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Papers

(The median citation count of European Constitutional Law Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
ECL volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	16
ECL volume 19 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	15
The European Central Bank and the European Macroeconomic Constitution	12
Politicising Constitutional Court Appointments in Europe	10
Editorial	8
BPost and Nordzucker: Searching for the Essence of Ne Bis in Idem in European Union Law	7
ECL volume 20 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	7
Recalibrating the ‘Strict Obligations’ Requirement of the Bosphorus Doctrine of Equivalent Protection: The Strasbourg Court vis-à-vis the EU Principle of Mutual Trust	7
Climate litigation, separation of powers and federalism à la belge: a commentary of the Belgian climate case	7
Protection of Constitutional Identity as a Legitimate Aim for Differential Treatment	6
The Case for Judicial Councils as Fourth-Branch Institutions	6
From Classic to Digital Constitutionalism: Reconceptualising the Nexus of Power, Technology and Rights	6
Resisting Surrender on Grounds of Health: Moving beyond the Systemic Deficiencies Requirement in the Area of the European Arrest Warrant?	6
Furthering the Right to Self-Determination by EU Courts: The Western Sahara Decisions of 4 October 2024 and the Völkerrechtsfreundlichkeit of the European Court of Justice	6
The Rule of Law Crisis Was Always Gendered: The Anti-Gender Playbook in Europe	5
Stretching Constitutional Boundaries: The European Health Data Space Regulation and Its Impact on the Public Health Integration Process	5
Cilfit Still Fits	5
The Legality of Covid-19 Travel Restrictions in an ‘Area without Internal Frontiers’	5
The EU Constitution, War and Treaty Interpretation	5
Militant Democracy and the Minority to Majority Effect: on the Importance of Electoral System Design	5
The Democratic Justification of Academic Freedom in EU Law: Article 13 of the EU Charter, the Rule of Law Toolbox, and the Scope for EU Action	4
The Price of Reputation: Freedom of the Press and Proportionality in Real Madrid v Le Monde: ECJ 4 October 2024, Case C-633/22, Real Madrid Club de Fútbol and AE v EE and Sociét	4
Militant Democracy, Populism, Illiberalism: New Challengers and New Challenges	4
ECL volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	4
Beyond the Reach of the People? Admissibility Requirements and Procedures for Citizens’ Initiatives in Comparative Perspective	4

Actors and Roles in EU Law: Asking ‘Who Does What?’ in the European Union Legal System	4
From the Stage to the High Seas: Concluding Thoughts on the Present and Future of EU Legal Studies	4
Introduction to the Special Section	3
The Grand Gala of PNR Litigations: Case C-817/19, Ligue des droits humains v Conseil des ministers	3
A Doctrinal Approach to Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments: Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments in Sweden	3
Conceptualising the Link between Constitutional Degradation and Gender Populism	3
Further Extension of Protection against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation under Directive 2000/78/EC	3
Of Winners and Losers: A Commentary of the Bundesverfassungsgericht ORD Judgment of 6 December 2022	3
European Constitutional Identity as the Unamendable Core of the EU Treaties	3
Time Clash: the Court of Justice Limits the Temporal Scope of Lex Mitior	3
ECL volume 21 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
Broad Scope, Restrained Scrutiny: Interpreting Article 19(2) TEU	2
Controlling the New Rulemakers: A Much-needed Constitutional Framework for Outsourced Regulation	2
ECL volume 19 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2
From Militant Democracy to Normal Politics? How European Democracies Respond to Populist Parties	2
FBF: On the Justiciability of Soft Law and Broadening the Discretion of EU Agencies	1
Thinking EU Militant Democracy beyond the Challenge of Backsliding Member States	1
Constitutional Referrals by Ordinary Courts: A Platform for Judicial Dialogue and Another Toolkit for Judicial Resistance?	1
Official Languages, National Identities and the Protection of Minorities: A Complex Legal Puzzle	1
The Role of Science in the Constitutional Interpretation of Gender-Related Rights: Science For and Against the Risk of Populist Drifts?	1
From Austerity to Solidarity: How Deviations Preserve the EU’s Macro-Constitution	1
Confronting Emergency Politics	1
Constitutional Identity, Legal Autonomy, and Sovereignty	1
ECL volume 19 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Beware these Dworkinian Wolves (in ‘Neo-Elyian’ Clothing)	1
Is It Polexit Yet? Comment on Case K 3/21 of 7 October 2021 by the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland	1
