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 PY - 2012/// CY - Oxford PB - Hart Publishing KW - Court of Justice of the European Union KW - Gjykata e Drejtësisë e Unionit Europian = Court of Justice of the European Union KW - Bashkimi Evropian KW - Procesi Gjyqësor = Judicial Process KW - Legjislacioni = Legislation 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 -