This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of in-depth case studies, it explores the political dimension of annulment litigation, which has become an increasingly relevant judicial tool in the struggle over policy content and decision-making competences. The book covers the motivations of actors to turn policy conflicts into annulment actions, the emergence of multilevel actors' litigant configurations, the impact of actors' constellations on success in court, as well as the impact of annulment actions on the multilevel policy conflicts they originate from.

Provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of EU annulment actions to date Contributes to the study of the role of judicial conflicts in the EU and, more broadly, to the role of law and its contestation in the evolution of the EU Combines qualitative and quantitative insights to explore EU annulments from a political perspective

Autorentext
Christian Adam is Assistant Professor at the University of Munich, Germany. His research focuses on policy change, policy implementation and the role of courts and litigation in these processes. He published in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and International Journal of Drug Policy.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 The Neglected Politics behind EU Annulment Litigation.- Chapter 2 Towards an Analytical Framework to Study Annulments in the EU.- Chapter 3 The Legal Background.- Chapter 4 Studying Annulment Actions.- Chapter 5 Motivations: When Conflict Leads to Litigation.- Chapter 6 Litigant Configurations: Turbulence and the Emergence of Complex Configurations.- Chapter 7 Litigant Success: How Litigant Configurations Relate to Legal Outcomes.- Chapter 8 The Political Side of EU Annulment Litigation.- Annexes.