Freedom or Feardom of Expression of Judges? Exploring the ‘Chilling Effect’ on Judicial Speech	1
ECL volume 20 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
Directive Principles, Political Constitutionalism, and Constitutional Culture: the Case of Ireland’s failed Directive Principles of Social Policy	1
Radicalised Conservatism in the Hungarian Constitution: An Analysis of Justifications for Rule of Law Backsliding	1
Human Dignity in Legal Argumentation: A Functional Perspective	1
Restoring the Rule of Law in Poland: Towards the Most Appropriate Way to Put an End to the Systemic Violation of Judicial Independence	1
ECL volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Whose Freedom is it Anyway? The Fundamental Rights of Companies in EU Law	1
Competence Confusions: Why the Vertical Division of Competences Cannot Constrain the Court’s Interpretation of EU Law	1
Citizenship Deprivation in the Courts: Unveiling States’ Constitutional Structures	1
The United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act as a Catalyst of Constitutional Migration: Patterns and Limitations of Rights Importation by Design	1
Constitutionalising a Right to Abortion: Unveiling its Transformative Potential Amidst Challenges in Europe	1
Between Conjugal Duty and Sexual Freedom: The European Court of Human Rights Breaks the Taboo in HW v France	1
ECL volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
The Lazy Legislature: Incorporating and Horizontalising the Charter of Fundamental Rights through Secondary Union Law	1
ECL volume 20 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
The European Convention on Human Rights in Israeli Courts	0
Ritual Slaughter Case: The Court of Justice and the Belgian Constitutional Court Put Animal Welfare First	0
Proportionality during Times of Crisis: Precautionary Application of Proportionality Analysis in the Judicial Review of Emergency Measures	0
Regulating Migration at a Time of Populism. Women’s Rights as a Battleground in the European Populist Migration Legal Framework	0
The Constitutional Costs of the ‘Catalyst of Integration’: A Study on the European Council, Institutional Balance, and Judicial Review	0
The Inapplicability of the Bosphorus Presumption to the European Economic Area Agreement: A Risk for the Coherence of Legal Systems in Europe	0
Memory, Past Evils and Constitutional Justice. Lessons from the United States, Germany and South Africa	0
ECL volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0

The Politics of Form in European Constitutionalism	0
Controlling the Narrative: Hungary’s Post-2010 Strategies of Non-Compliance before the European Court of Human Rights	0
Spain, Judicial Independence, and Judges’ Freedom of Expression: Missing an Opportunity to Leverage the European Constitutional Shift?	0
The Hypocrisy of Authoritarian Populism in Poland: Between the Facade Rhetoric of Political Constitutionalism and the Actual Abuse of Apex Courts	0
Judicial Independence in European Constitutional Law	0
Stateless Union Citizens in a Nationality Conundrum: EU Law Safeguarding Against Broken Promises	0
Schengen’s Ambivalent History	0
Breaking with Lisbon: The German Federal Constitutional Court’s New Approach to EU Democracy and Responsibility for Integration	0
Empirical Constitutional Studies	0
How to Detect Abusive Constitutional Practices	0
Constitutional Courts as Guarantors of EU Charter Rights: A Rhetorical Perspective on Constitutional Change in Austria and Germany	0
What’s the Problem with Populism?	0
A New Presumption for the Autonomous Concept of ‘Court or Tribunal’ in Article 267 TFEU	0
Legal Methods for the Study of EU Institutional Practice	0
Balancing Privacy and the Public Interest: The Application of the ‘General Measures’ Doctrine in L.B. v Hungary in the Absence of Any Substantive Proportionality Assessment	0
Constitutional Design and the Seeds of Degradation in Divided Societies: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina	0
Nationality, Union Citizenship and Constitutional Values after Commission v Malta	0
ECL volume 19 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
Speech without a Speaker: Constitutional Coverage for Generative AI Output?	0
The EU Recovery Instrument and the Constitutional Implications of its Expenditure	0
ECL volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
ECL volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
The Foundations of EU Administrative Law as a Scholarly Field: Functional Comparison, Normativism and Integration	0
The Court of Justice of the EU and the Philosopher’s Stone: the Independent Horizontal Direct Effect of Article 47 of the Charter in K.L. v X	0
ECL volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
EU Law’s Dark Private Legal Space: Researching Private Regulators and the Importance of Legal Doctrine	0
