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Redressing Fundamental Rights Violations by the EU

Redressing Fundamental Rights Violations by the EU
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Redressing Fundamental Rights Violations by the EU

The Promise of the ‘Complete System of Remedies'
Editor:
Melanie Fink, Leiden University
Giulia Gentile, Melanie Fink, Clara Rauchegger, Joyce De Coninck, Ljupcho Grozdanovski, Lucía López Zurita, Moritz Schramm, Andreas Hofmann, Jasper Krommendijk, Kris van der Pas, Veronika Yefremova, Maria José Schmidt-Kessen, Koen Bovend'Eerdt, Argyro Karagianni, Miroslava Scholten, Florin Coman-Kund, Mariolina Eliantonio, Merijn Chamon, Simona Demková
Published:
December 2024
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ISBN:
9781009373807

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    The EU prides itself on having created a legal system that puts the individual at its centre. Individuals benefit from a broad range of fundamental rights that protect them against EU power. However, to vindicate their rights against the EU, they have to make use of a remedies system as old as the EU itself. Unsurprisingly, with EU power growing and evolving, it also is increasingly difficult to challenge. This book critically examines the EU's remedies system from a fundamental rights perspective, focusing on the EU's activities outside the realm of lawmaking. It maps the existing mechanisms private parties can avail themselves of to enforce their fundamental rights against the EU and discovers their unused potential. In doing so, it offers an important synthesis of the state of play and directions for reform in areas where the EU falls short of its promise to provide a 'complete system of remedies'. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

    • Provides the first comprehensive analysis of the EU's remedies system from a fundamental rights perspective
    • Accounts for the changes EU power has undergone and the challenges this raises from a remedies perspective
    • Offers inspiration for civil society organisations engaged in strategic litigation on how to work within the EU legal system
    • This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

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    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • Part I. Remedies Before the CJEU:
    • 1. The power of procedure: fundamental rights in the action for annulment before EU courts Giulia Gentile
    • 2. The action for damages as a fundamental rights remedy Melanie Fink, Clara Rauchegger and Joyce De Coninck
    • 3. Evidence as enabler – or filter – of actions brought by private parties directly before the EU courts Ljupcho Grozdanovski
    • 4. Fundamental rights complaints in the preliminary reference procedure Lucía López Zurita
    • Part II. Remedies Beyond the CJEU:
    • 5. Complementarity, structure, and ambivalence: review bodies' role in protecting fundamental rights Moritz Schramm
    • 6. The role of national courts in redressing fundamental rights violations by the EU Andreas Hofmann
    • 7. EU accession to the ECHR: completing the complete system of EU remedies? Jasper Krommendijk
    • Part III. Pushing the Boundaries:
    • 8. Strategic litigation Kris van der Pas
    • 9. Finding a new (old?) way forward: international arbitration as a supplementary tool for fundamental rights violations Veronika Yefremova
    • 10. Online dispute resolution: a viable avenue for redressing fundamental rights violations? Maria José Schmidt-Kessen
    • Part IV. Testing the Remedies System:
    • 11. EU law enforcement authorities and access to justice Koen Bovend'Eerdt, Argyro Karagianni, Miroslava Scholten
    • 12. Legal protection against fundamental rights breaches through factual conduct by the European Union Florin Coman-Kund
    • 13. Composite procedures, the violation of fundamental rights, and the availability of sufficient remedies in the multi-level EU judicial architecture Mariolina Eliantonio
    • 14. Soft law and challenges to access to justice Merijn Chamon
    • 15. The EU's artificial intelligence laboratory and fundamental rights Simona Demková
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography.
      Contributors
    • Giulia Gentile, Melanie Fink, Clara Rauchegger, Joyce De Coninck, Ljupcho Grozdanovski, Lucía López Zurita, Moritz Schramm, Andreas Hofmann, Jasper Krommendijk, Kris van der Pas, Veronika Yefremova, Maria José Schmidt-Kessen, Koen Bovend'Eerdt, Argyro Karagianni, Miroslava Scholten, Florin Coman-Kund, Mariolina Eliantonio, Merijn Chamon, Simona Demková

    • Editor
    • Melanie Fink , Leiden University

      Melanie Fink is Assistant Professor of Law at Leiden University and APART-GSK Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Central European University. She researches and publishes in the areas of EU and public international law, with a focus on human rights and access to justice, the EU's role in border control, and accountability in the context of administrative cooperation, including through the use of artificial intelligence systems.