Beck, Gunnar

The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU / Legal reasoning of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Gunnar Beck. - xi, 473 pages ; 25 cm. - Modern Studies in European Law ; 36 .



Scientific versus heuristic legal reasoning -- The sources of linguistic vagueness -- Value pluralism and absence of a hierarchy of norms -- Precedent and the 'no law' situation as sources of legal uncertainty -- Legal reasoning : the interpretative stage -- Vagueness and value pluralism in the primary materials of the EU legal order -- The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice I : the available topoi -- The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice II : the approach to precedent -- The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice III : the cumulative approach -- The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice IV : the in-built communautaire tendency of the cumulative approach -- The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice V : the steadying factors.

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Courts--European Union countries
Judicial process--European Union countries
Law--Methodology--European Union countries
Law--Interpretation and construction--European Union countries

KJE5461 / .B43 2012