A Bird's Eye View of the EU's Civil Justice Policy Field: Discursive and Institutional Dimensions

Hartnell, Helen E. (2015) A Bird's Eye View of the EU's Civil Justice Policy Field: Discursive and Institutional Dimensions. [Conference Proceedings] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Introduction: This paper provides a macro-level view of the EU's civil justice policy field. More concretely, it traces discursive patterns and examines policy-making institutional dimensions of the field since the 1997 Amsterdam Treaty laid down "judicial cooperation in civil matters" as the cornerstone upon which to erect what former French President Giscard d'Estaing hoped would one day become a European Judicial Space ("espace judiciare Europeen").2

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