Comp. by: Stage : Proof ChapterID: 0002494376 Date:2/3/15 Time:15:36:49 Filepath:// ppdys1122/BgPr/OUP_CAP/IN/Process/0002494376.3d Dictionary : OUP_UKdictionary 73 3 The Roles of Law in a New Intergovernmentalist European Union Paul James Cardwell and Tamara Hervey What are the roles of law in European integration? 1 Of course, this is not a new question. But it is a question that deserves to be revisited by successive generations of EU scholars, and not only in light of major Treaty changes to formal legal structures. Legal approaches to the EU have traditionally— and correctly—focused on the central importance of the ‘Community method’ as a means to pursue European integration. But as early in the post-Maastricht period as 1995, some legal scholars were already identify- ing ‘new legal dynamics’ (Shaw and More 1995), beyond Court-focused scholarship, or singular accounts of the role of law in the integration process. Legal scholars have increasingly looked towards alternative methods and processes of EU integration, including their ‘law-like’ qual- ities, as the EU has moved into new law and policy-making areas. Some political scientists have also considered the role of law, but often a rather ‘thin’ notion of ‘law-ness’, focused only upon ‘command and control’ and not upon law’s other qualities, modes or interactions with ‘non-law-like’ means of integration. 1 We are grateful to the participants at the workshops on The Methods of European Integration, Central University Budapest, June 2012; the panel on Methods of Integration at the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Annual Conference, Passau, September 2012; and the workshops Exploring the Legal in Socio-Legal Studies, LSE, September 2012; Theorising Integration and Governance after the Lisbon Treaty and During Crisis, Sheffield, July 2013; The New Intergovernmentalism, Budapest, November 2013, at which versions of this paper were delivered, especially Chris Bickerton, Simon Bulmer Dave Cowan, Dermot Hodson, and Uwe Puetter, We are also grateful to Nina Boeger, Pablo Castillo Ortiz, and Niamh Nic Shuibhne for their useful comments and suggestions and to Charlotte Page for research assistance. OUP UNCORRECTED PROOF – FIRST PROOF, 2/3/2015, SPi