Driving European Integration: The Specificity of Legal Rules in Preliminary Reference Procedures

• In Event: Courts and Incumbents

Brief Overview

The paper develops a formal model showing how the Court of Justice of the European Union chooses the specificity of legal rules issued in preliminary reference cases. Empirical implications are tested drawing on text from CJEU opinions 1987-2018.

Author

• Philipp Alexander Schroeder, Umeå University