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Center Of Main Interests, International Insolvency Case Venue, And Equality Of Arms: The Eurofood Decision Of The European Court Of Justice, Samuel Bufford

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This Article examines the Eurofood-E.C.J. decision and evaluates its impact on the decisions of the Irish and the Italian courts to open main insolvency cases for Eurofood. This Article also addresses the broader international insolvency law issues that the E.C.J. decision left open. Part II of this Article provides background information on the format and binding effect of a decision of the E.C.J. Part III explores the background of Parmalat and Eurofood and describes the Eurofood cases in the Irish and Italian courts prior to the E.C.J. decision. Part IV examines the E.C.J. decision, its rationale, and its application to …

Constitutionalism Of The European Union: Judicial Legislation And Political Decision-Making By The European Court Of Justice, Christoph Henkel

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The focus of this article shall be the case law of the European Court of Justice. Despite recent proposals as well as other actions of the Member States to reform the Community Treaties, the expansion of judicial review by the European Court of Justice remains the driving force behind the development of constitutionalism of the European Union. In fact, the European Court of Justice and its case law play the most dominant and consistent role in the integration process. In doing so, the case law of the Court of Justice in part reflects the judicial activism comparable to early U.S. …

Introduction - Denver Journal Of International Law And Policy, Thomas E. Carbonneau

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The reconciliation of national law with a transborder standard is at the heart of the European enterprise to create an integrated legal process. Such reconciliation is also necessary to establish a unified political community with common core values. The various cases that are analyzed in this issue address critical questions of law and policy, and demonstrate the court’s progress in elaborating a communitarian practice in the various subject areas.

In the cases that are studied, the ECJ rendered preliminary rulings on previously unresolved issues of Community law. The ECJ has the power under Article 177 ofthe EC Treaty to issue …