Interdisciplinary Research Methods in EU Law

Edited by Rossana Deplano, Associate Professor, Leicester Law School, University of Leicester, Giulia Gentile, Lecturer in Law, Essex Law School, UK, Luigi Lonardo, Lecturer in EU Law, School of Law, University College Cork, Ireland and Tobias Nowak, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Transboundary Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Contents:

Introduction to Interdisciplinary Research Methods in EU Law 1
Rossana Deplano, Giulia Gentile, Luigi Lonardo and Tobias Nowak
1 Reflections on methods and interdisciplinarity 6
Luigi Lonardo and Tobias Nowak

PART I UNVEILING THE CONTEXT OF EU LAW THROUGH
INTERDISCIPLINARITY
2 EU gender politics and law: the case of sexual minorities 20
Alina Tryfonidou
3 The role of disability studies in the advancement of EU law scholarship 39
Delia Ferri
4 The promise of judicial biography for the study of the European Court
of Justice 59
William Phelan
5 Behavioural law and economics in European competition law: from
a more economic to a more realistic approach? 75
Klaus Mathis and Martin Meier
6 Legal opportunity structures: social movements in the European courts 97
Francesca Colli
7 EU law: the view from European schools of security 116
Rita Floyd

PART II RE-CONCEPTUALIZING EU LAW THROUGH
INTERDISCIPLINARITY
8 Complementing IQ with EQ: connecting EU law to social psychology 133
Armin Cuyvers, Eva Grosfeld and Daan Scheepers
9 EU law and subsidiarity: lessons from economic analysis of law 154
Roger Van den Bergh
10 The EU rule of law crisis from an empirical perspective: exploring the
contours of a social science that does not yet exist 174
Marc Hertogh and Erin Jackson
11 Democratic backsliding in the European Union: reassessing legal
definitions of democracy 196
Kanita Abazi, Niklas Buscher and Torsten J. Selck
12 International relations scholarship on the European Union and EU law:
ships passing in the night? 212
Annette Freyberg-Inan
13 The application of EU law from the national judge’s perspective: a plea
for an interdisciplinary approach 225
Giulia Gentile, Monika Glavina and Tobias Nowak
14 EU law and law and humanities: a novel method inspired by Paul
Ricoeur and James Boyd White 247
Jeanne Gaakeer and Pauline Phoa
15 Constructivist approaches and institutional constructivism in EU legal
scholarship 265
Dora Kostakopoulou
16 Marxism in EU legal scholarship 279
Luigi Lonardo
17 Riddling in threes, empty fourths, and the invisible empire: Kant and EU law 302
Aravind Ganesh
18 The European Union as a Christian democracy: a heuristic approach 326
Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
19 An analytical framework for EU law externalisation: the EU Data
Protection General Regulation as a case study 342
Stefania Kolarz