The book examines the operation of EU judicial and extrajudicial review mechanisms. It confronts the formal legal rules with evolving practices, relying on rich statistical data and internal documents. It covers detailed institutional arrangements, the standard of review, the types of cases and litigants, and the activity of the parties in the process. It makes visible the diverse but complementary ways in which the mechanisms enhance the authority of EU legal acts and processes. It also reveals that scarce resources and imprecise rules restrict the scope of review and hinder independent empirical investigations. Finally, it casts light on how a differentiated system of judicial and extra-judicial review can accommodate various kinds of technical and political discretion exercised by EU institutions and bodies.

Michał Krajewski will be joined by discussants Michal Bobek (former Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the EU), Ian Harden (University of Sheffield, former Secretary General of the European Ombudsman), Minna Heikkila (Head of the Legal Service of the European Chemical Agency), Annalisa Volpato (Assistant Professor, Maastricht University) and Merijn Chamon (Assistant Professor, Maastricht University). The event will be chaired by Mariolina Eliantonio (Professor of European and Comparative Administrative Law and Procedure, Maastricht University).

This will be a hybrid event with the possibility to attend online or in-person at UM Campus.