'The CJEU, its legal reasoning, and its interaction with its Advocates-General': CELS Seminar

Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Seminar Series

29-11-2023 • 42 mins

Speaker: Eleanor Sharpston KC, Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024) Abstract: The CJEU is a court that speaks through a single judgment, and that ‘dialogues’ with its Advocates General without ever saying quite what that dialogue means. What is the reader to make of the interplay between the individual opinion of the advocate general and the collective decision of the judges? The final seminar in the series asks some questions, suggests some partial answers, and invites reflection on whether the current arrangements should ‘evolve’ (and, if so, in what direction). For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series