... European Union governance institutionalization judicial governance judicial rulemaking judicialization path dependence and precedent path dependence of legal institutions precedent European legal integration, provoked by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and sustained by private litigants...

... and post-Soviet Russia—from the democratizing tendencies of the Gorbachev and Yeltsin eras through the Putin years, which added counter-reforms consistent with growing authoritarianism. The reform process concentrated on two large foci—judicial governance (including methods of selecting, promoting...

... of social rights abduction of children child abduction copyright intellectual property rights double horizontal effect downloading illegal Internet illegal downloading and governance judicial judicial governance contracts discrimination equality Somek Alexander tort law economic upgrade...

...; second, in a section ‘Judicial Governance and Market‐Building’, the emergence is tracked of the basic doctrinal framework (the Dassonville framework) governing the domain, an analysis made of the aggregate data on adjudication in the sector, and the impact traced of the European Court of Justice's case...

... provoked by the ECJ in the mid‐1960s, and partly by the propagation and diffusion of specific techniques of judicial governance, such as those associated with precedent‐based balancing standards. Every chapter of the book presents evidence refuting claims that the ECJ and the national courts operate...