Politics of Judicial Review

Christian Adam is Assistant Professor at the University of Munich, Germany. His research focuses on policy change, policy implementation and the role of courts and litigation in these processes. He published in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and International Journal of Drug Policy.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Tracing Causal Mechanisms: Why Governments Activate the Court of Justice.- Chapter 2. Policy Misfit and Governmental Litigation.- Chapter 3. Governmental Litigation as a form of Legal Activism.- Part II. Moving Beyond Anecdotal Evidence: The Role of Policy Misfit and Legal Activism in the EU’s State and Policy Regime.- Chapter 4. State Aid Control in the European Union.- Chapter 5. Governmental Litigation, Policy Misfit and Legal Activism in the EU’s State Aid.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.