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AbstractIn both the EU and the WTO there are currently pending cases on the legality of EU Regulation 1007/2009 on trade in seal products and its Implementing Regulation 737/2010. While seals seem to be very attractive to the public so that raising arguments against these EU measures are not popular, the Regulations do raise concerns about competences, subsidiarity and proportionality which are relevant for compliance with EU primary law. They also raise concerns about possible protectionism, the use of public morals, coherence and necessity with regard to compatibility with WTO law. This paper seeks to examine all these issues.

Transformation or reconstitution of Europe : the European critical legal studies perspective / Siniša Rodin and Tamara Perišin -- On textualist and purposivist interpretation (challenges and problems) / Pierre Schlag -- Proportionality and deference in contemporary constitutional thought / Duncan Kennedy -- Discovering the law of the EU : the European Court of Justice and the comparative law method / Koen Lenaerts -- Ideology and legal reasoning at the European Court of Justice / Tamara Apeta -- Judicial appointments, judicial independence, and the European high courts / Mitchel Lasser -- Transformation or reconstitution of national regulatory policies at the EU level : insiders and outsiders under free movement rules / Tamara Perišin -- Useful effect of the framework decision on the European arrest warrant / Siniša Rodin -- Reflections on European legal formalism / Pieter-Augustijn van Malleghem -- Legal scholarship and external critique in EU law / Daniela Caruso and Fernanda Nicola

This edited volume presents comparative research on how the courts in Southeast Europe apply international law. After the introductory Part I, Part II discusses specific areas of international law, notably the law of Association Agreements between the EU and third countries, the law of the World Trade Organization, and international environmental law (the Aarhus Convention). Part III consists of country reports on how national courts in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia are currently applying international law.

"It is widely recognised that international order is undergoing transformative change and the old norms no longer apply. This collection looks at how the EU, specifically its judicial wing, is responding to these new challenges. It looks both externally at those internationally shared problems of unequal societies, the rise of populism and the migrant crisis and internally at Brexit, the differences between the EU centre and peripheries and the division of competences. Taking a multifaceted approach, it draws on voices from academia and the judiciary to suggest how the EU might respond effectively to the challenges faced"--