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The values of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Authors :
Fabien Terpan
Sabine Saurugger
Terpan, Fabien
Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales (PACTE)
Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble (IEPG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])
Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble (IEPG)
Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes (CESICE )
Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble (IEPG)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])
François Foret
Oriane Calligaro
Saurugger, Sabine
Source :
ECPR Standing Groups-SGEU Conference, ECPR Standing Groups-SGEU Conference, Jun 2018, Paris, France, European Values and Opportunities for EU Governance, François Foret; Oriane Calligaro. European Values and Opportunities for EU Governance, Routledge, pp.109-126, 2018, 9781351037419, HAL
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Routledge, 2018.

Abstract

International audience; Research on the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) generally underlines the Court’s high degree of influence in creating “integration through law”. Supported by the major parties in European Member States, and without outward contestation from the populations of the Member States, the Treaty of Rome conceived of the Court’s role as one of interpreting and assessing the validity of European law. The Court later went beyond these legal bases, but was, despite resistance from some national courts and Member State governments, considered legitimate to fill the political and legal void in this new supranational order. This understanding of the Court, which was first based on analyses by Stein (1981), Weiler (1981) and Cappelletti et al. (1986), has been further built upon by a number of scholars who share a common perception of the Court as a creator of norms and European’s “judge-made law” (Alter and Meunier-Aitshalia, 1994; Armstrong, 1998; Alter, 2007; Vauchez, 2008). Today, the EU is considered as one of the most highly institutionalized supranational political systems in the world, a system developed, in particular, through the decisions taken by the CJEU (Stone Sweet and Caporaso, 1998; Stone Sweet and Brunell, 1998; Stone Sweet, 2000; Alter, 2001, 2009; Kelemen, 2011, 2016, Blauberger and Schmidt, 2017). It has, as Kathleen McNamara pointed out, created a “banal authority” in the EU’s political system (McNamara, 2015, 3). Thus, the CJEU can be perceived as having highly contributed to shaping the EU integration process and has even been criticized for being an activist Court (Beck, 2012; for an answer to this critique: Grimmel, 2014)

Details

ISBN :
978-1-351-03741-9
ISBNs :
9781351037419
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
ECPR Standing Groups-SGEU Conference, ECPR Standing Groups-SGEU Conference, Jun 2018, Paris, France, European Values and Opportunities for EU Governance, François Foret; Oriane Calligaro. European Values and Opportunities for EU Governance, Routledge, pp.109-126, 2018, 9781351037419, HAL
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....e9f8017228a28d55868c8cfc7ac80ceb
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351037426-6