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Nik de Boer's study combines empirical research with legal analysis in a unique and fascinating way. The fusion of original interviews, a thorough scrutiny of parliamentary debates and an in-depth examination of the relevant case law offers the international (and also German!) readership an extremely rich and valuable wealth of new insights. The study offers a consistently balanced and differentiated line of reasoning, but at the same time clearly underlines the thesis that the EU-related case law of national constitutional courts actually threatens to unduly restrict the democratic decision-making process that it purports to protect. Alexis de Tocqueville and Édouard Lambert would have loved this book! * Mattias Wendel, Professor of Public Law, EU Law, International Law, Migration Law and Comparative Law, Leipzig University, Germany * Judging European Democracy provides a unique combination of a thorough analysis in constitutional and political theory, discussing ongoing debates on the legitimacy of constitutional review, and an in-depth analysis of constitutional debates on EU matters in Germany. The case study of the German Constitutional Court helps to test various theoretical claims against concrete constitutional and political practice. In this way, Judging European Democracy contributes both to the theoretical debate concerning constitutional review-in general and in the context of the EU-as well as to the debate concerning constitutional practice in the EU and possible institutional reform. * Jan Komárek, Professor of European law at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Nik de Boer has written a great book, which is likely to have an important impact on future discussions on the democratic foundations of European integration. De Boer makes a convincing case that we need to revise the traditional view that calls on national constitutional courts to operate as the main checks on EU institutions. Judges should be careful not to constrain the democratic conversation within and among the political bodies. There is a better path to build the normative foundations of EU law. * Victor Ferreres Comella, European Law Review * De Boer's book is not to be missed by academics who (critically) explore the German Federal Constitutional Court and the debate on budgetary sovereignty. But Judging European Democracy will also be a significant source for a broader circle of those who research, teach and study European law and politics, in particular the contestation of EU law by national courts, as well as the stories of the Eurozone crisis and the post-pandemic crisis * Maciej Krogel, Common Market Law Review *

Nik de Boer's study combines empirical research with legal analysis in a unique and fascinating way. The fusion of original interviews, a thorough scrutiny of parliamentary debates and an in-depth examination of the relevant case law offers the international (and also German!) readership an extremely rich and valuable wealth of new insights. The study offers a consistently balanced and differentiated line of reasoning, but at the same time clearly underlines the thesis that the EU-related case law of national constitutional courts actually threatens to unduly restrict the democratic decision-making process that it purports to protect. Alexis de Tocqueville and Édouard Lambert would have loved this book! * Mattias Wendel, Professor of Public Law, EU Law, International Law, Migration Law and Comparative Law, Leipzig University, Germany * Judging European Democracy provides a unique combination of a thorough analysis in constitutional and political theory, discussing ongoing debates on the legitimacy of constitutional review, and an in-depth analysis of constitutional debates on EU matters in Germany. The case study of the German Constitutional Court helps to test various theoretical claims against concrete constitutional and political practice. In this way, Judging European Democracy contributes both to the theoretical debate concerning constitutional review-in general and in the context of the EU-as well as to the debate concerning constitutional practice in the EU and possible institutional reform. * Jan Komárek, Professor of European law at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark *

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Nik de Boer is Assistant Professor of constitutional law at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the editorial board of the European Constitutional Law Review. He received a PhD from the University of Amsterdam and has held visiting positions at the European Court of Justice, Harvard Law School, and at the Center for Global Constitutionalism of the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB). Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies (ACCESS EUROPE) and an Assistant Professor of financial law at the University of Amsterdam.

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