This paper reflects on the background and merits of the forthcoming Irish challenge to the first pillar legal base of the Data Retention Directive in C-301/06 Ireland v. Council and European Parliament and attempts to place the case in a wider context, that of the relationship between Ireland...

The research briefing provides an impartial assessment and summary in a research briefing on key issues as to digital trade and data equivalences post-Brexit for the External Affairs Committee of Senedd Cymru primarily from a legal perspective.The paper provides an overview of the concept of...

The ‘global' forms an increasingly regular, active and explicit part of the daily business of the EU. The paper argues that there is a specific mismatch between the commitment to transparency on a daily level in international and external fields and practices of EU law and the actual...

The ability of Member States to determine the rights of third country nationals to move, reside with and join their European Union (EU) citizen spouses might be thought to go to the heart of Member State sovereignty to control immigration matters. Despite the introduction of Directive...

This article argues that Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations have a positive legal story worth recounting as to the effects of the negotiations upon the EU legal order. The paper explores the negotiation of EU international agreements as a specific field of law and...

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the new trade agreement between the EU and the US, has a great ambition: not only if measured by the size of the emergent market, but also the potential spill over of its regulatory standards to the global level. The cooperation between...

Considers post-Lisbon settlement and Irish-British-Euro relations in light of opt-outs opt-ins negotiated. Assessment of the impact of Common Travel Area and Schengen Protocol on Irish-British-Euro-relations

This special issue addresses the question of EU law as Global Governance law and the constitutional and regulatory divisions between EU law and Global Governance law. There is an increasing tendency for the Court of Justice to adopt a sui generis approach to International law but also to protect...

The paper assesses the indirect contribution of the Court of Justice to the promotion of global standards in the EU-ETS decision. The paper explores the effects of the EU-ETS directive, the decision of the Court and the actions of the House of Representatives to prohibit the application of EU...