TY - BOOK AU - Beck,Gunnar TI - The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU T2 - Modern studies in European law SN - 9781849463232 (cloth) AV - KJE5461 .B433 2012 U1 - 341.55 PY - 2012/// CY - Oxford, United Kingdom PB - Hart Publishing KW - Court of Justice of the European Union KW - Judicial process KW - European Union countries KW - Law KW - Interpretation and construction KW - Methodology KW - Courts N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Scientific versus heuristic legal reasoning -- The sources of linguistic vagueness -- Value pluralism and absence of a hierarchy of norms -- Precedent and the 'no law' situation as sources of legal uncertainty -- Legal reasoning : the interpretative stage -- Vagueness and value pluralism in the primary materials of the EU legal order -- The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice I : the available topoi -- The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice II : the approach to precedent -- The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice III : the cumulative approach -- The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice IV : the in-built communautaire tendency of the cumulative approach -- The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice V : the steadying factors ER -