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For instance, the fact that there be initially no legal basis in the EEC treaties for judicial action in environmental issues or the fact that ‘direct effect’ of EU norms in that domain has been critical in preventing interest groups to have recourse to the ECJ.
The argument is not incidental as shown by the fact that the author has engaged, in other papers, in generalising some of her results to international courts (Cichowski, 2006).
For skeptical remarks in this line see Börzel (2006)
Reviewing the increasingly prolific literature on courts' contested relationship to democracy, Lisa Hilbink has indicated how sensitive the debate had got over the last years (2008).
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Vauchez, A. Democratic Empowerment Through Euro-Law?. Eur Polit Sci 7, 444–452 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2008.40
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