Revisiting Judicial Politics in the European Union

Edited by Mark Dawson, Professor of European Law and Governance, Hertie School, Berlin, Germany, Bruno de Witte, Professor of European Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands and Elise Muir, Professor of European Law, KU Leuven, Belgium

Contents:

1 Introduction: locating judicial politics 1
Mark Dawson, Bruno de Witte, and Elise Muir
2 Revisiting Europe’s ‘law–politics imbalance’ 17
Mark Dawson
3 Contesting EU law in identity terms 34
Loïc Azoulai
4 Beyond judicial activism: Europe’s judicial narratives and
the polity-cal role of the Court of Justice 49
Antoine Bailleux
5 The judicial politics of solidarity 77
Floris de Witte
6 Judicial politics in the EU rule of law crisis 100
Matteo Bonelli and Monica Claes
7 The Court of Justice: a fundamental rights institution
among others within the EU legal order 121
Elise Muir
8 Unstable structures: the institutional balance and the
European Court of Justice 142
Julio Baquero Cruz
9 Governing the internal market: from judicial politics to
ordinary politics 171
Jan Zglinski
10 When EU courts meet science: judicial review of
science-based measures post-Pfizer 191
Luca Knuth and Ellen Vos
11 ‘Judicial passivism’ in EU migration and asylum law revisited 229
Iris Goldner Lang
12 The CJEU and climate (in)activism? 247
Sacha Garben
13 Judicial control of the politics of differentiated integration 269
Bruno De Witte
14 The European Court of Justice, an able and unwilling
lawmaker: evidence from 920 Free Movement of Persons
judgments 282
Urška Šadl and Silje Hermansen
15 The activism of national constitutional courts in
interpreting EU law 305
Mattias Wendel
16 Comparing the activist claim between Strasbourg and
Luxembourg in the field of non-discrimination 334
Mathias Möschel
17 The role of judges in academic and political discourse 352
Fulvia Ristuccia and Eleanor Spaventa