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This chapter explores how within certain colonial contexts the use of internationally composed ‘mixed courts’ to guarantee the individual rights of Westerners contributed to the origins of European integration law. It first introduces readers to the origins and characteristics of these mixed courts, which operated between the middle of the nineteenth and the middle of the twentieth centuries, highlighting especially the cases of the Mixed Courts of Egypt and the Mixed Court of Tangier. It then describes the personnel continuities that existed between these courts and post-Second World War European law, both within the European Communities and the Council of Europe. Finally, to further illustrate this point, the chapter will zoom in on one case before the Mixed Court of Tangier that not only raised the question of treaty law as constitutional law, but also elicited a cautious, yet not entirely negative, assessment by Nicola Catalano, who would shortly afterwards become one of the most influential early ‘Euro-lawyers’.

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Chapter 11 - Colonial-Era Mixed Courts, Early Euro-Lawyers, and EU Law as Constitutional Law

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