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 ...

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 ...

With Commission v Malta, the Court has submitted the acquisition of a Member State’s nationality – abstractly – to requirements under EU law. Concretely, the Court locates a limit for the conferral 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 ...

On 10 April 2025, the Advocate General (AG) Richard de la Tour of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered his Advisory Opinion in the joined cases C‑758/24 Alace and C‑759/24 Canpelli. The ...

Following what an esteemed former Advocate General has described as “the usual verbal sludge”, paragraphs 93 to 101 of the judgment tackle the relationship between the Maltese scheme and the ...

Critique has become one of the latest buzzwords in EU legal studies. Who, after all, would not want to be identified as a critical scholar if the danger is that one’s work might otherwise be labelled ...

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 ...