This joint event organised by The Human and Fundamental Rights Working Group and the European Union Law Working Group hosts a paper presentation by Dora Kostakopoulou.
EU citizenship and fundamental rights are contextually related, that is, situated within the emergence of a political European Union, but they are also normatively connected. In addition, the increased significance of one institution is conditioned by the increased significance of the other. Deepening and increasing the inter-connections between the Charter of Fundamental Rights and EU Citizenship create more opportunities for the enrichment of both institutions. The article makes the case for the legal recognition of the principle non-regression in fundamental rights protection in the EU legal order and for a future constitutional innovation of allowing individuals direct access to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The latter would neutralise attempts by national courts and tribunals to shield illegalities and fundamental rights violations taking place in national arenas from wider scrutiny and effective judicial review.
Dora Kostakopoulou is the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU and has had Jean Monnet Professorial positions in the United Kingdom. She has been British Academy, Thank Offering to Britain Fellow (2003-2004) and recipient of an Innovation Award by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2004-2005). She is the author of Citizenship, Identity and Immigration in the European Union: Between Past and Future (2001, Manchester University Press), The Future Governance of Citizenship which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008 (Law in Context Series), Institutional Constructivism in Social Sciences and Law: Frames of Mind, Patterns of Change (2018, Cambridge University Press) and European Union Citizenship Law and Policy (2020, Elgar, European Law Series). Her articles have appeared in the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Columbia Journal of European Law, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Modern Law Review, European Law Journal, European Law Review, Journal of Common Market Studies, Political Studies, European Political Science, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, European Journal of Migration and Law, European Security, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, International Journal of Law in Context and the Journal of Political Philosophy. Further information can be found here.
All interested fellows, PhD researchers, professors and visiting academics are invited to participate. The paper can be accessed here. The event will take place online.