Role of the Court of Justice in European integration – discussion of influential writings.

Explanation of the preliminary rulings procedure, in which the most important doctrines of EU law have been formulated.

Readings:

• BOBEK, Michal (2014). “The Court of Justice of the European Union”. In: ARNULL, Anthony – CHALMERS, Damian (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of European Union Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 153–177. (freely available version here: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/148886698.pdf) (24 pages)
• KELEMEN, R. Daniel (2016). “The Court of Justice of the European Union in the twenty-first century”. Law & Contemporary Problems, Vol. 79, pp. 117–140. (24 pages)
• Sharpe, Robert J. (2020). “How Judges Decide”. In: ASSY, Rabeea – HIGGINS, Andrew (eds.): Principles, Procedure, and Justice: Essays in honour of Adrian Zuckerman. Oxford: Oxford UP. (https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198850410.001.0001/oso-9780198850410-chapter-5) (21 pages)

Total: 69 pages.