The Court of Justice in the archives project : analysis of the Commission v Belgium case 149/79

This working paper is part of the Court of Justice in the Archives project, shedding new light on a seminal case in the jurisprudence on free movement of workers in the European Union: Case 147/97, Commission v Belgium. The paper reports findings from accessing and analysing the digitalised original case files from a perspective focusing on how the archival resource could contribute to socio-legal research. From this particular case-study, two key takeaways emerged. First, the case-files were a valuable asset to reconstruct the social and political context of the decision, spanning the period... Mehr ...