Taking a break from our 24/7 China tires safeguard coverage, there's a new EU law blog that just started up called Adjudicating Europe: http://adjudicatingeurope.eu/ Here's how they introduce themselves:
EU Law has come of age. Periodicals, text-books, conferences, professorships, institutes, research groups, associations, all give testimony of the unstoppable drive of what the European Court of Justice, fifty-five years ago, described as a “new legal order”.
In the present world, any area of expertise claiming any kind of pedigree has a lively blogsphere. Blogs, like journals in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, and television broadcasts in the twentieth, have revolutionised the way we discuss, update and expand our knowledge and opinions on matters as varied as economics, politics, cooking, gardening or literature. The legal profession has also benefited from the powerful role of blogs, particularly in the United States, where blogging and its surrounding media have drastically influenced the way in which lawyers work.
EU Law, despite its expansion and maturity, has not yet developed a comparable blogsphere of its own. Languages, the vastness of its scope, or a tendency to work and discuss inside national communities, have probably influenced this lack of blogging culture among EU lawyers.
Adjucating Europe is an initiative led by a group of academics and practitioners specialized in EU Law, with the aim of filling this gap in the current European landscape. Our aim is to stimulate discussion on issues of relevance for EU Law, with a particular attention to judicial developments. Our main focus will obviously rest on the European Court of Justice’s case law. However, EU Law is not only the product of European Institutions, but also of national authorities, and mostly national courts. We intend to follow and ignite interest in the decisions rendered by national courts with relevance for EU Law. When necessary, decisions of international courts or of non-member States will also be commented, but with our eyes always set on EU Law, its developments and challenges.
Comments will always be welcome. In fact, that is precisely the aim of any decent blog, and we encourage our readers to participate in our discussions by adding comments to our posts.
So then… as of today, let the blogging begin!
