The Court of Justice in the archives : introduction

Abstract

This Special Section is one of the fruits of a research project designed to reflect on the potential offered to legal scholars by the archives of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Although the Court of Justice (together with the European Central Bank) is exempt from the obligation that applies to the other EU institutions to deposit their his-torical archives with the Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU) at the Euro-pean University Institute in Florence, it may decide to do so voluntarily. In 2014 the Court of Justice decided to deposit its archives with the HAEU, and in 2016 took the deci-sion to open them to the public. Since July 2017 the archives of the Court of Justice cov-ering the first thirty years (1952 – 1982) of case law of the European Communities, de-posited in the HAEU, have been available to the public.First published online: 16 April 2018