European Law Journal | Volume 27, Issue 1-3 (2021)

Special Issue | Between Ought and Is: European integration through the rule of law

Table of Contents:

• Editorial
  • #IAmPetra; Prologue: The paradoxes of the rule of law in EU context—with special emphasis on the Polish RRP and EAW sagas; In this issue | Karine Caunes
• Billet
  • War as a pretext to wave the rule of law goodbye? The case for an EU constitutional awakening | Petra Bárd & Dimitry V. Kochenov
• Variety
  • BREXIT, democracy and the rule of law | Aidan O'Neill
  • The contribution of the European Union to the rule of law in the field of international investment law through the creation of a Multilateral Investment Court | Colin M. Brown
  • “A State in the disguise of a Merchant”: Tech Leviathans and the rule of law | Christian D'Cunha
  • Trading rule of law for recovery? The new EU strategy in the post-Covid era | Louise Fromont & Arnaud Van Waeyenberge
  • The double helix of rule of law and EU competition law: An appraisal | Maciej Bernatt
  • Bridging the gap between facts and norms: mutual trust, the European Arrest Warrant and the rule of law in an interdisciplinary context | Patricia Popelier, Giulia Gentile & Esther van Zimmeren
• Kaleidoscope: on the independence of the judiciary
  • In courts we trust, or should we? Judicial independence as the precondition for the effectiveness of EU law | Petra Bárd
  • The rule of law as the lodestar of the European Convention on Human Rights: The Strasbourg Court and the independence of the judiciary | Robert Spano
  • Rule of law, national judges and the Court of Justice of the European Union: Let's keep it juridical | Filipe Marques
  • Effet utile and the (re)organisation of national judiciaries: A not so unique institutional response to a uniquely important challenge? | Ruairi O'Neill
• Un Certain Regard
  • Independence of the Court of Justice of the European Union: Unchecked Member States power after the Sharpston Affair | Dimitry V. Kochenov & Graham Butler
• Speakers' Corner
  • Advocacy for a citizen-centric rule of law agenda: How do we bring the rule of law to life? | Adis Merdzanovic & Kalypso Nicolaidis
• Epilogue: in solidarity we stand
  • A declaration on the rule of law in the European Union | Helsinki Rule of Law Forum
  • Is it worth being a Rejtan? | Marek Safjan
  • Iustitia | Krystian Markiewicz