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9789067041874: The European Union: An Ongoing Process of Integration

Synopsis

Hero worship is culturally hardwired into our psyche and cultivated in our early development by our experience of our parents – a daddy and mommy who are all powerful, all beautiful, all everything. Our eventual awakening to their frailty only intensifies our searches elsewhere for other heroes – both in private and public life. And so it is, too, in our intellectual life: St Sigmund, St Karl, St Jurgen et cetera – Chacun a son Saint… For many, history is still a story of kings, and prime ministers, and generals, and statesmen (and stateswomen). And so it is, too, in our little puddle of European law. For many it is a story of a hero, the European Court of Justice: A St George, armed with constitutional hermeneutics, who slaughtered the dragon of national protectionism, pettiness and what else. The spillover from all of this is that awful, ubiquitous culture of celebrityship which has also invaded, indeed conquered, the long-desecrated halls of academia.

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About the Authors

Jaap W. de Zwaan is Professor of the Law of the European Union at the Law School of Erasmus University Rotterdam and Vice-President of the Executive Board and Member of the Governing Board of the T.M.C. Asser Institute.

Jan H. Jans teaches EU law at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Groningen.

Frans A. Nelissen is General Director of the T.M.C. Asser Institute and Professor of International Environmental Law, University of Groningen.

Steven Blockmans is researcher on the law of the European Union, T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague.

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