Books by Gunnar Beck

The Court of Justice has often been characterised both as a motor of integration and a judicial law-maker. This book examines the Court's jurisprudence over more than half a century, and assesses the extent to which this is a fair description.

Gunnar Beck provides the first comparative book-length introduction to Fichte's and Kant's theories of freedom, law, and politics, together with an overview of the metaphysical and epistemological edifice underpinning their thinking. He offers a critical analysis of the underlying normative foundations of Kant's and Fichte's theories of rights and questions the analytical link between the idea of freedom as rational self-determination or autonomy and a rights-based political liberalism.