Abstract
Just as craft guilds in the last century militated against economic liberalization, some professional bodies in the European Union have resisted the normalization of EC law in order to preserve their institutional traditions. The struggle between European unification and institutional traditionalism is illustrated in the competition between the European Commission and Italian universities over the rights of non-Italian university teachers. This article examines efforts by the Italian state and university system to undermine the single market by failing to implement EC laws regarding free movement and non-discrimination. It concludes with an assessment of the problems for European integration when highly autonomous institutions resist EC law and behave like protectionist-minded guilds.
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