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Past and Future of EU Law The Classics of EU Law Revisited on the 50th Anniversary of the Rome Treaty

Author: Miguel Poiares Maduro; Loic Azoulai
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781841137124
Published In: February 2010
Format: Paperback , 526 pages
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This revisits, in a new light, some of the classic cases which constitute the foundations of the EU legal order and is timed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty establishing a European Economic Community. Its broader purpose, however, is to discuss the future of the EU legal order by examining, from a variety of different perspectives, the most important judgments of the ECJ which established the foundations of the EU legal order. The tone is neither necessarily celebratory nor critical, but relies on the viewpoint of the distinguished line-up of contributors - drawn from among former and current members of the Court (the view from within), scholars from other disciplines or lawyers from other legal orders (the view from outside), and two different generations of EU legal scholars (the classics revisit the classics and a view from the future). Each of these groups will provide a different perspective on the same set of selected judgments. In each short essay, questions such as 'what would have EU law been without this judgment of the Court? what factors might have influenced it?; did the judgment create expectations which were not fully fulfilled?' and so on, are posed and answered. The result is a profound, wide-ranging and fresh examination of the 'founding cases' of EU law.

Miguel Poiares Maduro is Professor and Director of the Global Governance Programme at the European University Institute and Visiting Professor at Yale Law School.

Loïc Azoulai is a former Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the EC, and is currently Professor of Public Law at the University of Panthéon-Assas (Paris-II).

I cannot think of another book that presents and explains the foundational judgments of the Court in such a clear and lively way...an excellently presented précis of current and past mainstream doctrinal thought.
Gareth Davies
European Law Review
Volume 37, 2012

... an authoritative work in the bibliography on landmark decisions of the Court of Justice ... this volume contains contributions that involve essential methodological issues for any solid research in the field of EU law.
Mihai Banu
Revista Romana de drept European
No 3, 2011

This is one of those books that has an undeniably magical side to it, despite the fact that the law should obviously be an austere discipline.
[The book] give[s] life to an 'ideal interpretation' of the European Court of Justice's most important decisions and which, from a variety of points of view, enable[s] the reader to establish an informed opinion on the basis of a balanced calculation of past events.
Michel Theys
Agence Europe: Bulletin Quotedien Europe
27th April 2010

This collection is an enjoyable read.
Marc Jacob
European Law Books Website
October 2010