Statecraft, the Market State and the Development of European Legal Culture

EUI Working Papers LAW no 2012/10

28 Pages Posted: 29 May 2012

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Ari Afilalo

Rutgers University - School of Law

Dennis Patterson

Rutgers University School of Law, Camden; University of Surrey - School of Law

Kai P. Purnhagen

University of Bayreuth; Erasmus University of Rotterdam - Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics

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Date Written: April 1, 2012

Abstract

We consider whether the theory of the market-state can explain the features of a common European legal culture. Our thesis is that there is an extant EU legal culture, one which developed through the Europeanisation of law. The distinct European feature of this legal culture is the enforcement of market-state features in EU law. The concept of legal culture needs to be untied from a communitarian view by which culture “provides this group with its identity by establishing internal coherence and external difference, as well as relative consistency over time”. Culture hence needs to be viewed through a decentralized lens. As a nation-state heritage, EU law has developed a legal culture which does not follow purely market-state rationales, but rather balances these rationales against nation-state features such as human rights.

Keywords: legal culture, market-state, EU law, legal theory

Suggested Citation

Afilalo, Ari and Patterson, Dennis and Purnhagen, Kai Peter, Statecraft, the Market State and the Development of European Legal Culture (April 1, 2012). EUI Working Papers LAW no 2012/10, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2068575 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2068575

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