Europe's Passive Virtues

Zglinski's work provides various novel and innovative ways to look at the Court's case law. His well-argued and thoroughly researched book is a must-read for anyone interested in the architecture of free movement law. * Lars Klenk, Administrative Court of Berlin, European Public Law * Jan Zglinski has written an impressive monograph on the rise of doctrines of deference in the case law of the European Court of Justice. The book considers, from an empirical and constitutional perspective, the rise of doctrines of deference in the case law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on market freedoms. It will inevitably become a classic. * Filipe Brito Bastos, Legal Issues of Economic Integration * Zglinski's book is a model example of legal scholarship engaging with social sciences' quantitative methods to describe legal developments as well as making the more traditional normative arguments of the discipline. The discussion of how the Court does and should administer the reach of its case law, and where it should carve out a role for member state institutions, is extremely timely and relevant. * Susanne K. Schmidt, University of Bremen, European Consitutional Law Review * The book presents a major original contribution to EU free movement law and, in particular, the ongoing debate on judicial deference. * Dimitrios Doukas, University of Manchester, European Law Review * What the book powerfully offers is a reminder of why the internal market should remain of central concern to EU law scholarship. While this may no longer be the area where bold doctrinal innovation in EU law is being produced, the very maturity of internal market law makes it a most likely case (as political scientists would put it) for observing how EU law is evolving and how the EU's foremost court is facing down its key effectiveness and legitimacy challenges. Zglinski's book demands that we look again at what we thought we knew about the substantive law of the European Union. There are plenty of EU law books with nothing to say - this is not one of them. * Mark Dawson, Hertie School of Governance, Common Market Law Review *