This paper explores some of the issues raised by the absence of due publication of EC secondary legislation in the languages of the new Member States after the 2004 Accession. It first lays down some general principles regarding the publication of legal acts in Community law, pertinent to the...

This paper discusses the application of the European Union Law and the European Convention on Human Rights in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Instead of a country-by-country analysis, we opted for an integrated approach, dividing the paper by subject matter. This illustrates the divergent...

This paper explores two dimensions of the much bespoken spirit of cooperation between the Court of Justice and the national courts. Its first part outlines, with the help of a case study, the more traditional narrative of how the spirit of cooperation drives the preliminary rulings procedure....

This chapter provides a concise introduction into the institution of the Court of Justice of the European Union in a diachronic perspective. It deals with the structure of the Union courts located in Luxembourg; basic information about the type of judicial business the Court of Justice carries...