This ruling offers an excellent illustration of the Court’s understanding of the role of humor and satire in the protection of free speech. The ECtHR’s doctrine on this matter suggests that political ...

Article 14 (2) of the Dutch Nationality Act (in Dutch: Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap) allows for the revocation of Dutch nationality of those who are convicted of terrorism-related crimes. However, ...

Only a vigilant democracy can be a resilient democracy. The public also deserves to know why the publication occurred at this ...

Such solidarity, however, needs a stable basis. Following the Commission’s plea (para. 50), the Court takes the view that this solidarity requires a link with a Member State society: “the special ...

On 4 November 2024, the Tribunal of Rome lodged a request for a preliminary ruling to the ECJ seeking clarification on the powers of MS to designate a third country and countries of origin as safe by ...

What are we to make of this conception of citizenship, and its use by the Court to strike down citizenship for investment schemes? Because I am no EU lawyer, I approach these questions from the ...

The ongoing controversies over methods in EU law reflect a broader rethinking of the discipline, influenced by multiple crises in the European Union. Scholars are questioning traditional conceptions ...

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I propose viewing law not as a universal (or European) science but following Geertz, as local knowledge. To demonstrate how this is of interest for understanding EU law, its effects, and the limits of ...

In EU legal studies, time, space, place, and knowledge are locations for contestation, deliberation and reconstruction. Other submissions in this symposium have elaborated on the limitations in ...