{"id":506,"date":"2016-01-31T09:23:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T08:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=506"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:20:39","slug":"judicial-politics-under-article-344-tfeu-and-what-it-could-mean-for-judicial-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/publication\/judicial-politics-under-article-344-tfeu-and-what-it-could-mean-for-judicial-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Judicial politics under Article 344 TFEU and what it could mean for judicial dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Extrait<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La pr\u00e9sente contribution se penche sur la jurisprudence de la Cour concernant l\u2019article 344 TFUE en vue d\u2019identifier sa bienveillance \u00e0 s\u2019ouvrir aux autres cours internationales et aux ordres juridiques internationaux, ce qui est ind\u00e9niablement une condition pr\u00e9alable pour un dialogue judiciaire significatif. L\u2019interpr\u00e9tation de l\u2019article 344 TFUE par la Cour et son insistance sur l\u2019autonomie de l\u2019ordre juridique de l\u2019UE ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9crites comme \u00e9tant autarciques. En des termes plus neutres, on peut aussi concevoir l\u2019attitude de la Cour comme le r\u00e9sultat de sa conscience de soi, qui la fait se percevoir comme la cour supr\u00eame et constitutionnelle de l\u2019ordre juridique de l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne. La Cour partage ce trait avec quelques cours constitutionnelles des \u00c9tats membres de l\u2019UE, ce qui fait que ce n\u2019est pas par hasard que les relations entre ces cours constitutionnelles et la Cour de justice ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tendues de temps en temps. Bien que cela serve \u00e0 contextualiser le comportement de la Cour, cela n\u2019\u00f4te rien \u00e0 la conclusion que la position de la Cour est probl\u00e9matique pour le dialogue judiciaire. En outre, la position de la Cour n\u2019est tenable que si les autres juridictions internationales acceptent la Cour de justice comme un primus inter pares des tribunaux internationaux. Cette pr\u00e9misse se revendiquerait erron\u00e9e si la prolif\u00e9ration des syst\u00e8mes et tribunaux internationaux se poursuit, ce qui est assez bien illustr\u00e9 par l\u2019activisme judiciaire du TIDM.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The present contribution looks at the Court\u2019s jurisprudence on Article 344 TFEU to shed greater light on the Court\u2019s willingness to open up to other international courts and legal orders, an undeniable pre-condition to any meaningful judicial dialogue. The Court\u2019s interpretation of Article 344 TFEU and its insistence on autonomy has been described by some as autarkic. In more neuter non-legal terms, the Court\u2019s attitude may be seen as a result of its self-consciousness being the supreme and constitutional court of the EU legal order, a trait it shares with some constitutional courts of the EU Member States. Not coincidentally these courts at times also entertain difficult relationship with the Court. While this puts the Court\u2019s attitude in context it does not deter from the conclusion that the Court\u2019s position is problematic from the perspective of judicial dialogue. In addition, the Court\u2019s position only seems tenable if other international courts accept the CJEU as a kind of primus inter pares of international courts. This premise may come under pressure with the ongoing proliferation of international legal systems and tribunals. ITLOS\u2019 judicial activism may serve as an illustration of this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Geneva JMWP 17-Chamon.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Geneva_JMWP_17-Chamon.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acc\u00e8s au texte &#8211; Access to full text<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","publication_tax":[47],"class_list":["post-506","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","publication_tax-working-paper"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/506\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_tax?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}