PRECEDENTS OF SOLUTION AND COURT OF JUSTICE OF EUROPEAN UNION
Filip Gołba
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University in Krakov , PolandAbstract
Article elaborates on how Court of Justice of European Union treats its precedential rulings. Its principal purpose is to examine the distinction between precedent of solution and precedent of interpretation and assess whether the distinction
may serve the purpose of reconciliation of Court of Justice’s heavy reliance on precedent with reluctance toward recognising precedent as a formal source of law manifested by civil law lawyers. According to some scholars, Court of Justice’s
precedents are merely precedents of interpretation, therefore they are not instance of judge-made law. Herein, it is argued, that the distinction is insufficient to prove their conviction is right.
Keywords:
European Court of Justice, precedent of solution, precedent of interpretationReferences
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Gołba, F. (2020). PRECEDENTS OF SOLUTION AND COURT OF JUSTICE OF EUROPEAN UNION. Review of European and Comparative Law, 25(2), 61–72. https://doi.org/10.31743/recl.11763
Filip Gołba
filip.golba@doctoral.uj.edu.pl
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University in Krakov
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University in Krakov
