Subjects:

EU Law

Contents:

Part 1 National reports: report on Belgium, Herve Bribosa

report on France, Jens Plotner

report on Germany, Juliane Kokott

the Italian Constitutional Court and the relationship between the Italian legal system and the European Union, Marta Cartabia

report on Italy, P. Ruggeri Laderchi

report on the Netherlands, Monica Claes and Bruno de Witte

report on the United Kingdom, P.P. Craig. Part 2 Comparative analyses: explaining national court acceptance of European Court jurisprudence - a critical evaluation of theories of legal integration, Karen Alter

the role of national courts in the process of European integration - accounting for judicial preferences and constraints, Walter Mattli and Anne-Marie Slaughter

sovereignty and European integration - the weight of legal tradition, Bruno de Witte

constitutional dialogues in the European Community, Alec Stone Sweet

constitutional or international? the foundations of the community legal order and the question of judicial kompetenz-kompetenz, J.J.H. Weiler and Ulrich R. Haltern

epilogue - the European Courts of Justice - beyond ""beyond doctrine"" or the legitimacy crisis of European constitutionalism, J.H.H. Weiler.

This volume of essays is the outcome of a project between the European University Institute and the Harvard Law School. The project looks in detail at the application of EC law by national courts and the interaction of the demands of EC law with the constraints imposed by national legal orders and national constitutional orders.

The volume comprises seven country studies which are shaped around a common research protocol. These are supplemented by three cross-cutting studies which draw on the country studies as well as on broader contextual research work aimed at trying to understand the role of the European Court of Justice. The results of this multi-national research attempt to assess the impact of the European Court of Justice on the leading member states of the European Union.