Ambiguity in Eu Law - A Linguistic and Legal Analysis

This interdisciplinary investigation presents in-depth linguistic and legal analysis of ambiguity found in the text of key provisions of EU Treaties and in the language of some of the CJEU's leading preliminary rulings in the area of fundamental rights, freedom of movement and EU citizenship.

List of contents

Part 1: In Search of the Strategic Value of Ambiguity for the Authority of EU Law 1. Introduction 2. Ambiguity in Legal Texts 3. Ambiguity in EU Law 4. A Framework for Analysis Part 2: The Case Studies 1. Judicial Activism Reconsidered?: The CJEU’s Strategic Resolution of Ambiguity in Melloni (Case C-399/11) 2. Judicial Activism Reinvented?: The CJEU’s Strategic Production of Ambiguity in Åkerberg Fransson (Case C-617/10) 3. Judicial Restraint Reconfirmed?: The CJEU’s Strategic Resolution of Ambiguity in Keck (Joint cases C-267/91 and C-268/91) 4. Judicial Activism in Retrospect?: The CJEU’s Strategic Resolution of Ambiguity in Ruiz Zambrano (Case C-34/09) and Dereci (C-256/11) Part 3: Ambiguity as a Desirable Systemic Feature of the EU Legal Order

About the author

Dr. iur. Sofiya Kartalova is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Public Law at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

Summary

This interdisciplinary investigation presents in-depth linguistic and legal analysis of ambiguity found in the text of key provisions of EU Treaties and in the language of some of the CJEU’s leading preliminary rulings in the area of fundamental rights, freedom of movement and EU citizenship.

Product details

• Authors: Sofiya Kartalova, Sofiya (Max Planck Institute for the St Kartalova
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781032279909
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3227990-9
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Law, Language and Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Linguistics, LAW / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LAW / Courts, LAW / Public, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Legal Writing, Public International Law, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law