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Publisher: EU Law Live Press
Published: 14/09/2026
Language: English
ISBN: 978-84-123589-5-7
Item Weight: 1 kg
Dimensions: 21,5 x 15,5 x 3 cm
Format: Hardback
Extent: 97 pgs
Hearings in Luxembourg is a practical guide to oral proceedings in the EU courts, grounded in the author's extensive experience across a wide spectrum of EU litigation. It distils the strategic choices, procedural subtleties and unwritten conventions that shape hearings before the Court of Justice and the General Court. Precise, authoritative and firmly practice-oriented, this book equips lawyers to navigate one of Europe’s most distinctive judicial arenas with confidence, discipline and tactical intelligence.
Daniel Sarmiento is Professor of EU Law and a practising lawyer with long-standing, hands-on experience in EU litigation, having advised and represented States, EU institutions, corporations and NGOs in more than one hundred cases before the EU courts and boards of appeal.
0. Introduction and acknowledgements
I. Hearings in EU courts: a quick comparative and historical overview
II. The Legal Framework of Hearings
III. The great divide: Two courts and multiple remedies
IV. A right, an obligation or an opportunity?
V. Dramatis Personae
VI. Preparing for the hearing
VII. Structure of the hearing
VIII. Learning to talk
IX. Technology and lawyers in hearings
X. Mammoth hearings
XI. Shit happens
XII. Communication and Publicity
XIII. After the Hearing
XIV. What do the Judges Expect from a Hearing?
XV. Conclusion
