Integration through Legal Education. The Role of EU Legal Studies in Shaping the EU

Although the EU legal order is rooted in the mind of European lawyers and scholars, little attention has been dedicated to the role of legal education in the development of the EU as a polity. In the attempt to make up for this gap, the book investigates how EU legal education has acted as a powerful factor of political integration among the EU member States. The countries involved in the research (the Benelux, Spain, Latvia, Slovak Republic, Germany, Poland and Romania) represent a comprehensive gathering of different «EU legal experiences», analyzed by the contributors through descriptive and normative approaches, as well as combining quantitative and qualitative methods. In underlining the complementary relation between law and legal education, the book argues that, besides a «first-level integration» by EU law, the promotion of a common educational legal framework in the EU can foster a deeper «second-level integration», speeding up a process which is, in the end, not only legal, but also political and cultural.