Understanding the European Union requires more than studying the rules laid down in the European Treaties. EU Law and Economics opens an insightful and thought-provoking dialogue between two distinct disciplines. Written with lucid erudition, Steinbach deploys economic analysis to illuminate core structural questions about the European legal order. An important new contribution to the theoretical and practical understanding of EU law.

Pascal Lamy, former Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Vice-President of the Paris Peace Forum

EU Law and Economics provides a masterful analysis of the interaction between law and economics in the European Union, and the different perspectives that lawyers and economists have when approaching the why, how, who and what of integration. Steinbach carefully contrasts the role of the Member States, as the 'masters of the Treaties' (the rock on which democratic legitimacy rests) with the evolution of the EU as an actor in itself, with a number of defining features such as the supremacy of EU law over national law and the innovative role of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The book is destined to become an essential reference for scholars, practitioners students and policy-makers in law and economics.

Rosa Lastra, Sir John Lubbock Chair in Banking Law and Chair of the Institute of Banking and Finance Law the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London

Armin Steinbach's research work combines an acutely insightful grasp of the minutiae of the European Union's legal system with an exceptionally perceptive command of the economics of European policy integration. This masterpiece book will no doubt prove indispensable read for both legal scholars and economists.

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po (Paris), Senior Fellow at Bruegel (Brussels) and Peterson Institute for International Economics (Washington)