{"id":9282,"date":"2024-03-07T16:30:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-en\/?post_type=events&#038;p=9282"},"modified":"2024-03-07T16:30:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:30:44","slug":"the-role-of-the-cjeu-as-an-exponent-of-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-en\/events\/the-role-of-the-cjeu-as-an-exponent-of-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of the CJEU as an Exponent of the Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-custom-buttons btn-list\"><li class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-custom-button\"    aria-disabled=\"false\"\n    >\n    <a\n        role=\"link\"\n        aria-disabled=\"false\"\n                    href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.fr\/e\/the-role-of-the-cjeu-as-an-exponent-of-the-rule-of-law-tickets-846462200227?aff=oddtdtcreator\"\n                target=\"_blank\"\n        class=\"btn btn--primary\"\n            >Registration<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-custom-button\"    aria-disabled=\"false\"\n    >\n    <a\n        role=\"link\"\n        aria-disabled=\"false\"\n                    href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-en\/calendar?post_type=events&#038;p=9282&#038;calendar\"\n                target=\"_self\"\n        class=\"btn btn--secondary\"\n            >Add to calendar<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-spacer is-spacer-size-sm\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The Faculty of Law of the University of Luxembourg is pleased to present the seminar held by Prof. Oliver Gerstenberg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is\u2014and what should be\u2014the role of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in promoting and upholding the rule of law (\u201cRoL\u201d) in the EU? This paper argues that the core framework values expressed in Art. 2 TEU serve as an overarching EU principle of legitimacy: only claims to national identity that reflect\u2014are interpretively continuous with\u2014the framework values of Art. 2 TEU deserve \u201crespect\u201d under Art. 4 (2) TEU. In this way, the EU constitutionalism does not displace Member States, but instead actually preserves their specific identities if, but only if, those identities are respect-worthy in the light of mutually shared values of liberal constitutional democracy expressed in Art. 2 TEU. This paper explores this argument with two case constellations in mind: first, cases on the protection of judicial independence, second, cases on same-sex parenthood. The paper argues that the CJEU can exert a socially modernizing role when \u201cmodern\u201d and \u201ctraditional\u201d values are in conflict and that the CJEU can serve democracy by enlarging traditional understandings of national identity in the light of what history and shared EU values command, but that this modernizing role also requires a thin conception of the EU RoL.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-spacer is-spacer-size-sm\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>About <strong>Prof. Oliver Gerstenberg<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Oliver Gerstenberg<\/strong><\/em> teaches EU law and Jurisprudence at UCL LAWS, currently as Associate Professor. He is also Member of the Project Team on the European Law Institute (Vienna) on&nbsp;<em>Fundamental Constitutional Principles of a European Democracy<\/em>. In the past, he has held a JF Kennedy Fellowship at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard and a Law-and-Public-Affairs Fellowship at Princeton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among his recent publications are<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"ulux-list\">\n<li class=\"ulux-list-item\">&#8220;<em>Euroconstitutionalism and Its Discontents<\/em>&nbsp;(Oxford Constitutional Theory Series: 2018);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"ulux-list-item\"><em>Fundamental Rights and Democratic Sovereignty in the EU: The Role of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in Regulating the European Social Market Economy<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Yearbook of European Law (vol. 39: 2020, pp. 199\u2014227);<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"ulux-list-item\">The uncertain structure of process review in the EU: beyond the debate on the CJEU&#8217;s Weiss ruling and the German Federal Constitutional Court&#8217;s PSPP ruling.&nbsp;<em>Jus Cogens; Horizontal Effect<\/em>. In R. Bellamy, &amp; J. King (Eds.),&nbsp;<em>Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory<\/em>. Cambridge University Press (2024);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"ulux-list-item\"><em>The Constitution as a Law of Lawmaking. Reflections on Frank Michelman\u2019s Constitutional Essentials<\/em>, in: Philosophy and Social Criticism (forthcoming 2024).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-spacer is-spacer-size-sm\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is a hybrid event that offers both in-person and virtual attendance options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"ulux-list\">\n<li class=\"ulux-list-item\">Online: <a href=\"https:\/\/unilu.webex.com\/unilu\/j.php?MTID=mba4852b28d2965bf8e598e198e17cd3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/unilu.webex.com\/unilu\/j.php?MTID=mba4852b28d2965bf8e598e198e17cd3b<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"ulux-list-item\">In person: University of Luxembourg | Campus Kirchberg \u2013 Weicker Building | Room B001 (Ground floor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-spacer is-spacer-size-sm\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a free seminar. 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