Judicial Enforcement and Implementation of European Union Law

The potency of the law in fostering the process of gradual European
integration is easily discernable and widely acknowledged. It is largely and
conspicuously revealed by the litigation before the courts of, both, the
European Union and its Member States.

The concern faithfully to give the European treaty the authentic meaning and
scope as intended by its authors permeates the European courts’ judgments, and
the constant theme of the entitlement of those vested with rights conferred by
the law of the European Union to effective judicial protection is omnipresent
in their decisions.

The law of European integration has been uncharted territory. The novelty of
various issues which have arisen and on which the courts have had to pronounce
springs from the originality of the integration venture and is commensurate
with its uniqueness, distinctive nature and specific exigencies.

The writings here assembled allow to trace the starting point since the
inceptive formative years of the growth of a legal doctrine and an evolving
jurisprudential edifice in several areas, to appraise their direction and
constancy and to assay adjustments and adaptations.