Europe's Passive Virtues

Deference to National Authorities in EU Free Movement Law

Jan Zglinski (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-884479-2 (ISBN)

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This book investigates the Court of Justice's practice of deferring to Member State authorities in free movement law, examining the decision-making latitude accorded to national institutions by means of two deference doctrines, the margin of appreciation and decentralised judicial review.

The European Court of Justice has been celebrated as a central force in the creation and deepening of the EU internal market. Yet, it has also been criticized for engaging in judicial activism, restricting national regulatory autonomy, and taking away the powers of Member State institutions. In recent years, the Court appears to afford greater deference to domestic actors in free movement cases. Europe's Passive Virtues explores the scope of and reasons for this phenomenon. It enquires into the decision-making latitude given to the Member States through two doctrines: the margin of appreciation and decentralized judicial review.

At the heart of the book lies an original empirical study of the European Court's free movement jurisprudence from 1974 to 2013. The analysis examines how frequently and under which circumstances the Court defers to national authorities. The results suggest that free movement law has substantially changed over the past four decades. The Court is leaving a growing range of decisions in the hands of national law-makers and judges, a trend that affects the level of scrutiny applied to Member State action, the division of powers between the European and national judiciary, and ultimately the nature of the internal market. The book argues that these new-found 'passive virtues' are linked to a series of broader political, constitutional, and institutional developments that have taken place in the EU.

Jan Zglinski is Assistant Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on EU constitutional and internal market law, with a particular interest in empirical legal approaches. He is a Research Fellow of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law.

Introduction
The New Free Movement Architecture
The Rise of Deference
The Margin of Appreciation: Theory and Practice
Decentralized Judicial Review: Theory and Practice
Proportionality and Its Discontents
Discovering Passive Virtues

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2020
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Studies in European Law
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 240 mm
Gewicht	548 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	0-19-884479-4 / 0198844794
ISBN-13	978-0-19-884479-2 / 9780198844792
Zustand	Neuware