Michal Bobek is Professor of European Law, College of Europe, Bruges, and research fellow, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford Faculty of Law. He previously worked as legal secretary to the President of the Supreme Administrative Court, where he also headed the Research and Documentation Department of the Court.

• Prologue: The Changing Nature of Selection Procedures to the European Courts ; 1. Not Quite the Bed that Procrustes Built: Dissecting the System for Selecting Judges at the Court of Justice of the European Union ; 2. Judicial Performance, Membership, and Design at the Court of Justice ; 3. Selecting European Union's Judges: The Practice of the Article 255 Panel ; 4. The Real Test - How to Contribute to a Better Justice: The Experience of the Civil Service Tribunal ; 5. (S)electing Judges for Strasbourg: A (Dis)appointing Process? ; 6. Selecting Strasbourg Judges: A Critique ; 7. On the Democratic Legitimacy of Europe's Judges: A Principled and Comparative Reconstruction of the Selection Procedures ; 8. Can Judicial Selection Secure Judicial Independence? Constraining State Governments in Selecting International Judges ; 9. How Transparent is Transparent Enough? Balancing Access to Information versus Privacy in European Judicial Selections ; 10. Spillovers in Selecting Europe's Judges: Will the Criterion of Gender Equality Make it to Luxembourg? ; 11. Selection, Appointment, and Legitimacy: A Political Perspective ; 12. The Legitimization Strategies of European Courts: The Case of the European Court of Human Rights ; Epilogue: Finding the European Hercules

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