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How does the European Court Reason? A Review Essay on the Legal Reasoning of the Court of Justice

  • This review essay analyses two significant recent contributions to the debate over the reasoning of the Court of Justice (CJ). These contributions highlight the impossibility of a wholly scientific and deductive approach to attributing ‘correct’ outcomes to the Court's case-law. At the same time, their analysis adds significant findings for the debate over the Court's possible ‘activist’ or political role. Following from these contributions, this essay makes two arguments: firstly, that the inability of the Court to anchor its reasoning solely in a deductive form of legal reasoning should encourage the CJ to engage in a more advanced ‘constitutional dialogue’ with the EU's political institutions; and secondly, that truly understanding the Court's reasoning involves a closer analysis of the institutional and personal dynamics influencing Court decisions. Understanding European judicial reasoning may require a closer look at the social and political—as well as doctrinal—context within which European judges act.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Mark DawsonORCiD
Parent Title (English):European Law Journal
ISSN:1468-0386
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Place of Publisher:Oxford
Publication year:2014
First Page:423
Last Page:435
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12089
Release Date:2015/10/27
Volume:20
Issue:3
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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