Walker, Neil --- "Pluralism then and now" [2018] ELECD 405; in Davies, Gareth; Avbelj, Matej (eds), "Research Handbook on Legal Pluralism and EU Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 407

Book Title: Research Handbook on Legal Pluralism and EU Law

Editor(s): Davies, Gareth; Avbelj, Matej

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781786433084

Section: Chapter 23

Section Title: Pluralism then and now

Author(s): Walker, Neil

Number of pages: 4

Abstract/Description:

This Afterword examines the changing nature of the legal pluralist debate as regards the European Union, and how it reflects the developing social and political context. In the 1990s, the pluralist question came to the surface in response to the differing attitudes of the Court of Justice and national constitutional judges over the question of final judicial authority in the EU. The debate was a product of supranational strength and national anxiety in the face of that strength. Today, the EU stands in a less sure position, buffeted by a number of economic, social and political crises. The pluralist debate has broadened to take account of these crises. No longer confined to the judicial sphere, its continuing relevance depends on its connecting these legal questions to broader questions of the very sustainability of the EU’s deeper political pluralism.