Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Heidelberg Journal of International Law

Planck Institute in Heidelberg in January 2024 to discuss and celebrate ‘70 Years of EU Law’ based on a book written by lawyers working in the Commission Legal Service. The book invites us to look backwards at the great achievements of the past....

This Article uses 70 Years of EU Law – A Union for Its Citizens to illustrate how different positionalities in the present lead to divergent (re-)constructions of the past of European Union (EU) law. This, in turn, configures different...

The recent portrayal of legal evolutions in the last 70-odd years by the Legal Service of the European Commission paints a remarkably rosy picture of the European Union’s (EU) role as a promotor of the universality and indivisibility of human...

This article interrogates the celebratory narrative advanced in 70 Years of EU Law – A Union for Its Citizens. It focuses on those aspects of European Union (EU) law’s history that are omitted from the narrative or only appear in a heavily...

Reading the Legal Service’s book on ‘70 Years of EU Law’, one could almost have the impression that the EU is not in the business of combating crime and upholding public safety. In this contribution, I argue that this narrative choice is no...

The contribution critically examines the idea that the common values from Art. 2 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) constitute the identity of the European Union (EU) legal order. This idea, formulated by the Court of Justice in the rule of law...

In its book on 70 Years of European Union (EU) Law, the Commission’s Legal Service characterises EU citizenship as a status ‘in the service of EU citizens’ which, to a large extent, has been developed through European Court of Justice (ECJ)...

European Union (EU) integration is political and contingent, yet many legal accounts portray it as a process of steady institutional expansion and individual emancipation. This framing is particularly problematic for the social dimension of...

This paper critically analyses the taxation chapter in the book 70 Years of EU Law – A Union for Its Citizens (2023), edited by the Legal Service of the European Union (EU) Commission. The said chapter provides a clear explanation of how...

The European Union’s (EU) geoeconomic turn has had a considerable impact on decision-making that involves security considerations. Tools such as the Foreign Subsidies Regulation or the Anti-Coercion Instrument address the weaponisation of...

This paper examines how far, and in what way, the decision-making of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has been integral to the formation of the European Union (EU) legal system, and what this means for the study of EU law. Taking the volume 70...

Päivi Leino-Sandberg’s opening contribution to this special issue identifies deficits in the Commission’s book 70 Years of EU Law. This concluding contribution explores its promise, as expressed in its subtitle ‘A Union for Its Citizens’....