European Court and National Courts

Anne-Marie Slaughter is a Professor at Princeton University. Alec Stone-Sweet is Professor of Law at the University of California. Joseph Weiler is a University Professor at NYU and holder of the European Union Jean Monnet Chair. He is Director of the Global Law School Program at NYU Law School.

• Part 1 National reports: report on Belgium, Herve Bribosa; report on France, Jens Plotner; report on Germany, Juliane Kokott; the Italian Constitutional Court and the relationship between the Italian legal system and the European Union, Marta Cartabia; report on Italy, P. Ruggeri Laderchi; report on the Netherlands, Monica Claes and Bruno de Witte; report on the United Kingdom, P.P. Craig. Part 2 Comparative analyses: explaining national court acceptance of European Court jurisprudence - a critical evaluation of theories of legal integration, Karen Alter; the role of national courts in the process of European integration - accounting for judicial preferences and constraints, Walter Mattli and Anne-Marie Slaughter; sovereignty and European integration - the weight of legal tradition, Bruno de Witte; constitutional dialogues in the European Community, Alec Stone Sweet; constitutional or international? the foundations of the community legal order and the question of judicial kompetenz-kompetenz, J.J.H. Weiler and Ulrich R. Haltern; epilogue - the European Courts of Justice - beyond "beyond doctrine" or the legitimacy crisis of European constitutionalism, J.H.H. Weiler.