{"product_id":"9781610272018","title":"The Rule of Law in European Integration: The Path of the Schuman Plan","description":"This pathbreaking book \"remains the definitive analysis of the first crucial decade of the formulation of the Constitution of Europe by at the time a little-known court. It must be read by all serious scholars of European integration.\" - Malcolm M. Feeley (University of California at Berkeley), from the new Foreword. \u003cp\u003eIn the early days of what would become the European Union, the new entity had a weak and ill-defined legislature and executive. And the European Court of Justice, whose decisions, actions, and even inactions subtly paved the way to a continent's integration. \"Scheingold showed that its efforts, deftly melding law and politics, were a success beyond mere dispute-resolution and development of legal doctrine,\" writes Feeley in the new introduction to this classic study. \"He was well aware that he was present at the creation of a powerful new institution. Yet he stood virtually alone in seeing what such an institution, using its power this way, could realize in terms of political integration. The resulting book was a masterpiece.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe formative years of the EU relied on consensus and legal processes, and an emerging, agile Court-but not on the predictable analogy to federalization as in U.S. Constitutional law-to evolve integration and respect for a higher authority than national law. Scheingold reveals these insights by examining political activity with his in-the-trenches research more than by the customary analysis of doctrine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresented in a new, affordable printing with modern formatting and the new Foreword, the book is part of the Classics of Law \u0026amp; Society Series from Quid Pro Books. It embeds the original pagination, to enhance referencing and citations from previous printings and to allow continuity with the new digital edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quid Pro LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47065997476080,"sku":"9781610272018","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781610272018_p0.jpg?v=1763839594","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781610272018","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}