Reversing the lens : in national judiciaries the CJEU trusts? Insights from EU migration and asylum law

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dc.contributor.authorBEKISZ, Hubert
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-06T09:20:02Z
dc.date.available2025-05-06T09:20:02Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionPublished online: 01 December 2024
dc.description.abstractTrust and distrust have been explored as drivers influencing the choices of national courts in the preliminary ruling procedure, that is, whether to hand over the case to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). This article proposes a novel account by reversing the roles to explore the CJEU’s trust and distrust in national judiciaries. While the reliance on national courts is inherent in the decentralised system of European Union (EU) law enforcement, the CJEU can impose significant limitations on national courts’ discretion in the application and enforcement of EU law. Trust and distrust in national judiciaries reflect the CJEU’s effort to reconcile averting claims of judicial activism with safeguarding the rule of law and promoting further European integration. Drawing on earlier literature on trust and distrust between judicial actors in Europe, this article conceptualises the CJEU’s trust and distrust in national judiciaries. It also establishes an analytical framework for analysing them through identifying trust-related considerations in the CJEU’s preliminary rulings: the intensity of interference with national procedural autonomy, the frequency of the use of deference to national courts, and the rigidity of the assessment of judicial independence. Zooming into the CJEU’s case law in a highly politicised area – EU migration and asylum law – suggests a shift from trust to distrust in national judiciaries. Having exposed vulnerabilities of Member States’ judicial structures, the rule of law and migration crises put into question the trustworthiness of national judiciaries and invite rethinking the judicial architecture of the EU.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis Special Issue is supported by the project CURIAFIDES funded by European Research Council (ERC, grant number 101089083).
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dc.identifier.citationErasmus law review, 2024, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 117-129
dc.identifier.doi10.5553/ELR.000279
dc.identifier.endpage129
dc.identifier.issn2210-2671
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.startpage117
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/92587
dc.identifier.volume17
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEleven International Publishing
dc.relationThe relevance of judicial (dis-)trust for the legal integration of the European Union
dc.relation.ispartofErasmus law review
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dc.rights.licenseAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectCourts
dc.subjectTrust
dc.subjectEU
dc.subjectMigration
dc.subjectAsylum
dc.titleReversing the lens : in national judiciaries the CJEU trusts? Insights from EU migration and asylum law
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