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  Justice, legitimacy and the authority of legislation within the European Union

van den Brink, M. (2019). Justice, legitimacy and the authority of legislation within the European Union. Modern Law Review, 82(2), 293-318. doi:10.1111/1468-2230.12406.

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 Abstract: What are we to make of the authority of legislation within the EU? EU lawyers have questioned the significance of legislative decision‐making within the EU. This article challenges these views and argues that the EU legislature must enjoy adequate freedom to shape EU law with the general interest in mind. Institutional accounts that seek to curtail the authority of legislation tend to rest upon ‘content‐dependent’ conceptions of political legitimacy, according to which the legitimacy of a decision depends on its moral qualities. Such conceptions overlook reasonable disagreements on justice and rest upon an overly optimistic (pessimistic) view of the Court (the legislature). The article argues for a content‐independent conception of legitimacy, following which the benefits of legislative decision‐making are more easily understood. The authority of legislation deserves wider recognition among EU lawyers for reasons of political legitimacy and because the EU legislature is better positioned to decide in the general interest.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2019-03-052019-03
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 82 (2) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 293 - 318 Identifier: -