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Authored Books

Beck, Gunnar (2013) The Legal Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU. Oxford: Hart.

Beck, Gunnar (2008) Fichte and Kant on Freedom, Rights and Law. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Book Chapters

Beck, Gunnar (2008) 'Autonomy, history and natural law in the practical philosophy of Immanuel Kant.' In: Byrd, B. Sharon, (ed.), Themenschwerpunkt: Kants Metaphysik der Sitten im Kontext der Naturrechtslehre des 18. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Duncker und Humbolt. (Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik = Annual Review of Law and Ethics, Bd. 16)

Beck, Gunnar (2007) 'Legal Certainty, the Common Law Tradition, Resistance to Harmonization and Convergence in the European Community Legal Order.' In: Backer, L. C., (ed.), Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization. Convergence, Divergence, and Resistance. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, pp. 241-278.

Beck, Gunnar (2007) 'The Normative and Conceptual Contestability of Human Rights.' In: Byrd, B. Sharon, Hruschka, J. and Joerden, J. C., (eds.), Jahrbuch fuer Recht und Ethik. Annual Review of Law and Ethics. Band 15. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, pp. 659-698.

Beck, Gunnar and Cata, Larry (2006) 'The Common Law Tradition, the English Courts, and the Application of European Community Law in Harmonzing Law in an Era of Globilzation - Convergence, Divergence and Resistance.' In: Cata, Larry, (ed.), Harmonizing law in an era of globalization : convergence, divergence, and resistance. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

Journal Article

Beck, Gunnar (2016) 'The Macro Level: The Structural Impact of General International Law on EU Law: The Court of Justice of the EU and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.' Yearbook of European Law, 35 (1). pp. 484-512.

Beck, Gunnar (2016) 'The moral void at the heart of human rights adjudication.' Journal of Comparative Law, 8 (2). pp. 237-266.

Beck, Gunnar (2014) 'The Legal Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU - A Reply to Michal Bobek.' European Law Review, 2014 (4). pp. 579-582.

Beck, Gunnar (2014) 'The Court of Justice, legal reasoning, and the Pringle Case - Law as the continuation of politics by other means.' European Law Review (2). pp. 234-250.

Beck, Gunnar (2014) 'The Court of Justice, the Bundesverfassungsgericht and Legal Reasoning during the Euro Crisis: The Rule of Law as a Fair-Weather Phenomenon.' European Public Law, 20 (3). pp. 539-566.

Beck, Gunnar (2013) 'The Legal Reasoning of the Court of Justice and the euro crisis – the flexibility of the Court’s Cumulative Approach and the Pringle Case.' Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 20 (4). pp. 645-658.

Beck, Gunnar (2011) 'The Lisbon Judgment of the German Constitutional Court, the Primacy of EU Law and the Problem of Kompetenz-Kompetenz: A Conflict between Right and Right in Which There is No Praetor.' European Law Journal, 17 (4). pp. 470-494.

Beck, Gunnar (2008) 'Human Rights Adjudication under the ECHR between Value Pluralism and Essential Contestability.' European Human Rights Law Review (2). pp. 214-244.

Beck, Gunnar (2008) 'Legitimation Crisis, Reifying Human Rights and the Norm-Creating Power of the Factual.' Penn State International Law Review, Winter.

Beck, Gunnar (2008) 'The Mythology of Human Rights.' Ratio Juris, 21 (3). pp. 312-347.

Beck, Gunnar (2007) 'Common law reasoning as ordinary reasoning in extraordinary language.' Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft (3). pp. 335-358.

Beck, Gunnar (2007) 'The ECJ judgment in Cadman, the state of Community anti-discrimination law, and how the legal becomes the political.' European Law Review, 32 (4). pp. 549-562.

Beck, Gunnar (2007) 'The Idea of Human Rights Between Value Pluralism and Conceptual Vagueness.' Penns State International Law Review, 25 (3). pp. 615-627.

Beck, Gunnar (2006) 'Immanuel Kant's Theory of Rights.' Ratio Juris, 19 (4). pp. 371-401.

Beck, Gunnar (2006) 'The English Courts and the Application of Community Law.' Irish Journal of European Law, 12 (1).

Beck, Gunnar (2005) 'The Problem of Kompetenz-Kompetenz: A Conflict Between Right and Right in which There Is No Praetor.' European Law Review, 30 (1). pp. 42-67.

Beck, Gunnar (2005) 'The British Parliament and the Convention on the Future of Europe.' European Law Review, 30 (5). pp. 743-757.

Beck, Gunnar (1999) 'Autonomy, History and Political Freedom in Kant's Political Philosophy.' History of European Ideas, 25 (5). pp. 217-241.

Beck, Gunnar (1996) 'From Kant to Hegel—Johann Gottlieb Fichte's theory of self-consciousness.' History of European Ideas, 22 (4). pp. 275-294.

Monographs and Working Papers

Beck, Gunnar and Horn, H-D. (2016) Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen die Mitwirkung der Bundesbank und das Unterlassen der Bundesregierung und des Deutschen Bundestages jeglicher Hinwirkung auf die Aufhebung und Begrenzung der innerstaatlichen Auswirkungen der Beschlüsse des Rates der Europäischen Zentralbank vom 4. September 2014, 2. Oktober 2014, 15. Oktober 2014 und 22. Januar 2015 [Part 2]. London; Marburg: Marburg Law School.

Beck, Gunnar and Horn, H-D. (2015) Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen die Mitwirkung der Bundesbank und das Unterlassen der Bundesregierung und des Deutschen Bundestages jeglicher Hinwirkung auf die Aufhebung und Begrenzung der innerstaatlichen Auswirkungen der Beschlüsse des Rates der Europäischen Zentralbank vom 4. September 2014, 2. Oktober 2014, 15. Oktober 2014 und 22. Januar 2015 [Part 1]. London; Marburg; Lahn: Marburg Law School.

Beck, Gunnar, Mole, Nuale and Reneman, Marcelle (2014) The application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights to asylum procedure law, European Council on Refugees and Exiles. Amsterdam: Dutch Council of Refugees.

Book Reviews

Beck, Gunnar (2013) 'Book Review: The Limits of Legal Reasoning and the European Court of Justice, by Gerard Conway, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.' Common Market Law Review, 50 (3). pp. 896-898.

Beck, Gunnar (2013) 'Review of: The Limits of Legal Reasoning and the European Court of Justice by Gerard Conway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.' International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 62 (2). pp. 515-519.