Abstract: The Advocate General’s Opinion in Commission in Commission v Malta is a useful opinion. Not because it is correct but because it highlights the central issue at stake in the case: the question of mutual recognition and its implications. The automatic mutual recognition of Member State nationality found in Micheletti has...
Abstract: Until recently, it would have been tautological to say that the question of assessing independence did not arise when the preliminary ruling instrument was activated by a national judge: judges in the Member States were presumed to be independent. However, in the context of the rule of law backsliding, with the adoption of national laws...
Abstract: This Insight explains in detail, yet easily understandable, the contents of the European Commission’s draft regulation on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed. It critically comments on the underlying scientific considerations and discusses potential legal issues – the precautionary principle...
Abstract: This Insight examines the discourse surrounding the instrumentalisation of migration and its impact on monitoring the EU’s external borders. It analyses the regulatory response, focusing on the Instrumentalisation Regulation, to determine if an exceptional emergency response is justified. The article explores recent arguments...
Abstract: This Insight takes the Court of Justice’s ruling in JP v Ministre de la Transition écologique and Premier Ministre (case C-61/21) as a starting point to reflect, more broadly, on the interpretation of the first condition of State liability for breaches of EU law, i.e. that the rule breached shall be intended to...
Abstract: In X v Udlændingenævnet, the Court of Justice dealt with a Danish provision requiring a Turkish worker, legally resident in Denmark, to successfully pass a language test as a necessary condition to provide his spouse with a residence permit for the purpose of family reunification. The Court claimed that said legislation...
Keywords: Rechtsdiskurs – Sprache – Staatenverbund – Verfassungsverbund – Verfassungsgemeinschaft – Wortwissenschaft.
Das Recht und die Wissenschaft vom Recht sind sprachgebunden; Sprache ermöglicht und begrenzt Rechtsdiskurse; Sprache ist Macht- und Vermittlungsinstrument, Rechts- und Kulturgut zugleich....
Keywords: language – interdisciplinary exchange – limitations – EU law discourse – international law – transnational law.
Die Chancen und Herausforderungen einer – je nach dem normativen Standpunkt – sprachlich vielfältigen bzw. zersplitterten Europarechtswissenschaft sind zahlreich. Der vorliegende...
Keywords: translations of decisions – constitutional courts – German-speaking European legal studies – Bundesverfassungsgericht – Verfassungsgerichtshof – Conseil constitutionnel.
Will man die Rolle der deutschsprachigen Europarechtswissenschaft über Landesgrenzen hinweg beleuchten, kommt...
Keywords: legal unity – scientific discourse – fragmentation – comparison of laws – public law – international law.
Ob man nun die EU als Rechtsgemeinschaft, als Rechtsunion, oder als Rechtsraum bezeichnet,[1] zugrunde liegt ein Anspruch auf Einheit, auf Interdependenz zwischen...