ECL volume 21 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Constitutionalising the end of history? Pitfalls of a non-regression principle for Article 2 TEU	0
Fundamental Rights Limits to EU Multilevel Criminalisation Choices: The Missed Opportunities and Constitutional Legacy of the Kinsa Case	0
Union Citizenship as a Status of Political Integration	0
The Changing Substance of European Law	0
The Merkel Court: Judicial Populism since the Lisbon Treaty	0
The Janus-Faced Nature of the Executive	0
The Cross-Border Recognition of Changes in the Legal Sex of Transgender Persons: The Landmark Court of Justice ruling in the Mirin case	0
Animal Welfare v Religious Freedom: Reflecting on the ECtHR’s Decision in Executief van de Moslims van België and Others v Belgium	0
ECL volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Citizens’ Actions against Non-liberal-democratic Parties	0
Is Centralised General Data Protection Regulation Enforcement a Constitutional Necessity?	0
The Best Interests of the Child Need Not Necessarily be a Primary Consideration	0
Informal Institutions in Judicial Decision-Making: A Study of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal (2012-2016)	0
Constitution-Making Procedure and Legitimacy Maximisation: How Different Constitution-Making Procedures Satisfy Different Conceptions of Legitimacy	0
Constitutional Theory of Federalism and the European Union	0
The Politicisation of Constitutional Review of Memory Laws	0
ECL volume 20 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
ECL volume 19 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Separating the ‘motor’ and ‘guardian’ functions within the European Commission	0
ECL volume 19 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Public Servants and Signs of Conviction: A Tale of Double Standards	0
The Role of Judicial Craft in Improving Democracy’s Resilience: The Case of Party Bans in Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia	0
Protection of the Rule of Law and ‘Competence Creep’ via the Budget: The Court of Justice on the Legality of the Conditionality Regulation	0
The Debt Brake as a Means of Intertemporally Safeguarding Freedom	0
ECL volume 19 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
ECL volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Anti-Gender Constitutionalism	0
Righting Wrongs at Home: The Potential of Domestic Judicial Remedies in Determining and Allocating Responsibility for Human Rights Violations in European Integrated Border Management	0
EU Mediation in Spain’s Judicial Council Crisis: Refining Dialogic Rule of Law within a Multilevel Constitutional Order	0
ECL volume 21 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
Radical-right Parties in Militant Democracies: How the Alternative for Germany’s Strategic Frontstage Moderation Undermines Militant Measures	0
Introduction to the Special Section ‘Memory Laws and the Rule of Law’	0
ECL volume 19 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds, but Robes Do Not Make Judges	0
Unfulfilled Promises: Reconstructing EU Constitutionalism in times of Crisis and Contestation	0
Towards an Institutionalist Vision of Constituent Power?	0
Investigating Lessons for the EU’s Fundamental Rights Policies	0
Sometimes Even Easy Rule of Law Cases Make Bad Law	0
Social Europe without Social Dialogue: Decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in C-928/19 P European Federation of Public Service Unions	0
Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPPs), the Governance of Historical Memory in the Rule of Law Crisis, and the EU Anti-SLAPP Directive	0
Before Integration through Law: Cappelletti and Calamandrei on Judicial Review as Social Justice, 1944–1957	0
Parchment Barriers: The Constitution as Law	0
The Disruptive Influence of EU Law in Nationality Matters: The Genuine Link Trajectory and Judicial Engineering in Udlændinge- og Integrationsministeriet	0
Constitutionalising the Social Minimum in Greece: The Enduring Legacy of the Euro-crisis on the Social Constitution	0
Rule of Law Backsliding and Memory Politics in Hungary	0
ECL volume 20 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
No Longer Marginal? Finding a Place for Lobbyists and Lobbying in EU Law Research	0
‘Normalising’ the Common Foreign and Security Policy: Human Rights, Political Questions, and the Court of Justice’s Jurisdiction	0
What the European Court of Justice is for – Making Sense of the ECJ’s Procedural and Organisational Law	0
ECL volume 20 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Protecting the Good Name of the Nation as Memory Law	0
EU Trade Policy between Constitutional Openness and Strategic Autonomy	0
Climate Protection Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: The KlimaSeniorinnen Judgment	0