Towards a legally plausible theory of judicialization in the European Union

EU law; EU studies; interdisciplinarity; Judicialization; law and politics; Sociology and Political Science; Political Science and International Relations

Abstract :

[en] This article examines the development of judicialization literature in the EU arguing that–in spite of the obvious advantages of inter-disciplinary collaboration–scholarship on judicialization in law and political science is drafting apart in the 21st Century. While early political science research on the European Courts found theoretical inspiration in legal research, law and political science have increasingly diverging epistemological and methodological starting points. As the article argues, using prominent papers, this results in both disciplines producing partial accounts of judicial change with limited external validity. The article concludes by offering routes to improving the inter-disciplinary foundations of judicialization research.

Disciplines :

Law, criminology & political science: Multidisciplinary, general & others

Author, co-author :

Bois, Julien ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Cité

Dawson, Mark ; EU Law and Governance, Hertie School (Berlin), Berlin, Germany

Language :

English

Title :

Towards a legally plausible theory of judicialization in the European Union

Publication date :

2023

Journal title :

Journal of European Integration

ISSN :

0703-6337

eISSN :

1477-2280

Publisher :

Routledge

Pages :

1-20

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07036337.2023.2190104

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