Susceptibility to Unlawful Countermeasures for Scenario 2 (Legal, but Unacceptable) Rulings

Cotter, John

Abstract

This chapter, to test the hypothesis established in Chapter 6, examines the extent to which the Court of Justice's countervailing powers may utilise unlawful court-destroying, -harming, -curbing, or accountability measures where the Court adheres to legal doctrine and accepted techniques, but arrives at outcomes which are adverse to one or more of these countervailing powers ('scenario 2' rulings). Utilising a mixture of legal analysis and the political science theories of neofunctionalism and intergovernmentalism, the chapter analyses the possibility of the Court's countervailing powers utilising unlawful countermeasures such as non-compliance to punish and/or deter the Court.

Citation

Cotter, J. (2022). Susceptibility to Unlawful Countermeasures for Scenario 2 (Legal, but Unacceptable) Rulings. . Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979559.00016

• Acceptance Date: May 6, 2022
• Publication Date: May 6, 2022
• Deposit Date: Jun 2, 2023
• Pages: 148-163
• ISBN: 9781788979559; 9781788979542; 9781788979559
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979559.00016