Judicial Legitimacy and the Preliminary Ruling Process in the European Union

• In Event: European Political Institutions

Brief Overview

We posit that national courts’ incentives to protect their institutional legitimacy and to utilize public support to compel compliance with court decisions affect their strategic choice to make references over questions of EU law to the CJEU.

Authors

• Hyeonho Hahm, University of Mannheim

• David Dominik Hilpert, University of Mannheim