What characterizes the EU today is that it is not only a multi-level governance system, but also a multi-context system. The making of Europe does not just take place on different levels within the European political framework, executed by different groups of actors or institutions. Rather, it...

This paper examines both scholarly debates and empirical evidence about the normative and sociological legitimacy of one of the oldest, busiest and most powerful international courts in the world: the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). With respect to normative legitimacy, the paper...

The economic impact of a well-functioning justice system has been verified in various studies identifying the strong correlations between the improvement of court efficiency and the growth rate of the economy, and businesses' perception of judicial independence and the growth in productivity....