Date: 2017
Type: Thesis
Le juge et le travail des concepts juridiques : le cas de la citoyenneté de l'Union européenne
Florence : European University Institute, 2017, EUI, LAW, PhD Thesis
RÉVEILLÈRE, Vincent, Le juge et le travail des concepts juridiques : le cas de la citoyenneté de l'Union européenne, Florence : European University Institute, 2017, EUI, LAW, PhD Thesis - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/49104
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By introducing the terms “citizens of the Union”, the drafters of the Maastricht Treaty inscribed a new concept in European Union law. The denomination of the new concept coincides with that of national legal concepts and of a concept widely discussed in political theory. More than twenty years later, the legal concept of citizenship of the Union has been widely constructed by the case law of the European Court of Justice. This case law then offers a particularly rich field of study for the development of a new perspective on judicial activity. My thesis proposes an investigation on the judge and the work of legal concepts; that is, an investigation on the practice of the judge – the work on concepts – and on the role of concepts in legal reasoning – the concepts at work. This inquiry should be distinguished from classical studies on the judge, mainly dealing with interpretation, as well as from works focusing on power relations between legal actors. In this thesis, I argue that EU law must be understood in its own terms, through an inquiry on the conceptual practices of the judge and I propose a non-formalist account of legal forms.
Additional information:
Defence data: 28 November 2017; Examining Board: Professor Loïc Azoulai, University of Paris (Supervisor); Professor Myriam Benlolo Carabot, Paris Nanterre University; Professor Jean-Yves Chérot, Aix-Marseille University; Professor Urška Šadl, European University Institute; The thesis is awarded the Pierre-Henri Teitgen Prize 2018
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/49104
Full-text via DOI: 10.2870/614827
Series/Number: EUI; LAW; PhD Thesis
Publisher: European University Institute
LC Subject Heading: Judicial process -- European Union countries; Law -- European Union countries -- Interpretation and construction
Published version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/67127