Luke Dimitrios Spieker

Dr. iur., Maîtrise en droit (Paris II), LL.M. (King's College London), Senior Research Fellow

spieker@mpil.de
Tel. +49 (6221) 482-412

Main Fields of Research:

Constitutional Law | European Law | EU Law (esp. EU Constitutional Law) | EU values | Relationship of national constitutional courts and ECJ

Academic Career:

Since 08/2022	Senior Research Fellow at MPIL
08/2018 - 07/2022	Research Fellow at MPIL
	Institute Projects: EU Values in Crisis, Kernverfassungsrecht der Europäischen Union
10/2018 - 10/2021	PhD Candidate under the supervision of Armin von Bogdandy
	Dissertation: EU Values before the Court of Justice. Foundations, Potential, Risks (summa cum laude) Awarded the Wilhelm Bender Dissertation Prize 2022 by Goethe University Frankfurt
03 - 05/2021	Visiting researcher at the European University Institute, Florence

Recent Publications

Monographs

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  EU Values Before the Court of Justice. Foundations, Potential, Risks. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2023, 384 S., im Erscheinen Oxford Studies in European Law
  

Journal articles | contributions to edited volumes

• The conflict over the Polish disciplinary regime for judges – An acid test for judicial independence, Union values and the primacy of EU law: Commission v. Poland. In: Common Market Law Review 59, 777-812 (2022). CML Rev.
  
• How the European Rule of Law Can Support Democratic Transitions: On the Criminal Responsibility of Biased Judges. In: ECB Legal Conference 2021. Continuity and change – How the challenges of today prepare the ground for tomorrow. ECB, Frankfurt a.M. 2022, 197-210 (zusammen mit Armin von Bogdandy). ECB (Open Access)
  

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Werte, Vorrang, Identität: Der Dreiklang europäischer Justizkonflikte vor dem EuGH. In: Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht 33, 305-313 (2022). EuZW


Defending Union Values in Judicial Proceedings. On How to Turn Article 2 TEU into a Judicially Applicable Provision. In: Defending Checks and Balances in EU Member States, Armin von Bogdandy et al. (ed.). Springer, Berlin 2021, 237-268. Springer (Open Access)


"The importance of being earnest": On frank words and missed opportunities in the CJEU’s A.B. judgment. In: Quaderni Costituzionali 2, 435-438 (2021). Quaderni


Entry: Supranational Law. In: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Anne Peters, Rüdiger Wolfrum (eds.). OUP, Oxford 2021 (zusammen mit Achilles Skordas). MPEPIL


Framing and managing constitutional identity conflicts: How to stabilize the modus vivendi between the Court of Justice and national constitutional courts. In: Common Market Law Review 57, 361-398 (2020). CML Rev.


Protecting Fundamental Rights Beyond the Charter: Repositioning the Reverse Solange Doctrine in Light of the CJEU's Article 2 TEU Case-Law. In: The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in the Member States, Michal Bobek, Jeremias Adams-Prassl (eds.). Hart, Oxford 2020, 525-546 (with Armin von Bogdandy). Hart


Werteverteidigung im Binnenmarkt? Das ungarische Transparenzgesetz auf dem Prüfstand des EuGH. In: EuZW 31, 854-858 (2020). EuZW


Reverse Solange 2.0: Die Durchsetzung europäischer Werte und die unions- und strafrechtliche Verantwortung nationaler Richter. In: Europarecht 55, 301-332 (2020) (zusammen mit Armin von Bogdandy). EuR


I valori dell'Articolo 2 del TUE, la Reverse Solange e la responsabilità dei giudici nazionali. In: Percorsi Costituzionali 2-3.2018, 347-388 (2020) (zusammen mit Armin von Bogdandy). Percorsi (PDF, 250.9 KB)


Breathing Life into the Union’s Common Values: On the Judicial Application of Article 2 TEU in the EU Value Crisis. In: German Law Journal 20, 1182-1213 (2019). GLJ (Open Access)


Countering the Judicial Silencing of Critics: Article 2 TEU Values, Reverse Solange, and the Responsibilities of National Judges. In: European Constitutional Law Review 15, 391-426 (2019) (zusammen mit Armin von Bogdandy). EuConst (Open Access)


Does Article 15 ECHR Still Matter in Military Operations Abroad? The UK government's 'Presumption to Derogate’ – Much Ado about Nothing? In: ZaöRV (Heidelberg Journal of International Law) 79, 155-183 (2019). ZaöRV (Open Access)


Die Identitätskontrolle des BVerfG und ihr Verhältnis zum Schutz der nationalen Identität durch den EuGH. In: Jurisdiktionskonflikte, Matthias Klatt (ed.). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, 111-144. Nomos


Working Papers

Transformative Constitutionalism in Luxembourg: How the Court Can Support Democratic Transitions. MPIL Research Paper No. 14, 2022 (zusammen mit Armin von Bogdandy). SSRN


From Moral Values to Legal Obligations – On How to Activate the Union’s Common Values in the EU Rule of Law Crisis. MPIL Research Paper No. 24, 2018. SSRN

Blogposts

• Berlaymont is back: The Commission invokes Article 2 TEU as self-standing plea in infringement proceedings over Hungarian LGBTIQ rights violations. EU Law Live, 22 February 2023. EU Law Live
  
• How to Set Aside Hungarian Cardinal Laws: A Suggestion for a Democratic Transition. Verfassungsblog, 18. März 2022 (zusammen mit Armin von Bogdandy). Text
  
• Restoring the Rule of Law Through Criminal Responsibility. Verfassungsblog, 10. Dezember 2021 (zusammen mit Armin von Bogdandy). Text
  
• The Court gives with one hand and takes away with the other: The CJEU’s judgment in Miasto Łowicz. Verfassungsblog, 26. März 2020. Text
  
• Commission v. Poland – A Stepping Stone Towards a Strong “Union of Values”?. Verfassungsblog, 30. Mai 2019. Text
  
• Countering the Judicial Silencing of Critics: Novel Ways to Enforce European Values. Verfassungsblog, 06. März 2019 (zusammen mit Armin von Bogdandy). Text
  

Honours

Miscellaneous