Relative Authority of Judicial and Extra-Judicial Review: EU Courts, Boards of Appeal, Ombudsman

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Do independent boards of appeal set up in some EU agencies and the European Ombudsman compensate for the shortcomings of EU Courts This book examines the operation of EU judicial and extra-judicial review mechanisms. It confronts the formal legal rules with evolving practices, relying on rich statistical data and internal documents. It covers detailed institutional arrangements, the standard of review, the types of cases and litigants, and the activity of the parties in the process. It makes visible the diverse but complementary ways in which the mechanisms enhance the authority of EU legal acts and processes. It also reveals that scarce resources and imprecise rules restrict the scope of review and hinder independent empirical investigations. Finally, it casts light on how a differentiated system of judicial and extra-judicial review can accommodate various kinds of technical and political discretion exercised by EU institutions and bodies.

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The book is a courageous and thorough tour de force that covers the challenges and limitations faced by the EUs current court system, and how its parallel expansion through the creation of panels, boards of appeal and other adjudicative bodies has contributed to reinforce the rule of law in the EU legal order. -- Daniel Sarmiento * EU Law Live *
Relative Authority of Judicial and Extra-Judicial Review is a timely and impressive study the book is a success. -- Richard Kirkham, University of Sheffield * Public Law *

Author Bio

Michal Krajewski is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.