The role of effet utile in preserving the continuity and authority of European Union law : evidence from the citation web of the pre-accession case law of the court of justice of the EU

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dc.contributor.authorSADL, Urska
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-22T14:54:48Z
dc.date.available2016-01-22T14:54:48Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionPublished online: 09 September 2015en
dc.description.abstractEffet utile is one of the most contested terms in European case law. The present article empirically analyses its occurrences in the case law across time, legal fields and argumentative contexts. It thereby demonstrates that the main function of effet utile is to mitigate the entrenchment and extension of fundamental doctrines: primacy, direct effect and human rights. On this basis, the article argues that effet utile is primarily a rhetorical instrument used by the Court of Justice of the European Union to decouple legal principles from the practical effects of its decisions with the objective of persuading Member States to accept the authority of European law without compromising its normative coherence and continuity. The analysis is an important contribution to a comprehensive understanding of effet utile and offers a deeper insight into the long-term maintenance of supranational judicial authority.en
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dc.identifier.citationEuropean journal of legal studies, 2015, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 18-45en
dc.identifier.endpage45
dc.identifier.issn1973-2937
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.startpage18
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/38651
dc.identifier.volume8
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean journal of legal studiesen
dc.relation.urihttps://ejls.eui.eu/en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.subjectEffet utile of EU lawen
dc.subjectCourt of Justice of the European Unionen
dc.subjectSupranational judicial authorityen
dc.subjectIncrementalismen
dc.subjectCoherenceen
dc.titleThe role of effet utile in preserving the continuity and authority of European Union law : evidence from the citation web of the pre-accession case law of the court of justice of the EUen
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