R. Daniel Kelemen is Associate Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair and Director of the Center for European Studies at Rutgers University. He is author of two books, The Rules of Federalism: Institutions and Regulatory Politics in the EU and Beyond(Harvard, 2004) and Eurolegalism, featured on Rorotoko, as well as over thirty book chapters and articles. He is also co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics (Oxford, 2007). Prior to coming to Rutgers, Kelemen was Fellow in Politics at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. He has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, a Fulbright Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, and a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He was educated at Berkeley (A.B. in Sociology) and Stanford (M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science).
In a sense, Eurolegalism is a book about how the EU attempts to govern and what impact it has on its member countries.Critics like to rail against the EU’s supposedly massive bureaucracy. In fact, the EU’s bureaucracy is tiny—with around 25,000 staff it is about the size of the administration of a mid-sized European city.With a small bureaucracy like that, how can the EU hope to pursue any common policies across a Union of twenty-seven member countries and 500 million people?The answer is that the EU relies on the rule of law. It creates many rights and other legally enforceable obligations, and then it relies national courts and interested private actors—firms, citizens, interest associations—to enforce them. But in relying so much on law, lawyers and courts, the EU is inadvertently encouraging a judicialization of policy-making processes across Europe.I have long done research on comparative regulatory policy—comparing how the US and European democracies approach various areas of regulation, from the regulation of financial markets, to environmental protection, to consumer safety, to labor market regulation. Much of my research has also focused on the process of European legal integration—examining the role that EU law has played in the construction of Europe. This book ties together those interests.Eurolegalism shows that the EU has developed a distinctive legal style that is transforming patterns of law and regulation across the member states.
R. Daniel Kelemen Eurolegalism: The Transformation of Law and Regulation in the European Union Harvard University Press378 pages, 6 x 9 1/4 inches ISBN 978 0674046948
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