Introduction / Ulla Neergaard, Ruth Nielsen & Lynn Roseberry -- Judicial activism of the European Court of Justice and the development of the European social model in anti-discrimination and consumer law / Hans-W. Micklitz -- Is there a social ideal of the European Court of Justice? / Dagmar Schiek -- In search of the role of "solidarity" in primary law and the case law of the European Court of Justice / Ulla Neergaard -- The constitutional impact of Union citizenship / Eleanor Spaventa -- Labour law in the courts / Mia Rönnmar -- International human rights treaties and fundamental rights in the case law of the European Court of Justice : pointing towards a European social model? / Lynn Roseberry -- Scandinavian legal realism and EU law / Ruth Nielsen -- The case law of the European courts as seen from a nationl supreme court : the case of Norway / Finn Arnesen -- Legal reasoning and the hermeneutic turn in the law : remarks on the European Court of Justice / Joxerramon Bengoetxea -- Institutional theories, EU law and the role of the courts for developing a European social model / Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt