TY - BOOK A1 - Dawson, Mark A1 - de Witte, Floris T1 - EU Law and Governance N2 - What is the EU for? In light of the current state of European integration, EU law cannot meaningfully be appreciated without understanding the political, social and cultural context within which it operates. This textbook proposes a fresh, accessible and interdisciplinary take on the subject that is suitable for one-semester and introductory courses wishing to engage the reader with the wider context of the EU project. It situates the institutions, legal order and central policy domains of the EU in their context and offer students the tools to critically analyse and reflect on European integration and its consequences. With pedagogical features such as further reading, class questions and essay/exams questions to support learning, this textbook enables students to form their own informed opinion on whether the EU offers an appropriate answer to the many questions that it is asked. Y1 - 2022 SN - 9781108836173 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108864046 PB - Cambridge ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bobić, Ana A1 - Dawson, Mark T1 - How can law contribute to accountability in EU monetary policy? T2 - The Cambridge Handbook on European Monetary, Economic and Financial Market Integration Y1 - 2022 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dawson, Mark T1 - The accountability of non-governmental actors in the digital sphere: A theoretical framework JF - European Law Journal N2 - The last decade has seen increasing demands for greater accountability in digital governance. What, however, does accountability require and what normative goods does it serve? This article develops a general framework for assessing digital accountability focused on four normative goods: openness, non-arbitrariness, effectiveness and publicness. As the article will evidence, claims for digital accountability often refer to deficits relating to one or more of these goods. While scholarly attention has deservedly focused on tying powerful digital actors to rule of law guarantees, the article argues that accountability offers an important normative yardstick to allow citizens to contest digital decisions beyond strict legality. The framework therefore provides a basis for both conceptually disaggregating and normatively forwarding accountability claims in the digital sphere. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12420 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dawson, Mark T1 - What Does it Mean to Say that the Court of Justice is not a Human Rights Institution? A Critical Appraisal JF - Journal of Human Rights Practice N2 - What role does the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) and EU law play in elaborating the rights and principles embodied by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)? Over the last 20 years, human (or ‘fundamental’) rights have become a constant part of the way the CJEU interprets and applies EU law. In a period where fundamental rights and values are increasingly under threat both globally and in Europe, judicial institutions remain an important last bastion of protection. Commenting on Judge Rosas’ (2007) observation that the CJEU is not in fact a human rights Court, three critical questions are derived: The first question is the most related to this special issue. What does the development of the CJEU—an institution with human rights responsibilities—mean for general international human rights law? The second takes up Judge Rosas’ observation that the CJEU, unlike the Strasbourg Court, has extensive judicial responsibilities beyond human rights. What does the development of EU human rights law mean for EU law more broadly? Finally, if Judge Rosas is right that the CJEU is not a human rights Court, what does that mean for its relationship to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the other organs of the Council of Europe? In answer to this last question, the article cautiously advances the argument that the very fact that the CJEU is not a human rights Court implies a more robust role than Judge Rosas suggests for external review of EU law by international human rights bodies. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huab023 VL - 4 IS - 1 SP - 215 EP - 222 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bois, Julien A1 - Dawson, Mark T1 - Chapter 7: Sociological institutionalism as a lens to study judicialization: a bridge between legal scholarship and political science T2 - The Politics of European Legal Research N2 - Judicialization - and the influence of trans-national Courts - seems a perfect object of study for inter-disciplinary research and a potential spur for methodological innovation. In the case of the European Courts, however, this chapter argues that divides between law and political science have impeded the developments of accounts of judicialization able to take both the legal and political aspects of judicial activity seriously. The chapter discusses sociological institutionalism as an alternative approach to judicialisation. By stressing the importance of legal norms in structuring the 'space' for legal agency while abstaining from the assumption that norms apply equally in all situations, sociological institutionalism provides an inter- disciplinary framework for the study of Courts able to act as a bridge between both disciplines. As the chapter will conclude, while institutionalist approaches are complex and time-consuming, their focus on the language, ideas and cultural assumptions of actors and institutions provide a compelling method for the study of judicial behaviour. Y1 - 2022 SN - 9781802201185 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802201192.00014 SP - 94 EP - 108 ER - TY - EDBOOK A1 - Dawson, Mark A1 - Jachtenfuchs, Markus ED - Dawson, Mark ED - Jachtenfuchs, Markus T1 - Autonomy without collapse in a Better European Union N2 - The European Union's history exhibits numerous episodes in which Member States have sought to re-enforce their national autonomy in the face of deepening integration. Efforts to re-gain autonomy, however, are often accompanied by legitimate concerns that autonomy will lead to dis-integration or will have wider destructive consequences. The EU thus faces a dilemma. Calls for autonomy cannot all be dismissed as mere populist rhetoric or national egoism but instead represent a legitimate questioning of the degree of uniformity that EU law and politics presently carry. At the same time, the fear that greater autonomy may carry dis-integrative effects is also legitimate -uniformity is not an accidental by-product of the EU's construction but intrinsically related to its policy goals. Giving too much room for autonomy might create an opportunity structure for the loss of collective goods, deficits in problem-solving, and perhaps even to self-destruction. The EU requires autonomy, but in doing so, it must also avoid collapse. Can it achieve it, and if so, how? Autonomy without Collapse is devoted to exploring innovative answers to this question. It draws together scholars in law and political science interested in exploring how to overcome the central dilemma of preserving sustainable yet real autonomy in the future European Union. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/autonomy-without-collapse-in-a-better-european-union-9780192897541?cc=de&lang=en&# SN - 9780192897541 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dawson, Mark A1 - Jachtenfuchs, Markus ED - Dawson, Mark ED - Jachtenfuchs, Markus T1 - Autonomy without Collapse? Towards a Better European Union. T2 - Autonomy without Collapse in a Better European Union Y1 - 2022 UR - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/autonomy-without-collapse-in-a-better-european-union-9780192897541?cc=de&lang=en&# SN - 9780192897541 SP - 3 EP - 20 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER -