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On the Democratic Legitimacy of Europe's Judges. The Selection of the Strasbourg and Luxembourg Benches

Head of Section:

Armin von Bogdandy

About the Project:

This research project deals with the selection procedures for judges to the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the EU. Both courts effectively exercise public authority in the European legal area. This demands a democratic perspective on the selection of their judges. Accordingly, this project reconstructs the selection procedures in light of the democratic principles in the law of the EU and the Council of Europe. The project comparatively analyses the procedures for concretizing criteria for judicial selection and for applying these criteria in individual selection procedures. It carves out potentials for reform to improve the democratic legitimacy of Europe’s judges.

Publications

  • Von Bogdandy, Armin, Christoph Krenn: Zur Parlamentarisierung der Richterauswahl. Warum der Europarat der EU den Weg weist. In: Modelle des Parlamentarismus im 21. Jahrhundert. Neue Ordnungen von Recht und Politik, Claudio Franzius, Franz C. Mayer, Jürgen Neyer (eds.). Recht und Politik in der Europäischen Union. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, 409-429.
  • von Bogdandy, Armin, Christoph Krenn: Sobre la legitimidad democrática de los jueces de Europa. Una reconstrucción comparada de principios de los procedimientos de selección. In: La garantía jurisdiccional de los Derechos Humanos, Juan Ignacio Ugartemendia Eceizabarrena, Alejandro Saiz Arnaiz, Mariela Morales Antoniazzi (eds.). IVAP, Oñati 2015, 156-177.
  • von Bogdandy, Armin, Christoph Krenn: On the Democratic Legitimacy of Europe's Judges. A Principled and Comparative Reconstruction of the Selection Procedures. In: Selecting Europe's Judges. A Critical Review of the Appointment Procedures to the European Courts, Michal Bobek (ed.). OUP, Oxford 2015, 162-180.
  • von Bogdandy, Armin, Christoph Krenn: Zur demokratischen Legitimation von Europas Richtern. Eine vergleichende Rekonstruktion der Richterauswahl zu EGMR und EuGH. In: Juristenzeitung 69/11, 529-537 (2014). von Bogdandy_Krenn_Zur demokratischen Legitimation von Europas Richtern (PDF, 164.1 KB)
  • Krenn, Christoph Gegen die Logik der Hinterzimmer. In: Der Standard, 23.04.2015, p. 31. Krenn_Gegen die Logik der Hinterzimmer (PDF, 124.8 KB)