Paradoxes of European Legal Integration

Focusing on paradoxes and tensions of European legal integration this book investigates four complex and inherently contradictory processes - constitutionalization and democratization institution-building and market-making cross-cultural communication and European discourse and cultural exceptionalism and normalization - to offer a new framework for understanding contemporary European integration. The volume features contributions from some of the biggest names in European legal philosophy to include Neil MacCormick Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth Pierre Legrand Heikki Mattila and David Nelken. It presents a timely interdisciplinary approach to an important and topical area and will be of interest to those concerned with the place of socio-legal processes language and culture in the continuous advancement of the EU project.