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, Democratic Transitions in EU Member States, ​​​​​​​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 Otto Hahn Medal 2023 by the Max Planck Society and the Wilhelm Bender Dissertation Prize 2022 by Goethe University Frankfurt
03 - 05/2021	Visiting researcher at the European University Institute, Florence

Recent Publications

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Monographs

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

Journal articles | contributions to edited volumes

• Transformative Constitutionalism in Luxembourg: How the Court Can Support Democratic Transitions. In: Columbia Journal of European Law 29, 65-92 (2023) (zusammen mit Armin von Bogdandy). CJEL (Open Access) Download article here (PDF, 414.3 KB)
  

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Beyond the Rule of Law: How the Court of Justice can Protect Conditions for Democratic Change in the Member States. In: The Rule of Law in the EU: Crisis and Solutions, Anna Södersten, Edwin Hercock (eds.). SIEPS, Stockholm 2023, 72-78. SIEPS (Open Access) Download article here (PDF, 88.0 KB)


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. Download article here (PDF, 482.0 KB)


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)


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 Download article here (PDF, 75.2 KB)


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. Download article here (PDF, 1710.1 KB)


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). Download article here (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