Introduction – the European Court of Justice and legal integration: perpetual momentum?

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Susanne Schmidt would like to acknowledge generous funding of the German Research Foundation via the CRC 597. We are very grateful to those colleagues who agreed to act as anonymous reviewers for the contributions. We would also like to thank those participants of the November 2010 workshop in Bremen that acted as discussants of the different papers: Philipp Genschel; Fritz Scharpf; Martin Höpner; Christian Joerges; Michael Blauberger; and Arndt Wonka. Daniel Kosak did a great job preparing the manuscript for this edited collection. Our special thanks go to Fritz Scharpf for agreeing to take over the conclusion!

Notes

The Treaty of Lisbon introduced changes in the names of EU judicial institutions. The Court of Justice of the European Communities is now officially known as the ‘Court of Justice’ – but informally we can still refer to it as the European Court of Justice or ECJ. The Court of First Instance is now known as the General Court. The EU's judiciary as a whole – including the ECJ, the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal, and any lower courts that may be established in the future – are collectively referred to as the Court of Justice of the European Union (or CJEU).