Taking the EU to Court: Annulment Proceedings and Multilevel Judicial Conflict (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of in-depth case studies, it explores the political dimension of annulment litigation, which has become an increasingly relevant judicial tool in the struggle over policy content and decision-making competences. The book covers the motivations of actors to turn policy conflicts into annulment actions, the emergence of multilevel actors' litigant configurations, the impact of actors' constellations on success in court, as well as the impact of annulment actions on the multilevel policy conflicts they originate from. Christian Adam is Assistant Professor at the Geschwister Scholl Institute for Political Science, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Germany. Michael W. Bauer holds the Jean Monnet Chair for Comparative Public Administration and Policy Analysis at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. He is also a part-time professor at the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Miriam Hartlapp is Professor of Comparative Politics: Germany and France at the Freie University Berlin, Germany. She previously held chairs at Leipzig (2014-17) and Bremen University (2013-14) and worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Emmanuelle Mathieu is Lecturer at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Previously, she was a Marie Curie research fellow at the Barcelona Institute for International Studies, Spain This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of in-depth case studies, it explores the political dimension of annulment litigation, which has become an increasingly relevant judicial tool in the struggle over policy content and decision-making competences. The book covers the motivations of actors to turn policy conflicts into annulment actions, the emergence of multilevel actors' litigant configurations, the impact of actors' constellations on success in court, as well as the impact of annulment actions on the multilevel policy conflicts they originate from. Christian Adam is Assistant Professor at the Geschwister Scholl Institute for Political Science, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Germany. Michael W. Bauer holds the Jean Monnet Chair for Comparative Public Administration and Policy Analysis at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. He is also a part-time professor at the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Miriam Hartlapp is Professor of Comparative Politics: Germany and France at the Freie University Berlin, Germany. She previously held chairs at Leipzig (2014-17) and Bremen University (2013-14) and worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Emmanuelle Mathieu is Lecturer at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Previously, she was a Marie Curie research fellow at the Barcelona Institute for International Studies, Spain Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi The Neglected Politics Behind EU Annulment Litigation (Christian Adam, Michael W. Bauer, Miriam Hartlapp, Emmanuelle Mathieu)....Pages 1-19 Towards an Analytical Framework to Study Annulments in the EU (Christian Adam, Michael W. Bauer, Miriam Hartlapp, Emmanuelle Mathieu)....Pages 21-49 The Legal Background (Christian Adam, Michael W. Bauer, Miriam Hartlapp, Emmanuelle Mathieu)....Pages 51-71 Studying Annulment Actions (Christian Adam, Michael W. Bauer, Miriam Hartlapp, Emmanuelle Mathieu)....Pages 73-82 Motivations: When Conflict Leads to Litigation (Christian Adam, Michael W. Bauer, Miriam Hartlapp, Emmanuelle Mathieu)....Pages 83-125 Litigant Configurations: Turbulence and the Emergence of Complex Configurations (Christian Adam, Michael W. Bauer, Miriam Hartlapp, Emmanuelle Mathieu)....Pages 127-153 Litigant Success: How Litigant Configurations Relate to Legal Outcomes (Christian Adam, Michael W. Bauer, Miriam Hartlapp, Emmanuelle Mathieu)....Pages 155-188 The Political Side of EU Annulment Litigation (Christian Adam, Michael W. Bauer, Miriam Hartlapp, Emmanuelle Mathieu)....Pages 189-206 Correction to: Taking the EU to Court (Christian Adam, Michael W. Bauer, Miriam Hartlapp, Emmanuelle Mathieu)....Pages C1-C1 Back Matter ....Pages 207-239