This book maps out the evolution of judicial control in two major fields of EU activity traditionally outside the scope of its central legal system: the Common Foreign and Security Policy and Justice and Home Affairs. It charts the ongoing attempts to secure adequate judicial safeguards in these controversial areas of EU policy.

Judicial Deliberations compares how and why the European Court of Justice, the French Cour de cassation, and the US Supreme Court offer different approaches for generating judicial accountability and control, judicial debate and deliberation, and ultimately judicial legitimacy.

A radical new reading of human rights in the EU that will be of cross- disciplinary interest to scholars and students of law, politics, international relations, and human rights.

Comparative discussion of UK, and Continental public service law, and of emerging European law

Deals with the development of the Open Method of co-ordination as a technique of EU governance