Review note

This is an ambitious book trying to cover in a systematic and comprehensive manner what is normally include under the term of European Economic Law. The French expression "droit matériel" is in effect broader that simply Economic law and includes all that is not covered by the expression "droit institutionelle" (relating to the institutional, judicial and decision-making rules of the EC), and the book Here is a book which has left me with mixed feelings. It has overcome my usual initial resistance to dogmatic works with a well conceived and original structure, supporting an approach which is useful in its detailed coverage of EC economic law and in its re-organisation in a systematic and clear manner of the rules and principles which govern this area of the law. Thus, it offers us the best that dogmatic approaches have to offer (and it´s not little) and does it in an intelligent and original way which also gives us some glances at the surrounding landscape of the dogmatic picture. But if the macro-analysis is clearly positive, I was disappointed at some parts of the micro-level, where I found myself, at points, clearly surprised by the descriptive analysis and restatements of the law made by the author (which, curiously, is normally one of the strong points of dogmatic approaches). Some examples: Keck, de facto discr… purely internal situation.