... 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...

.... The book integrates diverse themes, including: the testing of hypotheses derived from regional integration theory; the ‘judicialization’ of legislative processes; the path dependence of precedent and legal argumentation; the triumph of the ‘rights revolution’ in the EU; delegation, agency, and trusteeship...