Nik de Boer is Assistant Professor of constitutional law at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the editorial board of the European Constitutional Law Review. He received a PhD from the University of Amsterdam and has held visiting positions at the European Court of Justice, Harvard Law School, and at the Center for Global Constitutionalism of the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB). Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies (ACCESS EUROPE) and an Assistant Professor of financial law at the University of Amsterdam.

• Table of Cases Table of Legislation List of Abbreviations1: Introduction 2: Judicial Review and Democratic Legitimacy 3: National Constitutional Courts' Review of European Law and its Democratic Legitimacy 4: The Rise of Judicial Euroscepticism: Maastricht 5: The Euro Crisis and the Judicialization of Euro-Politics 6: Court-Ordered Parliamentary Oversight and the Euro Crisis 7: The PSPP Ruling and the Pandemic: A Move to Weak Review? 8: ConclusionList of Interviews Bibliography Index

Nik de Boer's study combines empirical research with legal analysis in a unique and fascinating way. The fusion of original interviews, a thorough scrutiny of parliamentary debates and an in-depth examination of the relevant case law offers the international (and also German!) readership an extremely rich and valuable wealth of new insights. The study offers a consistently balanced and differentiated line of reasoning, but at the same time clearly underlines the thesis that the EU-related case law of national constitutional courts actually threatens to unduly restrict the democratic decision-making process that it purports to protect. Alexis de Tocqueville and Édouard Lambert would have loved this book!