacy in national laws and courts and reinforced both the supra-and the subnational aspects of European integration—proving in the process that students of government need not only a solid grounding in history and a decent knowledge of economics, but also an understanding of the law.... It will be impossible to teach about the EU without resorting to this book.