Strategic Climate Litigation before National Courts: Can European Union Law be used as a Shield? by Christina Eckes

“…Efforts to reduced greenhouse gas emissions globally, including the efforts of the European Union and the Member States, are severely insufficient to hold global warming below the 1.5°C temperature limit. …”
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A Summary: Portraying the Legal Culture and the European Human Rights Culture of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice through Interviews by Nina-Louisa Arold Lorenz

“…In doing so, this article draws a portrait of the legal cultures of the two European courts and explains how (and to what extent) differences between European legal cultures brought to the benches of the two courts by their judges (plus for the CJEU: advocates general) impact cases concerning human rights. …”
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Developments in the Case Law of the EU Courts in Competition Law in 2016 by Catarina Vieira Peres

“…During this year, there have been many interesting developments in what concerns both Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and State aids. There haven't been many cases on mergers or Article 102 TFEU, where the Court of Justice's decision in Intel's case is still awaited. …”
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Commitment Decisions: Is the Sky the Limit? - Commentary to Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 15 September 2016, Case T-76/14, Morningstar, Inc. v European Commissi... by Rita Leandro Vasconcelos

“… In its judgment of 15 September 2016, the General Court ruled on whether the commitments offered by Thompson Reuters to the European Commission during an investigation of a possible abuse of dominant position were sufficient to address the competition concerns identified by the Commission. …”
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Intensity of Judicial Review of the European Central Banks’s Supervisory Decisions by Andrea Magliari

“… A few years after the establishment of the Single Supervisory Mechanism, the General Court of the European Union, in its new supervisory role, annulled for the first time the decisions adopted by the European Central Bank (ECB). …”
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Why Do So Few Preliminary Questions Come From Czechia? by Kunertová Tereza

“…Although a substantial part of the body of laws of an EU Member State is founded upon European Union law and norms, the number of preliminary questions emanating from courts in the Czech Republic appears to be disproportionately low compared to other similar EU Member States. …”
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Use of Extra-judicial Technical Surveillance in Criminal Decision-making: European Limitations and National Challenges by Andrei Zarafiu

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Antitrust Damage Claims: A View From Efta Court by Agata Jurkowska-Gomułka

“…The so-called Antitrust Damages Directive was highly inspired by the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Although Directive 2014/104/EU has not been incorporated into the EEA law, damage claims resulting from violations of EEA competition rules are judged by national courts in the EEA Member States, which is why some aspects of private enforcement of competition law have become a point of interest for the EFTA Court, being – together with the Court of Justice of the European Union – the EEA court. …”
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Reconciling a Fresh Start with Personal Data: The Challenge of EU Insolvency Discharge by Bolzanas Darius, Jokubauskas Remigijus

“…The processing of the debtor’s personal data in the discharge procedure is subject to the general rules of protection of personal data in the European Union law. …”
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Two strings to one bow? Article 47 of the EU charter of fundamental rights in the EU competition case law: between procedural and substantive fairness by Giulia gentile

“…Although the existing literature has highlighted the overall influence of fundamental rights in the enforcement of competition law, the contribution of Article 47 Charter, as interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union, in enhancing fairness in EU competition policies remains, so far, underexplored. …”
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THE RIGHT TO GOOD ADMINISTRATION AS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF THE PERSON: EU EXPERIENCE by Tetyana Kaganovska, Vitalii Serohin

“…The principle of proper administration arose in the case law of the EU Court and the Court of First Instance and is based on the existence of the Union, which governs the rule of law and puts forward criteria for the quality of the functioning of the official apparatus. …”
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MODERNIZATION AND FUNCTIONING OF PRINCIPLES OF CIVIL PROCEDURAL LAW OF UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESSES by Olga Voloshchenko

“…Adoption of the new version of the Civil Procedure Code of Ukraine in 2017 was a major step in bringing the field of civil justice closer to the standards of the European Union and improving it. The review of the revised provisions in terms of the functioning and implementation of the principles of civil procedural law makes a positive impression in terms of compliance with the latest requirements of the practice of the European Court of Human Rights. …”
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Alternative Dispute Resolution on Consumer Conflicts in the EU and Turkey by Esra Ünal

“…In the 1970s, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods were adopted in response to an increase in consumer conflicts, with the aim of reducing the workload on courts. ADR has been supported by the European Union (EU), which enacted the 2013/11/EU ADR Directive to standardize consumer redress mechanisms between Member States. …”
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Direct Applicability of Generally Accepted Principles of International Law in Legal Order of the Republic of Slovenia by Anton Olaj

“…The predicament is even greater because, with the exception of the Court of Justice of the European Union, a translation of the relevant case law of international tribunals is not available. …”
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Form over Substance: Possibilities to Prove Electoral Irregularities under Serbian Law by Jelena Jerinić

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A Rational Continuum: Legal and Cultural Abortion Narratives in Trump’s America by Eir-Anne Edgar

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Refusing the Referendum: Queer Latino Masculinities and Utopian Citizenship in Justin Torres’ We the Animals by Marion Christina Rohrleitner

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Legitimate expectation in administrative procedure by Romić Marko Lj

“…Legitimate expectation is one of the basic procedural principles of the general administrative procedure codifications of many European countries. …”
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Principles of the victim’s representation in criminal proceedings by I. O. Yemets

“…Based on the analysis of the provisions of criminal procedure legislation, provisions of international legal treaties, and European Union law, and on the basis of generalisation of theoretical positions of scholars, and also taking into account the proven experience of certain European States, it has been substantiated that the principle of victim representation is one of the fundamental principles of criminal proceedings. …”
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Antitrust Private Enforcement and the Binding Effect of Public Enforcement Decisions by Miguel Sousa Ferro

“… This paper provides an overview of the legal status quo in the European Union relating to the binding effect, in follow-on competition law cases, of public enforcement decisions, as well as of some of the legal issues which are likely to be the subject of controversy in years to come, in this regard. …”
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