ABSTRACT
Anyone reading the writings of jurists on the legal aspects of European unification will discover that one particular “style” is absolutely predomi nant. It is only too apparent that writings of the type in question -which are proliferating at a vertiginous rate along with the progress of European uni fication and are spawning European research centers, universities, profes sorial chairs, periodicals etc.— are in most cases quite uncritical. They summarize the legislative or even purely political decisions of European institutional bodies, cite judgments by European Courts and provide infor mation on how these bodies see the future in the different fields of legal integration. The result is that in all countries of Western Europe, identical articles are being written on the same subjects with the same official bod ies as their more or less exclusive sources of reference.
