Transnational Judicial Communication: The European Union

doi:10.1017/9781108699068.012

11 - Transnational Judicial Communication: The European Union

from IV - Constitutional Adjudication and Interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2022

Elaine Mak and

David S. Law

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David S. Law: Affiliation:
University of Virginia

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National judicial systems within the European Union (EU) face pressures toward alignment under the policy agendas for judicial cooperation connected with the Lisbon Treaty and the widespread practice of ‘transnational borrowing’ among courts. Using the CJEU and ECtHR as case studies in the phenomena of judicial culture and transnational judicial communication, this chapter explores how constitutional norms and formal policies interact with contextual influences (including informal judicial interaction and evolving national ideas and practices regarding judging and judicial organisation) to produce increasing legal alignment among the member states. In doing so, the chapter explicitly highlights the need to combine comparative legal analysis with socio-legal research methods in order to understand the evolution of constitutional law.

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judicial dialogue European Union European Court of Human Rights Council of Europe Court of Justice of the European Union Comparativism constitutional borrowing judicial networking Court-to-Court Dialogue Judge-to-Judge Dialogue Inter-court Communication European Convention of Human Rights European Community Direct Effect supremacy Spain United Kingdom France

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Information: Constitutionalism in Context , pp. 236 - 260

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108699068.012 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2022

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