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November 1, 2023

Interested in studying the European Court of Justice using empirical methods, but not sure how to get started? Look no further! ⚖️📈

I have written an introductory guide to studying the work of the CJEU using rstats, guiding you through all the steps from downloading the data to producing figures such as the ones attached (using ggplot2).

Feedback welcome!

https://www.brekke.it/index.php?page=content&id=2023-11-01-Studying_the_CJEU_in_R

Average procedure time for references for preliminary rulings before the Court of Justiec. Efficiency reforms in the early 2000s seem to have been highly successful, including the new

October 2, 2023

The European Court of Human Rights famously has its margin of appreciation, but what's up with deference at the European Court of Justice? My article on deference in the ECJ, co-authored with Lucía López Zurita, is out now in the JCMS!

Rather than deferring parts of its decision as an avoidance strategy or due to the lack of an agenda, we find the CJEU to be more deferential in rulings making expansionist interpretations of EU law.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcms.13547

Mary Poppins handing out her medicine, famously mixing in a spoonful of sugar to help it go down.

This is not unlike how the European Court of Justice mixes its own medicine - expansionist interpretations of EU law - with a hint of deference the referring court, making the pill easier to swallow for national judges that might otherwise respond badly to legally innovative rulings.

September 16, 2023

I finally got around to setting myself up with a personal website over at https://brekke.it!

It's my first attempt at web development since I was a teenager, so any feedback would be much appreciated - I realize going with something pre-made would probably have made more sense, I just thought it was more fun this way.

May 24, 2023

The latest indictment of the Colombian special jurisdiction for peace, while marking a leap ahead in terms of environmental protection, might nevertheless be a step backwards in terms of indigenous rights protection in Colombia.
https://opiniojuris.org/2023/05/23/environmental-justice-at-the-jep-and-indigenous-worldviews-a-mismatch/

January 30, 2023

After years of work, the CJEU Database Platform is finally launched in the Cambridge Journal of Law and Courts!

The database contains among other things all decisions, judges, and submissions to the ECJ and General Court of the EU, and is open for use by researchers, students, practitioners, or anyone interested. Have a look!

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-and-courts/article/cjeu-database-platform-decisions-and-decisionmakers/69151433D88FD163B9CC997296CEE540