The Rule of Law in European Integration: The Path of the Schuman Plan

This pathbreaking book "remains the definitive analysis of the first crucial decade of the formulation of the Constitution of Europe by at the time a little-known court. It must be read by all serious scholars of European integration." — Malcolm M. Feeley (University of California at Berkeley), from the new Foreword

In the early days of what would become the European Union, the new entity had a weak and ill-defined legislature and executive. And the European Court of Justice, whose decisi…