Robert Lecourt is recognised as one of the European Court of Justice's most influential judges between 1962 and 1976. Previous research has drawn connections between the legal doctrines established by the Court in the early 1960s and the contents of the doctoral dissertation on French property...

The widespreadunderstandingthat the ECJ'searly fundamental rights jurisprudence in Internationale Handelsgesellschaft (1970) and other cases was developed in response to judgments of theGerman and Italian Constitutional Courts has recently been questioned.Delledonne and Fabbriniclaimboth that...

A review and critique of Tommaso Pavone's recent book 'The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics behind the Judicial Construction of Europe' (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

As the ECJ's two most famous decisions, Van Gend en Loos and Costa v. ENEL, which established the direct effect and supremacy of European law, are commemorated on their fiftieth anniversaries, attention has also turned to another of the ECJ's early decisions. On 13th November 1964, in Commission...

Robert Lecourt is recognised as one of the European Court of Justice's most influential judges between 1962 and 1976. Previous research has drawn connections between the legal doctrines established by the Court in the early 1960s and the contents of the doctoral dissertation on French property...