New book: European Legal Method - Paradoxes and Revitalisation

This book brings together essays by leading legal scholars from a number of European countries on European legal method(s). The concept is used in a broad and open sense as it is subject to development. Both in Europe and in North America there is, and has for some years been, a seemingly renewed debate on methodology in legal research.

09/05/2011

This book brings together essays by leading legal scholars from a number of European countries on European legal method(s). The concept is used in a broad and open sense as it is subject to development. Both in Europe and in North America there is, and has for some years been, a seemingly renewed debate on methodology in legal research.

This collection of essays is a a part of a research project named Towards a European Legal Method: Synthesis or Fragmentation?' funded by the Danish Social Science Research

Council for the years 2010-2012.

The project examines the extent to which it is possible to identify a coherent legal method (doctrine of the sources of law and their interpretation) that may be applied when analysing EU law and the law of EU Member States within the scope of application of EU law.

Introduction

Ulla Neergaard, Ruth Nielsen and Lynn Roseberry

 

Part I. General Perspectives

Revitalising Doctrinal Legal Research in Europe: What About

Methodology?

Rob van Gestel and Hans-W. Micklitz

The Importance of the Instruments Provided for in the Treaties for

Developing a European Legal Method

Wulf-Henning Roth

Where Did the Spirit and Its Friends Go? On the European Legal

Method(s) and the Interpretational Style of the Court of Justice of

the European Union

Ulla Neergaard and Ruth Nielsen

A Toolbox for European Judges

Martijn W. Hesselink

Methodology and Theoretical Disagreement

/Dennis Patterson

Part II. Comparative Perspective

European Legal Method from a Swedish Perspective Rights,

Compensation and the Role of the Courts

Jane Reichel

EU-Compatible Interpretation of the National Law with some

Constitutional Reservations Case of the Czech Republic

Kristina Koldinská

European Legal Method from a French Perspective. The Magic of

Combination: Uses and Abuses of the Globalisation of Sources by

European Courts

Sophie Robin-Olivier

Judicial Method of English Courts And Tribunals in EU Law

Cases: A Case Study in Employment Law

Tamara Hervey and Natalie Sheldon

The book is available for purchase here: http://www.djoef-forlag.dk/vare/8757423776

Sidst opdateret: Sekretariat for Ledelse og Kommunikation // 31/10/2012