Book Reviews Ukrow, Jörg. Richterliche Rechtsfortbildung durch den EuGH. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1995. Pp. 392. DM 118. Bashing the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has become fashionable within the community of Euro-Phobes. It is perceived as one of the main centres of evil in the Community, like an unleashed beast which behaves in its decisions like a quasi-legislator, exceeding its competencies and violating the Member States' sovereignty. In his thorough study, Jörg Ukrow analyses and comments on the development of European Community Law by the ECJ from a perspective which both acknowledges its importance for the formation of the Community's legal order, and in particular the judicial protection of the individual, and at the same time emphasizes the necessity to keep judicial activity within the boundaries implicitly drawn by the EC Treaty and its underlying principles. Only sticking to the latter can ensure the legitimacy of the Court in the long run, as Ukrow correctly states. Whether his conclusion, that the Court's famous Francovich decision should be seen as a judicial faux pas, is then the right one, may be up for discussion. Alexander Ballmann München
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