Taking the EU to court: annulment proceedings and multilevel judicial conflict

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

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Taking the EU to Court -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 The Neglected Politics Behind EU Annulment Litigation -- Policy and Institutional Relevance of Annulments -- Annulment Over Time and Across Policy Areas: Empirical Evidence -- Structure of the Book -- Cases Cited -- References -- Chapter 2 Towards an Analytical Framework to Study Annulments in the EU -- Research Questions -- Multilevel Governance and Conflict in the EU -- EU Policy Making and Litigant Configurations -- Judicial Politics and Judicial Success -- Conceptualizing Multilevel Annulment Conflict -- Horizontal v. Vertical Conflict -- Simple v. Complex Conflicts -- A Multilevel and Multi-step Analytical Approach -- Cases Cited -- References -- Chapter 3 The Legal Background -- Actions for Annulment: Some Essentials -- An Evolving Set of Reviewable Acts -- An Evolving List of Applicants -- Conclusion -- Cases Cited -- References -- Chapter 4 Studying Annulment Actions -- Research Strategy -- Case Selection -- Data -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Motivations: When Conflict Leads to Litigation -- Conceptualizing Motivations for Litigation -- Material Gains -- Institutional Competences -- Ideology -- Political Trust -- Empirical Analysis -- The Legal Factor -- Material Gains-Driven Motivation in Annulment Litigation -- The Potato Starch Case (T-557/13) -- Adjustment of Salaries and Pensions of Eurocrats (C-196/12, C-66/12, C-63/12) -- Institutional Competences-Driven Motivation in Annulment Litigation -- The Renewable Energies Law Case (T-134/14 and T-47/15) -- The Leipzig Halle Case (T-396/08) and the Dresden Airport Case (T-215/09) -- Procedural Competences in Trade Negotiations (C-22/70 and C-425/13) -- The Selective Tax Benefits Cases (T-219/10, T-399/11).