The European Court of Justice and the Evolution of EU Law
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Considers the role that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has played in the evolution of EU law, and places recent developments in the context of longer‐term trends in the jurisprudence of the Court. Rather than debating the question of what kind of institutional actor the ECJ is within the EU political system, the chapter proceeds on the premise that the Court is a purposive actor that nonetheless considers itself to be constrained in significant ways by the text of the EC Treaties, by its own previous body of case law, and in different ways by the political and social context within which it operates. Reflects on the polity‐shaping impacts of the case law of the ECJ, including the effects on EU and national political organizations and on the notion of a European citizen, and, finally, how the Court may or may not be responding to the changing nature of EU law. Various case studies on case law are included. The four sections of the chapter are: Introduction; The Court and the Political Decision‐Making Bodies: Policing of the Bounds of EU Power; The Court and the Individual; and Conclusion.
Source Publication
The State of the European Union: Law Politics and Society
Source Editors/Authors
Tanja A. Börzel, Rachel A. Cichowski
Publication Date
2003
Volume Number
6
Recommended Citation
de Búrca, Gráinne, "The European Court of Justice and the Evolution of EU Law" (2003). Faculty Chapters. 330.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/330
