Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Background of the case. – III. A short journey through the dossier. – IV. An insight into the atmosphere at the Court: procedural documents. – V. Of incomplete narratives and forks in the road: learning from the submissions. – V.1. Paving the way to admissibility: the affirmation of kompetenz-...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Insights into the dossier: towards a contextualisation of the landmark case. – II.1. The actors involved and the “hidden” sources. – II.2. The legal and political context of the case. – III. Behind the famous Defrenne II: the debate between horizontal and vertical direct effect and the...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. The Foglia saga: towards jurisdictional control. – II.1. Foglia I and the facts leading to Foglia II. – II.2. Foglia II: main features and reception in the literature. – III. Paths not taken: reflecting on the dossier and its value. – III.1. A (lack of) genuine...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction: why a database of lawyers at the Court of Justice is an important new tool for socio-legal inquiry. – II. The construction of the database. – III. The Court as a place of confluence. – IV. How to complement the analysis? – V. Concluding remarks.
Abstract: This...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. The lack of legal history of European law. – III. What kind of legal history for European law? – IV. Towards a legal history of European law.
Abstract: European law differs from other fields of law in that it has no well-established tradition for legal...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction: the added value of the archive for legal researchers. – II. Travelling across time and across cases: transversal Project insights.
Abstract: This Article engages with a core objective of the Court of Justice in the Archives Project: how best to...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Case 149/79 Commission v Belgium. – III. The context/case dialectic. – IV. Findings on legal reasoning to strengthen doctrinal research. – V. Procedural practice. – VI. Insight into actors and institutions. – VII. Concluding remarks.
Abstract: In...
