Researching in EU law and Politics
This action contributes to the development and consolidation of research of EU law using political-legal approaches and methods. The vision of the action is also to experiment with research-based teaching and learning for introducing students to academic research and policy analysis in the field of EU legal-political studies. Following this strategy, the Chair will encourage, advice and mentor the young generation of professionals and researchers to adopt political-legal approaches in the study of EU law and, more broadly, in EU studies.
This section offers spaces of expression where students and researchers might implement and disseminate their independent research and policy/legal analyses on EU law adopting an interdisciplinary political-legal perspective.
In the following section, you can consult some of the most recent research (journal articles, book chapters, reports, etc.) from the members of the action and their collaborators on a wide variety of topics concerning EU law and politics.
2023:
- Dothan, Shai (2023) “Facing Up To Internet Giants” forthcoming 34 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law iCourts working paper series no. 320 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4382100
- Dothan, Shai (2023) “A New Model of Reasoning by Analogy”, forthcoming Jus Cogens iCourts working paper series no. 319 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4368590
- Dothan, Shai (2023) “Social Networks and Nonlegal Sanctions: Compliance with International Courts” forthcoming in Informality and Judicial Institutions: Comparative Perspectives (Björn Dressel, Raul Sanchez Urribarri & Alexander Stroh-Steckelberg eds.). iCourts working paper series no. 314 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4318071
- Dothan, Shai (2023) How to Master English as a Multilingual: A Guide for Students, Lawyers, and Professionals, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/how-to-master-english-as-a-multilingual-9781035306749.html
- Wind, Marlene & Knudsen, Tim (2023) “Det danske flertalsdemokrati og mødet med Europaretten” in Danmark og EU gennem 50 år: en milepæl” Neergaard, U. & Engsig Sørensen, K. (eds.). Kbh.: Djøf Forlag, p. 253-280 28 p. https://www.djoef-forlag.dk/book-info/danmark-og-eu-gennem-50-ar
2022:
- Dothan, Shai; Maučec, Gregor (2022) “The Effects of International Judges’ Personal Characteristics on Their Judging (Introduction to a Symposium Issue), Leiden Journal of International Law 35 887-895 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/leiden-journal-of-international-law/article/effects-of-international-judges-personal-characteristics-on-their-judging/A68A684D1C000973FC375F164B0A79BA
- Dothan, Shai; Maučec, Gregor (2022) (eds.) Special Issue “The Effects of International Judges’ Personal Characteristics on Their Judging Leiden Journal of International Law 35 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/leiden-journal-of-international-law/issue/78AA0EC0B8CEB4C33219812AE13992E0
- Dothan, Shai (2022) “Violating International Law is Contagious” 23 Chicago Journal of International Law 79-89 https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cjil/vol23/iss1/5/
- Dothan, Shai (2022) “Violating International Law is Contagious” iCourts Working Paper Series No. 280 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4059169
- Dothan, Shai (2022) “Democracy, Populism, and Concentrated Interests” forthcoming 56 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review iCourts working paper series no. 307 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4225716
- Sadl, Urska; López Zurita, Lucía; Brekke, Stein Arne & Naurin, Daniel (2022) “Law and orders: the orders of the European Court of Justice as a window in the judicial process and institutional transformations.” European law open, 1(3): 549-575 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-law-open/article/law-and-orders-the-orders-of-the-european-court-of-justice-as-a-window-in-the-judicial-process-and-institutional-transformations/B389246F0BAFC2430A9A6DF938500AF5
- Mayoral, Juan A., Shai Dothan & Matthias Smed Larsen (2022) (eds.) Special Issue: EU Law & Politics. Retskraft - Copenhagen Journal of Legal Studies. 6(1). https://www.retskraft.dk/udgivelser?fbclid=IwAR0BVS7lMC9ZVVVhtWmt70h0uHFlokk3NWquFYln1rpWWBERNj-fd16x2VE
- Mayoral, Juan A., & Shai Dothan (2022). “Guest Editorial”. Special Issue: EU Law & Politics. Retskraft - Copenhagen Journal of Legal Studies. 6(1): 1-6.
