Although the EU
legal order is rooted in the mind of European lawyers and scholars,
little attention has been dedicated to the role of legal education in
the development of the EU as a polity. In the attempt to make up for
this gap, the book investigates how EU legal education has acted as a
powerful factor of political integration among the EU member States. The
countries involved in the research (the Benelux, Spain, Latvia, Slovak
Republic, Germany, Poland and Romania) represent a comprehensive
gathering of different «EU legal experiences», analyzed by the
contributors through descriptive and normative approaches, as well as
combining quantitative and qualitative methods. In underlining the
complementary relation between law and legal education, the book argues
that, besides a «first-level integration» by EU law, the promotion of a
common educational legal framework in the EU can foster a deeper
«second-level integration», speeding up a process which is, in the end,
not only legal, but also political and cultural.
Integration through Legal Education
