The European Court's political power
Subtitle: selected essays
By: Karen J. Alter.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780199558353
Subjects: Court of Justice of the European Communities; Judicial power -- European Union countries; Political questions and judicial power -- European Union countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The European Court's political power across time and space; title: The European Court and legal integration : an exceptional story or harbinger of the future?; title: The theory and reality of the European coal and steel community; title: Jurist advocacy movements in Europe : the role of euro-law associations in European integration (1953-1975); title: The European Court's political power : the emergence of an authoritative international court in the European Union; title: Who are the 'masters of the treaty'? : European governments and the European Court of Justice; title: Judicial politics in the European Community : European integration and the pathbreaking Cassis de Dijon decision; title: Explaining variation in the use of European litigation strategies : european community law and british gender equality policy; title: The European Union's legal system and domestic policy : spillover or backlash?; title: Banana splits : nested and overlapping regimes in the transatlantic banana trade dispute; title: Agents or trustees? : international courts in their political context; title: Private litigants and the new international courts; title: Law and politics in Europe and beyond.