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Papers

(The TQCC of European Constitutional Law Review is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
BPost and Nordzucker: Searching for the Essence of Ne Bis in Idem in European Union Law	12
The European Convention on Human Rights in Israeli Courts	11
The Debt Brake as a Means of Intertemporally Safeguarding Freedom	8
Editorial	8
ECL volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	8
Proportionality during Times of Crisis: Precautionary Application of Proportionality Analysis in the Judicial Review of Emergency Measures	6
ECL volume 19 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	5
Just Hitting the Nail or Also the Thumb? The Court’s Deference to Member States	5
Protection of Constitutional Identity as a Legitimate Aim for Differential Treatment	5
FBF: On the Justiciability of Soft Law and Broadening the Discretion of EU Agencies	4
True Believers? – Sincerity and Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights	4
ECL volume 20 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	4
ECL volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Sometimes Even Easy Rule of Law Cases Make Bad Law	4
The Lazy Legislature: Incorporating and Horizontalising the Charter of Fundamental Rights through Secondary Union Law	4
The Foundations of EU Administrative Law as a Scholarly Field: Functional Comparison, Normativism and Integration	4
ECL volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Is It Polexit Yet? Comment on Case K 3/21 of 7 October 2021 by the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland	4
Whose Freedom is it Anyway? The Fundamental Rights of Companies in EU Law	3
The Italian Constitutional Court in its Context: A Narrative	3
The Hungarian Constitutional Court and the Central European University Case: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied	3
In Memoriam Russell E.M. Lawson (1943–2022)	3
Controlling the New Rulemakers: A Much-needed Constitutional Framework for Outsourced Regulation	2
Introduction to the Special Section ‘Memory Laws and the Rule of Law’	2
Memory, Past Evils and Constitutional Justice. Lessons from the United States, Germany and South Africa	2

Spain, Judicial Independence, and Judges’ Freedom of Expression: Missing an Opportunity to Leverage the European Constitutional Shift?	2
Climate litigation, separation of powers and federalism à la belge: a commentary of the Belgian climate case	2
ECL volume 19 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
The European Central Bank and the European Macroeconomic Constitution	2
Rule of Law Backsliding and Memory Politics in Hungary	2
Recalibrating the ‘Strict Obligations’ Requirement of the Bosphorus Doctrine of Equivalent Protection: The Strasbourg Court vis-à-vis the EU Principle of Mutual Trust	2
ECL volume 20 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
Legal Methods for the Study of EU Institutional Practice	2
Radical-right Parties in Militant Democracies: How the Alternative for Germany’s Strategic Frontstage Moderation Undermines Militant Measures	2
Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPPs), the Governance of Historical Memory in the Rule of Law Crisis, and the EU Anti-SLAPP Directive	1
ECL volume 19 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
Rethinking Judicial Narratives: The Court of Justice and the Treaty of Rome	1
Thinking EU Militant Democracy beyond the Challenge of Backsliding Member States	1
The Transformation of the Economic and Monetary Union: Solidarity, Stability, and the Limits of Judicial Authority	1
ECL volume 17 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
Resisting Surrender on Grounds of Health: Moving beyond the Systemic Deficiencies Requirement in the Area of the European Arrest Warrant?	1
Is Centralised General Data Protection Regulation Enforcement a Constitutional Necessity?	1
Militant Democracy and the Minority to Majority Effect: on the Importance of Electoral System Design	1
Migrating with Dignity: Conceptualising Human Dignity Through EU Migration Law	1
The Changing Substance of European Law	1
The Politics of Form in European Constitutionalism	1
ECL volume 17 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	1
Balancing Competences? Proportionality as an Instrument to Regulate the Exercise of Competences after the PSPP Judgment of the Bundesverfassungsgericht	1
Stateless Union Citizens in a Nationality Conundrum: EU Law Safeguarding Against Broken Promises	1
Politicising Constitutional Court Appointments in Europe	1
ECL volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
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	1