Courts in transition: Administration of justice and how to organize it: Celebrating six decades of the Court of Justice in a close community of magistrates

Publishers Abstract:
At the end of 2012, the Court of Justice of the EU celebrated its 60th anniversary with an "audience solennelle" and the launch of a volume under the weighty title The Court of Justice and the Construction of Europe. The book is appropriate to the event, purporting to chart sixty years of vast legal development in retrospect and also to look ahead. Solemn speeches and contributions to the volume alike draw a picture of continuous change and expansion, as well as unstoppable dynamism. Moreover, there is probably no other professional sector where the sense of co-responsibility between the European level and the equivalent circle at national level has taken shape so remarkably.

As on previous such occasions, the audience at the formal sitting consisted largely of presidents of national supreme and constitutional courts, who had also been convened to the annual forum for national magistrates to discuss topical issues of common interest.