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Revisiting the European Court of Justice

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ID7820105
AuthorsWalter Mattli, Anne-Marie Slaughter
Year1998
Volume52
Issue1
Pages177-209
Publication date1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Organization (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-8183 • E-ISSN: 1531-5088
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/002081898550590
OpenAlexW2147040805
LanguageEN
Citations received90
References cited23

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is widely recognized not only as an important actor in the process of European integration but also as a strategic actor in its own right. In the last four years the literature on the Court has dramatically expanded, nourishing a lively debate between neofunctionalists and intergovernmentalists. But this debate has now reached the limits of its usefulness. Both neofunctionalism and intergovernmentalism neglect the range of specific motives and constraints shaping the behavior of individual litigants and national courts; further, both insist on modeling the state as a unitary actor. New scholarship on public interest and corporate litigants in the EU and on the relationship between the ECJ and national courts highlights these failings. Reviewing the literature, this essay develops a model of the legal integration process that encompasses disaggregated state actors—courts, regulatory agencies, executives, and legislatures—interacting with both supranational institutions and private actors in domestic and transnational society. It distills new data and theoretical insights to specify the preferences of some of these actors and the constraints they face in implementing those preferences

Economic Justice · Economics · European integration · European union · Face (sociological concept · Intergovernmentalism · International trade · Law and economics · Legislature · Member state · Member states · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Unitary state · European and International Law Studies · European Union Policy and Governance · International Arbitration and Investment Law · Law

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Unique citing works90
Citations per year3,21
Citation span1998 - 2026 (29)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 89
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