Abstract
‘Political science has discovered the European Court of Justice,’ as Armstrong notes in an article published 15 years ago, ‘[b]ut has it discovered law?’ Today, the answer to this question is an ambivalent one. Although political science has developed a certain sense of the structural necessities arising from the rules of law and the complexity of the judicial process in a multilevel governance system, it still lacks an approach that conceptualizes it as a selfcontained framework of integration. Here, it will be argued that a contextualist approach could fill this gap in current research. From this perspective, the law itself — not, first and foremost, its most prominent actors — propels integration through a phenomenon that could be best described as a three-dimensional transclusion of the European legal order.
Andreas Grimmel was guest researcher at ARENA during the academic year 2012/2013 when working with this article.
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Andreas Grimmel
'The Uniting of Europe by Transclusion: Understanding the Contextual Conditions of Integration Through Law'
Journal of European Integration, vol. 36, no. 6, 2014, pp. 549-66
DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2014.900758