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What is the Added Value of the Concept of the “Essence” of EU Fundamental Rights?

  • This Article introduces our Special Issue by posing a central question: What is the added value of the increasing prominence of the concept of the “essence” of fundamental rights in EU law? It will address this larger question in four steps: First, by examining the function of the concept in EU law and the methods for its derivation; second, by summarizing how its application diverges across EU—and international—law; third, by outlining some enduring difficulties with the essence concept; and finally, by reflecting on its future role in EU law, including its impact on other sites of legal authority—such as domestic fundamental rights, the political institutions of the EU, and international human rights law. As the other articles of this issue demonstrate, while there is not yet a coherent approach to deriving and understanding the essence of rights across the fundamental rights the EU must protects, the essence concept plays an increasingly significant role in demarcating the boundaries between the EU’s legal and political orders and between overlapping sites of legal authority. Recent developments—such as the rule of law “crises”—are likely to further amplify the importance of “essence” to EU law practice and scholarship.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Mark DawsonORCiD, Orla Lynskey, Elise Muir
Parent Title (English):German Law Journal
Publication year:2019
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:763
Last Page:778
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2019.61
Release Date:2020/01/30
Volume:20
Issue:Special Issue 6
Hertie School Research:Jacques Delors Centre
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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