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Soft Law in Court: Competition Law, State Aid and the Court of Justice of the European Union, by Oana Ştefan. Alphen aan den Rijn: Wolters Kluwer, 2013, xviii + 367pp (£80 hardback). ISBN 9041139974; ISBN 13: 9789041139979.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jessica Guth
Jessica Guth*
Affiliation:
Bradford University Law School
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Legal Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 2014 , pp. 174 - 179
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38. See eg Bacon, K European Union Law of State Aid (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013);Google Scholar deCecco, F State Aid and the European Economic Constitution (Oxford: Hart, 2012);Google Scholar Falkner, G et al Complying with Europe: EU Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005);CrossRefGoogle Scholar Woude, M and Jones, C EU Competition Law Handbook (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2013).Google Scholar

39. Ştefan, O Soft Law in Court: Competition Law, State Aid and the Court of Justice of the European Union (Alphen aan den Rijn: Wolters Kluwer, 2013) p 3.Google Scholar

40. For a recent exploration of judicialisation in the EU, see Kelemen, Rd Eurolegalism: The Transformation of Law and Regulation in the European Union (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

41. For a discussion of the issue in the social policy field, see eg Trubek, Dm and Trubek, Lg ‘Hard and soft law in the construction of social Europe: the role of the open method of co-ordination’ (2005) 11(3) Eur L J 343–364.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

42. See J Guth ‘Evaluating law and policy in the context of doctoral mobility in the European Union’ Doctoral thesis, University of Liverpool; available via http://ethos.bl.uk.

43. Standard EU law textbooks, for example, will cite the Treaties at the top of the hierarchy of norms, followed by binding secondary legislation such as Regulations and Directives, with any soft law measures coming at the bottom, if they are mentioned at all. See eg Craig, P and DeBurca, G EU Law Text Cases and Materials (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 5th edn, 2011).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

44. Ştefan, above n 39, pp 154–155.

45. See eg Hervey, T ‘Adjudicating in the shadow of informal settlement? the Court of Justice of the European Union, “new governance” and social welfare’ (2010) 63 Current Legal Probs 92.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

46. Ştefan, above n 39, pp 236

47. Ibid, p 157.

48. Ibid, p 181.

49. Sanchez Graells, A ‘Publication Review: Soft Law in Court. Competition Law, State Aid and the Court of Justice of the European Union, Oana Ştefan’ (2013) 34(8) Eur Competition L Rev 446–447 at 447.Google Scholar

50. Ibid, p 447.

51. Ibid.