CELS Lunchtime Seminar: 'Who’s Afraid of the Charter? The European Court of Justice, National Courts and the New Framework of Fundamental Rights Protection in Europe'

A lecture by Daniel Sarmiento Ramirez-Escudero, Référendaire, CJEU

Daniel Sarmiento Ramirez-Escudero will speak on the topic of "Who’s Afraid of the Charter? The European Court of Justice, National Courts and the New Framework of Fundamental Rights Protection in Europe".

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union has forced the European Court of Justice and its national counterparts to face a series of difficult and principled questions: Who is the ultimate interpreter of fundamental rights in Europe? Which are the standard of protection to be given priority? How does the Charter bind Member States when applying EU Law? It will be argued that the first seminal decisions of the European Court of Justice on the matter, in particular the judgments in Akerberg Fransson and Melloni, have set the ground for a new framework of fundamental rights protection in the European Union. However, this framework does not depend on the sole authority of the Luxembourg court, but on a complex system of checks and balances that will demand complicity and commitment on the part of national supreme and constitutional courts

Time    :  1pm (with a sandwich lunch from 12.45pm)

Venue  :  B16, Faculty of Law

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