Category Archives: Review

Vlad Perju’s Case Against Bidimensional Supremacy in EU Constitutionalism

Introduction In July 2020, Professor Vlad Perju, Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College and Professor of Law at Boston College Law School, published an open-access article entitled ‘Against Bidimensional Supremacy in EU … Continue reading

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Van Elsuwege and Gremmelprez on Protecting the Rule of Law in the EU Legal Order: A Constitutional Role for the Court of Justice

1. The Topic of the Article  The article written by Peter Van Elsuwege and Femke Gremmelprez, published in May 2020 in the European Constitutional Law Review, discusses the role of the Court of Justice (Court) in relation to protecting fundamental … Continue reading

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Torres Pérez on the Court of Justice as a watchdog of judicial independence

From Effective Judicial Protection to Judicial Independence: Article 19(1) TEU An Overview of the Article This blog post analyses the article ‘From Portugal to Poland: The Court of Justice of the European Union as a watchdog of judicial independence’ by … Continue reading

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The European Constitutional Law Review’s Editorial on Constitutional Courts Relying on the Charter

Background The European Constitutional Law Review’s editors published an Editorial with the title ‘Better in than out: when Constitutional Courts Rely on the Charter’ in May 2020. The authors start their reflection by referring to a decision delivered in November … Continue reading

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Smith on the Rule of Law Crisis in the EU

Melanie Smith from Cardiff University presented the article ‘Staring into the abyss: A crisis of the rule of law in the EU’ in the last issue of the European Law Journal of last year. Smith focuses on how the rule … Continue reading

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Purnhagen et al. on the Web of Health Competence for European Union Action in Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak

In June 2020, an article with the title ‘More Competences than You Knew? The Web of Health Competence for European Union Action in Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak’ was published in the European Journal of Risk Regulation. The authors of … Continue reading

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Wischmeyer on ‘Making social media an instrument of democracy’

In March 2019, Thomas Wischmeyer, assistant professor at Bielefeld in Germany, published the article ‘Making social media an instrument of democracy’ in the European Law Journal. In the article, Wischmeyer compares the current constitutional dialogue on social media regulation with … Continue reading

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