This title provides tools and approaches to study the activities of the European Court of Justice. Using new primary sources and an interdisciplinary approach, this volume develops a more holistic methodology for studying law and courts, especially the Court of Justice.

Claire Kilpatrick and Joanne Scott: Introduction 1: Anthony Arnull: The Many Ages of the Court of Justice of the European Union 2: Antoine Vauchez: From Close-Ups to Long Shot: In Search of the 'Political Role' of the Court of Justice of the European Union 3: Fernanda G Nicola: Waiting for the Barbarians: Inside the Archives of the European Court of Justice 4: Urska Sadl and Fabien Tarissan: The Relevance of the Network Approach to European Case Law: Reflection and Evidence 5: Jan Komárek: Judicial Legitimacy in the European Union

Those researching the ECJ will find in this volume multiple inspirations, together with practical guidance on how to complement their own research with new perspectives ... I recommend this new volume. Accepting book reviews does not always provide opportunities to engage with such inspiring materials.

Presents an interdisciplinary approach to create a more holistic engagement on the Court of Justice Developing critical, large data, historical, sociological, and reflective institutional approaches to the Court of Justice, this title expands the range of methods, approaches, and sources to study it This volume derives from lectures given at the Academy of European Law, European University Institute

Claire Kilpatrick is Professor of International and European Labour and Social Law at the European University Institute and Co-Director of the Academy of European Law at the EUI. She is also the EUI's Dean of Graduate Studies. Before coming to the EUI in 2011, she worked at LSE and before that at Cambridge University. Her interests lie mainly in the law and policy construction of Social Europe, especially the EU's roles. A focus of her recent work is EMU and Social Europe with a particular focus on sovereign debt loan arrangements and legal challenges to those arrangements from those within debtor EU states. Professor Kilpatrick is involved in two research projects at present concerning 'Equality Law in Europe - A New Generation' and 'The Court of Justice in the Archives'. These projects are hosted by the Academy of European Law at the EUI and involve the participation of many EUI researchers. Joanne Scott is Professor of European Law and Co-Director of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute. She is currently on leave from University College London, where she taught from 2005 to 2017. Before that she taught at the University of Cambridge, Queen Mary University of London and the University of Kent. Her research interests lie in the areas of environmental law and climate change law, EU extraterritoriality, new modes of EU governance and the relationships between different legal orders. Among her recent publications is a co-edited book (with Marise Cremona) on EU Law Beyond EU Borders: The Extraterritorial Reach of EU Law (2019). She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2013 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012. Along with Claire Kilpatrick and Marise Cremona, she is currently involved in the Academy research project exploring 'The Court of Justice in the Archives'. This project is funded by the EUI Research Council.

Presents an interdisciplinary approach to create a more holistic engagement on the Court of Justice Developing critical, large data, historical, sociological, and reflective institutional approaches to the Court of Justice, this title expands the range of methods, approaches, and sources to study it This volume derives from lectures given at the Academy of European Law, European University Institute