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German Idealism after Kant: Nineteenth Century Foundations of International Law (2022)
Journal Article
Schütze, R. (2023). German Idealism after Kant: Nineteenth Century Foundations of International Law. Revue d'histoire du droit international, 25(1), 105-141. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718050-bja10078

What are the legal principles of German idealism in the long nineteenth century; and what conception(s) of international law do they offer? Opposing Kantian rationalism and its formalist law, two idealist reactions do emerge in the early decades of t... Read More about German Idealism after Kant: Nineteenth Century Foundations of International Law.

Britain in the European Union: A Very Short Introduction (2022)
Journal Article
Schütze, R. (2022). Britain in the European Union: A Very Short Introduction. Global Policy, 13(Special Issue 2), 39-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13063

From the start, Britain's feelings towards European integration were complex; and when Britain finally joined the ‘common market’ in 1973, its reasons were predominantly of an economic nature. Its profound doubts of any ‘federal’ or ‘political’ union... Read More about Britain in the European Union: A Very Short Introduction.

“Re-Constituting” the Internal Market: Towards a Common Law of International Trade? (2020)
Journal Article
Schütze, R. (2020). “Re-Constituting” the Internal Market: Towards a Common Law of International Trade?. Yearbook of European Law, 39, 250-292. https://doi.org/10.1093/yel/yeaa005

Are the trade philosophies behind the EU internal market and the WTO international market converging or diverging; and are we, or are we not, moving towards a ‘common law of international trade’? Twenty years ago, an interesting—and swiftly famous—an... Read More about “Re-Constituting” the Internal Market: Towards a Common Law of International Trade?.

Foreign Affairs Federalism in the European Union (2019)
Book Chapter
Schütze, R. (2019). Foreign Affairs Federalism in the European Union. In C. Bradley (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Foreign Relations Law (333-351). Oxford University Press

Introduction: British Federalism? (2018)
Book Chapter
Schütze, R. (2018). Introduction: British Federalism?. In The United Kingdom and the Federal Idea (1-26). Hart Publishing

Governance and Globalisation: International Problems, European Solutions . (2018)
Book
Schütze, R. (Ed.). (2018). Governance and Globalisation: International Problems, European Solutions . Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316417027

While it might have been viable for states to isolate themselves from international politics in the nineteenth century, the intensity of economic and social globalisation in the twenty-first century has made this impossible. The contemporary world is... Read More about Governance and Globalisation: International Problems, European Solutions ..

‘Re‐reading’ Dassonville: Meaning and Understanding in the History of European Law (2018)
Journal Article
Schutze, R. (2018). ‘Re‐reading’ Dassonville: Meaning and Understanding in the History of European Law. European Law Journal: Review of European Law in Context, 24(6), 376-407. https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12290

There are few ‘mythical’ judgments that every student of European integration has read or ought to have read. Dassonville is one of these judgments. The Court here makes one of its ‘most famous pronouncement[s] ever’; and yet very little historical r... Read More about ‘Re‐reading’ Dassonville: Meaning and Understanding in the History of European Law.

Judicial Majoritarianism Revisited: “We, the Other Court”? (2018)
Journal Article
Schütze, R. (2018). Judicial Majoritarianism Revisited: “We, the Other Court”?. European law review, 43(2), 269-280

Re-examines the theory of judicial majoritarianism advanced by Miguel Maduro in respect of the EU internal market, which saw the ECJ as a quasi-legislature which judicially harmonised national rules according to the interests of all Member States. Re... Read More about Judicial Majoritarianism Revisited: “We, the Other Court”?.