- Mayoral, Juan A., Mikael Rask Madsen, Anton Strezhnev, and Erik Voeten (2022). “Sovereignty, Substance, and Public Support for European Courts’ Human Rights Rulings”. American Political Science Review. 116(2), 419-438. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421001143
- Mayoral, Juan A. & Marlene Wind (2022) “Unleashed dialogue or captured by politics? The impact of judicial independence on national higher courts’ cooperation with the CJEU” Journal of European Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2021.1974925
- Mayoral, Juan A. & Antonio Barroso (2022) “Spain: Temporary Centralization amidst Political Polarization”. In Navigating the Perfect Storm: Understanding Governments Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe. Kennet Lynggaard, Mads Dagnis Jensen, Michael Friederich Kluth (eds.) Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-14145-4
- Mayoral, Juan A. (2022) “La Europeización Judicial de la Política Española”. In La Europeización de la Política Española. Javier Arregui (ed.) McGraw Hill. URL
- Mayoral, Juan A. (2022) “In the CJEU judges trust: A new approach in the judicial construction of Europe”. In The Making of iCourts: New Interdisciplinary Legal Research. Henrik Palmer Olsen & Henrik Stampe Lund (eds.) 377-406. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783748927884/the-making-of-icourts
- Mayoral, Juan A. & Tom Pavone (2022) “Statistics as if Legality Mattered: The Two-Front Politics of Empirical Legal Studies.” In The Politics of European Legal Research: Behind the Method. Marija Bartl & Jessica Lawrence (eds.) Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-politics-of-european-legal-research-9781802201185.html
- Wind, Marlene & Rohlfing, Regitze Helene (2022) “Death by a thousand cuts: measuring autocratic legalism in the European Union’s rule of law conundrum”. Democratization. 18 p. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13510347.2022.2149739?journalCode=fdem20
- Wind, Marlene (2022) “Denmark”. In National Constitutions and EU Integration. Griller, S., Lina Papadopoulou, L. & Puff, R. (eds.). Bloomsbury Publishing plc, p. 89-122 34 p. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/national-constitutions-and-eu-integration-9781509906741/
2021:
- Dothan, Shai (2021) “As If: Why Legal Scholarship Needs Assumptions” 51 Seton Hall Law Review 645-668 https://scholarship.shu.edu/shlr/vol51/iss3/2/
- Dothan, Shai (2021) “As If: Why Legal Scholarship Needs Assumptions” iCourts Working Paper Series No. 194 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3630140
- Dothan, Shai (2021) “Three Paradigms of International Judicial Review” in The Most Endangered Branch?: Courts and Judicial Review in Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (Christoph Bezemek & Yaniv Roznai eds). iCourts working paper series no. 262 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3937966
- Sadl, Urska (2021) “Old is new: the transformative effect of references to settled case law in the decisions of the European Court of Justice”. Common market law review, 58 (6):1761–1788. URL
- Wind, Marlene (2021) “The Backlash to European Constitutionalism: Why we shouldn’t embrace the identitarian counterwave”. Revue européenne du droit. 3 https://geopolitique.eu/en/articles/the-backlash-to-european-constitutionalism-why-we-should-not-embrace-the-identitarian-counter-wave/
- Wind, Marlene, Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg & Jensen (2021) Europa i forandring: En grundbog om EU's politiske og retlige system, M. C. D., 4 ed. : Hans Reitzels Forlag. https://hansreitzel.dk/forfattere/marlene-wind_0-37348/europa-i-forandring-bog-20467-9788702322514
2020:
- Sadl, Urska & Tarissan, Fabien (2020) “The relevance of the network approach to European (case) law: reflection and evidence.” Claire Kilpatrick and Joanne Scott (eds), New legal approaches to studying the Court of Justice, Oxford: Oxford University Press: 92-124. https://academic.oup.com/book/31855?login=false
- Sadl, Urska & Holtermann, Jakob v. H. (2020) “The foundations of legal empirical studies of European Union law: a starter kit.” Christoph Bezemek, Michael Potacs & Alexander Somek (eds), Vienna lectures on legal philosophy: normativism and anti-normativism, Portland : Hart Publishing, 2: 207-232. https://www.worldcat.org/title/1280513982
- Wind, Marlene (2020) Illiberalismens fremmarch i Ungarn og Polen. In Seeberg, P. & Thorup, M. (eds.) Demokratiets krise og de nye autokratier. Århus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
- Wind, Marlene (2020) The Tribalization of Europe. Polity-Wiley: New Jersey, US.
- Wind, Marlene (2020) Tribaliseringen af Europa. Gyldendal: Copenhagen
- Wind, Marlene (2020) “When Populism undermines Democracy: The sway of illiberalism in Hungary and Poland”. La Revue Tunisienne de Science Politique. 2(4):165-186.
- Sadl, Urska, Naurin, Daniel, López Zurita, Lucia & Arne Brekke, Stein (2020) “That's an Order! The Orders of the CJEU and the Effect of Article 99 RoP on Judicial Cooperation”. iCourts Working Paper Series, No. 219.
- Mayoral, Juan A. & Pedraz Calvo, Maria Mercedes (2020). “Spain – National report”. In FIDE national courts as EU law enforces. Michael Dougan and Michal Bobek (eds.). Eleven International Publishing.
