Judicial Europeanisation Through Deconstitutionalisation: The Case of the Analogous Application of the Citizenship Directive

(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2024 9(2), 529-55 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. – II. The Court’s ability to influence policies. – III. Research design – IV. The analogous application of the Directive – IV.1. Periods of residence completed...

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Main Author: Eftychia Constantinou
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Published: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu) 2024-10-01
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description (Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2024 9(2), 529-55 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. – II. The Court’s ability to influence policies. – III. Research design – IV. The analogous application of the Directive – IV.1. Periods of residence completed under Directive 68/360 – IV.2. Free movers returning to their Member State of origin – IV.3. Free movers naturalised in the host Member State – V. National responses to the analogous application of the Directive – V.1. Periods of residence completed under Directive 68/360 – V.2. Free movers returning to their Member State of origin – V.3. Free movers naturalised in the host Member State – V.4. Same-sex spouses – VI. Judicial Europeanisa-tion through deconstitutionalisation – VII. Concluding remarks. | (Abstract) The Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court) is often hailed as a pioneer in integration through law. Existing scholarship on the Court’s judicial power overwhelmingly focuses on constitu-tionalisation and the horizontal policy dimension. As a result, the judicial techniques behind the Court’s policy-making and the ensuing implications for domestic policies remain largely understudied. The re-cent deconstitutionalisation of EU law begs the question as to whether the Court can steer national policies through its case-law without constitutionalising policy outcomes. The Article responds to this gap, by empirically investigating the legal techniques underpinning the Court’s policy-making in a de-constitutionalised manner and the ensuing implications for Member States’ policies. The analysis exam-ines the legal reasoning in all cases where the Court applies the provisions of Directive 2004/38 by anal-ogy, as an example of the deconstitutionalisation process, and traces the responses of all Member States to the Court’s jurisprudence. The findings illustrate that the creation of rights through the analo-gous application of Directive 2004/38 enables the Court to diplomatically balance competing interests and is successful in generating judicial Europeanisation in the domain of migration.
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Judicial Europeanisation Through Deconstitutionalisation: The Case of the Analogous Application of the Citizenship Directive
European Papers
court of justice of the european union
european citizenship
judicial europeanisation
deconstitutionalisation
integration through law
migration policy
title Judicial Europeanisation Through Deconstitutionalisation: The Case of the Analogous Application of the Citizenship Directive
title_full Judicial Europeanisation Through Deconstitutionalisation: The Case of the Analogous Application of the Citizenship Directive
title_fullStr Judicial Europeanisation Through Deconstitutionalisation: The Case of the Analogous Application of the Citizenship Directive
title_full_unstemmed Judicial Europeanisation Through Deconstitutionalisation: The Case of the Analogous Application of the Citizenship Directive
title_short Judicial Europeanisation Through Deconstitutionalisation: The Case of the Analogous Application of the Citizenship Directive
title_sort judicial europeanisation through deconstitutionalisation the case of the analogous application of the citizenship directive
topic court of justice of the european union
european citizenship
judicial europeanisation
deconstitutionalisation
integration through law
migration policy
url https://www.europeanpapers.eu/en/e-journal/judicial-europeanisation-through-deconstitutionalisation-the-case-analogous-application-citizenship-directive
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