Legal Certainty in Multilingual EU Law
Subtitle: Language, Discourse and Reasoning at the European Court of Justice
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781409438618
Subjects: Court of justice of the european communities; Law, european union countries; Law, language; Law, interpretation and construction; Multilingualism; Europe, languages
Description: "How can multilingualism and legal certainty be reconciled in EU law? Despite the importance of multilingualism for the European project, it has attracted only limited attention from legal scholars. This book provides a valuable contribution to this otherwise neglected area. Whilst firmly situated within the field of EU law, the book also employs theories developed in linguistics and translation studies. More particularly, it explores the uncertainty surrounding the meaning of multilingual EU law and the impact of multilingualism on judicial reasoning at the European Court of Justice. To reconceptualize legal certainty in EU law, the book highlights the importance of transparent judicial reasoning and dialogue between courts and suggests a discursive model for adjudication at the European Court of Justice. Based on both theory and case law analysis, this interdisciplinary study is an important contribution to the field of European legal reasoning and to the study of multilingualism within EU legal scholarship"--Unedited summary from book cover.