The book takes stock of the on-going 'methodological turn' in the field of EU law scholarship. Introducing a new generation of scholars of the European Court of Justice from law, history, sociology, political science and linguistics, it provides a set of novel interdisciplinary research strategies and empirical materials for the study of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The twelve case studies included challenge the usual top-down approach to EU law and the CJEU and instead suggest a more localized and fine-grained observation of the socio-legal actors and practices involved in the making of CJEU case-law. Moving beyond mainstream legal scholarship and the established 'grand narratives' of legal integration, the volume provides a more historically-informed and sociologically-grounded account of the EU law's uneven embeddedness in Europe's economies and societies.
1. From methodological shifts to EU law's embeddedness Mikael Rask Madsen, Fernanda G. Nicola and Antoine Vauchez; 2. 'In this beuraucratic silence EU law dies': fieldwork and the (non)-practice of EU law in national courts Tommaso Pavone; 3. How to nail down a cloud: CJEU's construction of jurisprudential authority from a network perspective Amalie Frese; 4. EU law mobilization: lessons from a bottom-up approach Jos Hoevenaars; 5. Litigation strategies and the political framing of EU law: exploring the archives of a trade union lawyer in the Viking and Laval cases Julien Louis; 6. Inquiring into conceptual practices: legal controversy at the Court of Justice of the European Union Vincent Réveillère; 7. Through the lens of language: uncovering the collaborative nature of Advocates General's opinions Karen McAuliffe, Liana Muntean and Virginia Mattioli; 8. A sense of common purpose: on the role of case assignment and the Judge-Rapporteur at the European Court of Justice Christoph Krenn; 9. Judge biographies as a methodology to grasp the dynamics inside the CJEU and its relationship with EU member states Vera Fritz; 10. The genesis of the institution within the institution: studying the mobilization for the creation of the Court of First Instance Lola Avril; 11. Re-constructing the construction of Laval: studying EU law as a social interpretive process Jens Arnholtz; 12. Judicially backed mutation: practices at the legal frontiers of the Eurozone crisis Nicholas Haagensen; 13. Media attention for CJEU case law: measurement, data collection, and analysis of case salience data Julian Dederke; 14. Embedding decoloniality in empirical EU studies Iyiola Solanke.
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