Judging Europe’s Judges: The Legitimacy Of The Case Law Of The European Court Of Justice

Description

After successive waves of EU enlargement, and pursuant to the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the European Court of Justice finds itself on the brink of a new era. Both the institution itself and the broader setting within which it operates have become more heterogeneous than ever before. The issues now arriving on its docket are also often of great complexity, covering an unprecedented number of fields. The aims of this volume are to study the impact of these developments, examine the legitimacy of the Court’s output in this novel context and provide an appraisal of its overall performance. In doing so, specific attention is paid to its most recent case law on four topics: the general principles of EU law, external relations, the internal market and Union citizenship.

Editors Biography

Maurice Adams is Professor of General Jurisprudence and ‘vfund’ Professor of Democratic Governance and the Rule of Law at Tilburg University.

Henri de Waele is Professor of International and European Law at Radboud University Nijmegen and Guest Professor of European Institutional Law at the University of Antwerp.

Johan Meeusen is Vice-Rector and Professor of European Union Law and Private International Law at the University of Antwerp.

Gert Straetmans is Professor of European Economic and Commercial Law at the University of Antwerp.