First Judgments of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Community: Reviewing Private Rights in a New Regional Agreement

Abstract:

This article provides a brief summary of the establishment and jurisdiction of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Community, as well as an analysis of the first judgments of the Court rendered in 2012 from the point of view of the general effectiveness of the judicial protection of the rights of private parties on the level of the Eurasian Economic Community. The author draws up certain parallels between the Court and the Court of the European Union from a historical point of view and submits that the Court could definitely be placed among the so-called new-style institutions of international justice. Based on that the author suggests some lessons that the Eurasian Economic Community could learn from the development of the Court of the European Union, its case law and the role it has played in the development of the European Union legal order.