This volume collects the influential work of Karen Alter analysing the ECJ's controversial influence on European politics. Together, the essays cover the entire history of the institution, from the early days of the Coal and Steel Community, through the activist transformation of the European legal system, to the current period of an enlarged EU. INDICE: 1: The European Court of Justice Across Time and Space; I. The ECJ During the Founding Period of Legal Integration (1952-1980); 2: The Theoryand Reality of the European Coal and Steel Community; 3: Transnational JuristAdvocacy Networks in Europe: The Role of Euro-law Associations in Promoting Supra-National Integration (1953-1970); 4: The European Court of Justice's Political Power; 5: Who are the Masters of the Treaty? European Governments and the European Court of Justice; II. ECJ and its Varied Influence on European Policy & Politics (1980-2005); 6: Judicial Politics in the European Community: European Integration and the Pathbreaking Cassis de Dijon decision; 7: ExplainingVariation in the Use of European Litigation Strategies: EC law and UK Gender Equality Policy; 8: The European Legal System and Domestic Policy: Spillover or Backlash?; 9: Banana Splits: Nested and Competing Regimes in the Transatlantic Banana Trade Dispute; III. Beyond European Court Politics; 10: The EuropeanCourt and Legal Integration: An Exceptional Story or Harbinger of the Future?; 11: Agents or Trustees? International Courts in their Political Context; 12:Private Litigants and the New International Courts; 13: Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959514-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 350
- Fecha Publicación: 17/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés