Tatjana Evas

Judicial Application of European Union Law in post-Communist Countries

The Cases of Estonia and Latvia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses how the plurality of legal norms operating in the European Union can be balanced to produce a functioning, sustainable and legitimate legal system. It provides an extensive database of 2004-2009 national judgments of national courts in Latvia and Estonia, and offers an extensive comparative review of the jurisprudence of constitutional and supreme courts, as well as providing insight into the jurisprudence of ordinary national courts. An appealing volume for legal scholars and political scientists studying courts and jurisprudence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781409443698
• ISBN-10: 1409443698
• Artikelnr.: 45377155

Autorenporträt

Dr Tatjana Evas is a Research Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies (CEuS), University of Bremen. From 2000-2002, she was Public Interest Law Initiative Fellow at the Columbia Law School, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction National Adjudication and the Coherence of the EU Legal System
Part I The Three-Dimensional Coherence Approach
Chapter 1 Conceptual Framework
Part II Intra-System Coherence: Constitutional Structures and Adjudication of EU Law by the Highest National Courts
Chapter 2 Substantive Coherence: Constitutional Structures and Principles
Chapter 3 Institutional Coherence: Interests and Interactions
Chapter 4 Argumentative Coherence: Justifications, Values and Legal Culture
Part III Adjudication of EU Law by the National Ordinary Courts
Chapter 5 Comparative Overview of National Case Law
Chapter 6 Jurisprudence of Estonian Courts
Chapter 7 Jurisprudence of Latvian Courts
Part IV Synthesis and Conclusion
Chapter 8 Domestic Courts and the Application of EU Law: Sources and Methods of Coherence