Labour Law in the Courts

...solid account examining the European Court of Justice...fine example of the new EC scholarship that ought to be read by those interested in comparative legal studies or in the politics of Europe. David Schultz The Law and Politics Book Review June 2002 This is an exciting book, whose content should be of interest to a wide readership, and which will no doubt provide the basis for further study in this field. Tonia Novitz, EUI and University of Bristol European Public Law September 2002

Silvana Sciarra is Professor of Law at the University of Florence.

Integration through courts - Article 177 as a pre-federal device, Silvana Sciarra: community dialogues under Article 177 as a lawmaking process; judges as legislators - testing labour law cases; integration, interdependence and multi-level policy-making; pre-federal and pre-constitutional labour law in inter-court co-operation; a research project on labour law in the courts - exercises in neo-institutionalism. Gender equality - a fundamental dialogue, Clair Kilpatrick: preliminary remarks; the active preliminary reference couple - Germany and the UK; the languid couple - France and Denmark; the inactive couple - Spain and Italy; conclusions. Transfers of undertakings: preliminary remarks, Paul Davies; the European Court of Justice in dialogue on transfers of undertakings - a fallible interlocutor?, Sylvaine Laulom; transfers of undertakings - an experience of clashes and harmonies between community law and national legal systems, Fernando Valdes Dal-Re; Judicial developments of EC social policy and intro-community institutional dialogues - how to define a "legal transfer", Antonio Lo Faro. Lessons from some secondary areas of dialogue: preliminary remarks, Antoine Jeammaud; job centre - an illustrative example of strategic litigation, Silvana Sciarra; the European Court of Justice and the Spanish labour and social security courts - two examples, Fernando Vales Dal-Re; never on a Sunday - what has (EU) law got to do with it?, Miguel Poiares Maduro. The complexities of living with an interpretation prerogative - some observations on an imperfect dialogue, Spiros Simitis.