The Power of the European Court of Justice

ISBN-13: 9780415627887 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 160 str.

Susanne K. Schmidt; R. Daniel Kelemen

Opis

This text investigates how the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has continued to support deeper integration and whether the EU is experiencing an increase in countervailing forces that may diminish the Court's ability or willingness to act as a motor of integration.

Spis treści

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?

O autorze

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.