The book titled “Quo vadis, Boards of Appeal? The Evolution of EU Agencies’ Boards of Appeal and the Future of the EU System of Judicial Protection” and edited by Jacopo Alberti has recently been published as a special volume of the Rivista del Contenzioso Europeo – Revue du Contentieux Européen – Review of European Litigation. Coherently with the mission of the Review, founded in 2023, the book sheds light and offers new perspectives on a core topic of EU law. The volume, in fact, reinvigorates the legal debate on EU Agencies’ Boards of Appeal (hereinafter BoAs) and offers new perspectives on their evolution.

As it is well known, and duly acknowledged by the Editor’s introduction and further confirmed by the bibliographical references made by almost each of the twenty Authors in the analyses carried out in the various chapters, the legal debate on the topic is surely not scarce nor in its infancy. Nonetheless, having BoAs reached their «age of maturity», the book proposes a «shift from a micro perspective, which is focused on assessing what these bodies are, to a macro perspective, which is focused on assessing what they are bringing to the EU judiciary and how the latter is evolving thanks to their presence».

As the book convincingly clarifies in several passages, there are sound reasons – apart from some considerations that will be elucidated at a later stage – for insisting on the BoAs contribution to the overall functioning of the EU system of “judicial” protection. These reasons lie in two recent changes in the EU legal framework.