Europe’s Justice Deficit?

Dimitry Kochenov, Gráinne de Búrca and Andrew Williams are respectively Professor of EU Constitutional Law at Groningen Faculty of Law, Florence Ellinwood Professor of Law at NYU Law School and Professor at Warwick School of Law.

• 1. Europe’s Justice Deficit Introduced, Dimitry Kochenov and Andrew WilliamsPart One2. The Ought of Justice, Dimitry Kochenov3. The Problem(s) of Justice in the European Union, Andrew Williams4. Justice, Injustice and the Rule of Law in the EU, Sionaidh Douglas-Scott5. The Question of Standards for the EU: From ‘Democratic Deficit’ to ‘Justice Deficit?’, Oliver Gerstenberg6. Justice as Europe’s Signifier, Suryapratim Roy7. ‘Constitutional Justice’ and Judicial Review of EU Legislative Act, Dorata LeczykiewiczPart Two8. Politicising Europe’s Justice Deficit: Some Preliminaries, Michael A Wilkinson9. Whose Justice? Which Europe?, Agustín José Menéndez10. We the People: EU Justice as Politics, Daniel Augenstein11. Swabian Housewives, Suffering Southerners: The Contestability of Justice as Exemplified by the Eurozone Crisis, Danny Nicol12. Is Transnational Citizenship (Still) Enough?, Justine LacroixPart Three13. The Evolving Idea of Political Justice in the EU: From Substantive Deficits to the Systemic Contingency of European Society, Jirí Pribán14. Justice and the Right to Justification: Conceptual Reflections, Jürgen Neyer15. Justice, Democracy and the Right to Justification: Reflections on Jürgen Neyer’s Normative Theory of the European Union, Rainer Forst16. Disproportionate Individualism, Stavros Tsakyrakis17. Justice in and of the European Union, Neil Walker18. Social Legitimacy and Purposive Power: The End, the Means and the Consent of the People, Gareth DaviesPart Four19. Social Justice in the European Union: The Puzzles of Solidarity, Reciprocity and Choice, Juri Viehoff and Kalypso Nikolaïdis20. The Preoccupation with Rights and the Embrace of Inclusion: A Critique, Alexander Somek21. A Reply to Somek, Andrew Williams22. Taking Change Seriously: The Rhetoric of Justice and the Reproduction of the Status Quo, Damjan Kukovec 23. Victimhood and Vulnerability as Sources of Justice, András Sajó24. Conceptions of Justice From Below: Distributive Justice as a Means to Address Local Conflicts in European Law and Policy, Fernanda G Nicola25. Qu’ils mangent des contrats: Rethinking Justice in EU Contract Law, Daniela Caruso26. Just Fatherlands? Judging the Shoah in Strasbourg, Carole Lyons27. An Idea of Ecological Justice in the EU, Jane Holder28. Freedom of Expression and Spatial (Imaginations of) Justice, Antonia Layard29. The Just World, Dimitry Kochenov30. Conclusion, Gráinne de Búrca

This is a remarkable volume which addresses a long-neglected question about the EU: situated between integration through market freedoms and an emerging constitutional project, how does the EU contribute to the achievement of justice? A set of lively, engaged and scholarly contributions which extend the boundaries of the debate. A must-read for all interested in European Studies.