- Mayoral, Juan A. & Aida Torres Pérez (2020) “On Judicial Mobilization: Entrepreneuring for policy change at times of crisis”. In Emmanuelle Mathieu, Christian Adam, and Miriam Hartlapp (eds.) Public Policy and the CJEU’s Power: Bringing Stakeholders In. Routledge: UK.
- Mayoral, Juan A. & Pavone, Tom (2020) “Statistics as if Legality Mattered: The Two-Front Politics of Empirical Legal Studies.” iCourts Working Paper Series, No. 220.
- Mayoral, Juan A., Madsen, Mikael, Strezhnev, Anton & Voeten, Erik, “Sovereignty, Substance, and Public Support for European Courts (August 27, 2020)”.
2019:
- Mayoral, Juan A. (2019) “Judicial empowerment expanded: Political determinants of national courts' cooperation with the CJEU”. European Law Journal, 25(4): 374-393.
- Mayoral, Juan A. (2019) “Game of Courts: The effect of constitutional judicial conflicts on polish judges’ cooperation with the CJEU”. In Clara Rauchegger, & Anna Wallerman (eds.), The Eurosceptic Challenge: National Interpretation and Implementation of EU Law. Hart Publishing: Oxford.
- Mayoral, Juan A. & Pablo J. Castillo-Ortíz (2019) “El papel de los actores judiciales en una Unión Europea en tiempos de crisis”. In Luis Bouza & Cristina Ares (eds.), Política de la Unión Europea: crisis y continuidad. Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas: Madrid.
- Mayoral, Juan A. & Aida Torres Pérez (2020) “On Judicial Mobilization: Entrepreneuring for policy change at times of crisis”. In Emmanuelle Mathieu, Christian Adam, and Miriam Hartlapp (eds.) Public Policy and the CJEU’s Power: Bringing Stakeholders In. Routledge: UK.
- Sadl, Urska & Anna Wallerman (2019) “‘The referring court asks, in essence’: Is reformulation of preliminary questions by the Court of Justice a decision writing fixture or a decision‐making approach?” European Law Journal, 25(4): 416-433.
- Wind, Marlene (2020) La Tribalización de Europa. Editorial Planeta: Madrid.
This section lists the number of research events organized by the action to promote interdisciplinary and empirical research in EU law & Politics:
- EUPoLex students’ virtual workshop on the Legalization of EU Politics. Faculty of Law and Political Science Department. 13-14 May 2020.
- "The Politics of the EU Judicial Power" aka: "Oops Your Conference Was Cancelled" PhD-Postdoc Workshop. 28 May 2020. Co-organized with PluriCourts and the European University Institute.
- New Interdisciplinary Perspectives in European Union Law 27 January 2022
- Law as a Science – Commenting on Shai Dothan’s new monograph 27 October 2022
'The Sandbox' offers a creative space for the EUPoLex students and participants to make research visible and to communicate ideas discussed in the courses. The Sandbox serves as a repository of the research materials (e.g. articles, master-papers, blogposts, videos and podcasts) produced by the students involved in the EUPoLex courses.
First students’ research outputs coming for the courses on the Legalization of EU Politics (Spring 2020) and EU law in Political Context (Autumn 2020) are available in EU Law & Politics Special Issue in Retskraft.
Blog posts by EUPoLex Alumni:
- Daniela Guggenbühl: “EU-Turkey Statement Four Years On: Success or Failure?”
The action will investigate how to contribute to the development and consolidation of teaching and research of EU law using political-legal approaches and methods. In this regard, the project will to address the following questions concerning the idea of interdisciplinary in higher education:
- To contribute to a clarification of key concepts on interdisciplinarity for the study of EU law.
- To develop cross curricular pedagogies, which can be used to plan and conduct interdisciplinary teaching and education in EU law, with special focus on political-legal approaches and methods.
- To identify main components in theory of knowledge in interdisciplinarity that can be used to plan and conduct interdisciplinary political-legal education, policy/legal analysis and academic research in EU law.
- To develop didactic tools and materials to support teachers to conduct interdisciplinary education in EU law.
- To offer spaces of expression where students might implement and disseminate their independent research and policy/legal analyses on EU law adopting an interdisciplinary political-legal perspective.
- To investigate how interdisciplinary and empirical approaches might affect students’ attitudes and expectations towards the legal, political and EU-oriented professions.
In order to achieve this goal, the Chair, under the supervision and assistance of the research group on ‘Law Teaching and Learning’ and ‘the Interdisciplinary Education Project’ at the University of Copenhagen, will carry his research. It will consist in the implementation of new research-based techniques, methods and strategies of interdisciplinary teaching and learning that will help to integrate political-legal approaches to EU law, complemented with the use of surveys and interviews techniques to evaluate the impact of this techniques in the students. The Chair will use this evidence from the EUPoLex courses for the researcher, evaluation and improvement of education in political-legal studies to EU law.