This book retells the multiple stories behind the rulings of the European Court, revealing their context, their history and the legal and non-legal strategies of their actors.

1. Introduction to EU law stories - contextual and critical histories in European jurisprudence Bill Davies and Fernanda Nicola; Part I. Manufacturing EU Law Stories: 2. EU law classics in the making - methodological notes on Grands arrêts at the European Court of Justice Antoine Vauchez; 3. Behind the scenes at the Court of Justice - drafting EU law stories Karen McAuliffe; 4. Judges or hostages? Sitting at the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights Mathilde Cohen; Part II. Constitutionalization and Democratization: 5. Imagining the course of European law? Parti Ecologiste 'Les Verts' v. Parliament as a constitutional milestone in EU Law Anne Boerger and Bill Davies; 6. Law meets history - interpreting the van Gend en Loos judgment Morten Rasmussen; 7. Goodbye to all that - Commission v. Luxembourg and Belgium, and European Community law's break with the enforcement mechanisms of general international law Will Phelan; 8. Acts of creation - the ERTA decision as a foundation stone of the EU legal system Anne McNaughton; Part III. Human Rights and Citizenship: 9. Internationale handelsgesellschaft and the miscalculation at the inception of the ECJ's human rights jurisprudence Bill Davies; 10. Personal conviction and strategic litigation in Wijsenbeek John Morijn; 11. Breaking Chinese law - making European one - the story of Chen; or two winners, two losers, two truths Dimitry Kochenov and Justin Lindeboom; 12. Ruiz Zambrano's quiet revolution - 468 days that made the immigration case of one deprived worker into the constitutional case of two precarious citizens Francesca Strumia; 13. Media pluralism in Centro Europa 7 Srl, or when your competitor sets the rules Roberto Mastroianni; Part IV. Market Integration - Competition, Corporate and Private Law: 14. The difficult quest to implement cartel control - Grundig-Consten (1966) and Philip Morris (1987) Laurent Warlouzet; 15. The Cassis legacy: Kir, banks, plumbers, drugs, criminals and refugees Kalypso Nicolaïdis; 16. The duty of sincere cooperation as lawyering strategy - a personal account of Commission v. United Kingdom case 804/79 John Temple Lang; 17. Centros, the freedom of establishment for companies, and the Court's accidental vision for corporate law Martin Gelter; 18. The pyrrhic victory of Mr Francovich and the principle of state liability in the Italian context Antonio Bartolini and Angela Guerrieri; 19. Tessili v. Dunlop 1976 - the political background of judicial restraint Vera Fritz; 20. Oceano - a transatlantic victory for the consumer and a missed opportunity for European Law Fernanda Nicola and Evelyne Tichadou; Part V. Beyond the Market - Gender and Anti-Discrimination: 21. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children v. Grogan - rereading the case and retelling the story of reproductive rights in Europe Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez; 22. Jenkins v. Kingsgate and the migration of the US disparate impact doctrine in EU law Ioanna Tourkochoriti; 23. Mademoiselle Gravier and equal access to education - success and boundaries of European integration Gisella Gori; 24. The early retirement age of the Hungarian judges Gábor Halmai; Part VI. Beyond the EU Borders: 25. Viking's 'semantic gaps' - law and the political economy of convergence in the EU Peter Lindseth; 26. Melki in context - Algeria and European legal integration Daniela Caruso and Joanna Geneve; 27. Of 'one shotters' and 'repeat-hitters' - a retrospective on the role of the European Parliament in the EU-US PNR litigation Elaine Fahey; 28. Lessons from American legal history - social rights and market freedoms Michelle Egan; Conclusion: 29. Learning from EU law stories - the European Court and its interlocutors revisited Mark Pollack.