we have before us an important, original, and complicated book.

Pietro Costa, European Law Books

One can only hope that this volume is to bring European law to turn towards the narratives within its own history, that it is able to break the communicative silence, and that it allows [one] to take the shaping of collective memories within European public spaces serious. One can only wish that such debates will rise to the high level of Joerges and Ghaleigh's tome.

Andreas Fischer-Lescano Translated by Harry Bauer, Kritische Justiz

…this well-crafted set of essays is welcome… extremely interesting and useful. The project is an important one, which is fully worthy of support.

Robert Cryer, European Public Law, Vol 12, no.1

the volume at hand offers a fascinating fullness of insights and open questions.

Clemens Jabloner (translated by Jo Eric Murkens), Journal für Rechtspolitik

…the principal virtue of this book - for which the editors should be warmly thanked - is that it is there, standing hopefully at the outset of a widespread and intensive new research agenda for European law. It would be a scandal is this work did not trigger subsequent studies on the role and influence of Fascist or National-Socialistic thinking in individual European locations…

Martti Koskenniemi, European Journal of International Law

This book is…unique in the perspective its inquiry takes into European identity, both in its diversity and in its unity.

Thomas Mertens, Ratio Juris