by Leila Medina* INTRODUCTION Compared to the estimated age of our planet, which is 4.54 billion years, the anniversary of the Columbia Journal of European Law that we celebrate today may seem infinitely small. However, 30 years is the average time it takes for most trees to reach full maturity. I am therefore delighted to […]|
by Pascal McDougall* ABSTRACT During the past fifteen years, many EU member states have been subject to “runs” whereby investors massively sell a country’s financial assets and trigger interest rate spikes that make the country’s debt explode. The European Central Bank (ECB) and the other EU institutions have done little to counter these debt crisis […]|
by Federico Fabbrini* ABSTRACT The article compares the protection of human rights during the pandemic in the European Union (EU) and the United States (U.S.) by analyzing judicial review of Covid-19 measures. In particular, the article searched all available Covid-19-related rulings delivered between the start of the pandemic and 30 June 2023 by state and […]|
by Antonio Aloisi* ABSTRACT The green and digital transitions are increasingly described as the “twin transition” in EU policy documents, social partners’ strategic plans and academic debates. However, the exact meaning of this term remains ambiguous, and the interconnections between these transitions are largely unexplored. This paper aims to clarify the motivations and pitfalls behind […]|
by Kayla Mathurin* & Stefanie Haller**| cjel.law.columbia.edu
Ilias Bantekas* ABSTRACT The lex sportiva embodies the notion that sport governing bodies (SGBs) possess full authority to promulgate their own rules and render these binding by reason of contract to all their constituent stakeholders, including, inter alia, athletes, clubs and national federations. Their non-profit character has allowed them to attract a preferential status and […]|
by Tamas Dezso Ziegler, Balázs Horváthy, Thomas Buijnink ABSTRACT This paper elaborates on the role of legal exceptionalism in European integration from the perspective of EU Member States, with special regards to Hungary’s position. Its aim is to prove two points. First, exceptionalism is a natural consequence of increased dependency among European countries. From a […]|
by Maria Lucia Passador* ABSTRACT The EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) is a landmark piece of legislation designed to regulate AI systems according to their risk levels and ensure the protection of fundamental rights. This paper focuses on the interplay between the AI Act and prudential supervision within the EU banking sector, with a […]|
Helen Jennings* ABSTRACT This paper examines a development in recent judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (“the Court,” “ECtHR”) regarding the prohibition of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (“Article 3,” “ECHR”). Since the 2010s, the Court has linked the prohibition of degrading treatment […]|
by: Justin Lindeboom** ABSTRACT In EU constitutional law scholarship, comparisons with US constitutional law have been both a major intergenerational topic of interest and a significant blind spot. On the one hand, similarities and differences in constitutional DNA and federal architecture have been analyzed by multiple generations of scholars over the past four decades.[1] Less […]|
by: Sarah Ganty* & Dimitry V. Kochenov** ABSTRACT The European Union (EU) deploys a number of legal techniques in an effort to make sure that virtually no denial of racialized noncitizens’ rights–across the spectrum from equality and dignity to the right to life–is ever presented as a violation of EU law, even as the death-toll […]|
by: Peter Davis*| cjel.law.columbia.edu