Brexit is scheduled to happen on October 31, 2019, and researchers have previously studied the impact of Brexit on relationships in the EU’s political institutions. This paper studies how Brexit might affect Member States’ interactions with the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and, more specifically, when they seek to influence the Court by submitting observations. The Untied Kingdom has consistently been a comparatively active Member State, submitting many observations. The paper introduces and employs a novel approach, studying what we call "mentions" in CJEU decisions, to measure position similarity in Member States' observations and to identify the UK's "allies" before the CJEU. The paper concludes the loss of the UK will be felt in particular in Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland and in the Nordic countries.
Recent research has demonstrated the ability of network analysis to better understand law. In this study we apply network analysis to the case law of the European Court of Justice (CJEU) in order understand its role as a source of law. In doing so, we apply network analysis tools not previously used in legal scholarship, most significantly (i) a modified version of the PageRank algorithm, (ii) the Map Equation, and (iii) resampling to infer “missing” links. In the article we demonstrate that this method can help us to understand not only the CJEU’s case law but law generally.
Med domen i fallet Rosneft (C-72/15, ECLI:EU:C:2017:236)(stora avdelningen) har EU-domstolen avgjort att den har behörighet att pröva giltigheten och tolka beslut fattade inom ramen för den gemensamma utrikes- och säkerhetspolitiken (Gusp) på begäran om förhandsavgörande från nationell domstol. Den har därmed både bekräftat att handlingar företagna med grund i Gusp är en unionsangelägenhet som bara undantagsvis kan överprövas av medlemsstaterna eller den Europeiska domstolen för mänskliga rättigheter och den har dessutom utvidgat rättsskyddet för enskilda och möjliggjort talan efter den tvåmånadersfrist som villkoras för giltighetsprövning i artikel 263 FEUF.