How the Chamber System at the CJEU Undermines the Consistency of the Court's Application of EU Law

IF 0.8 Q2 LAW
Joshua C. Fjelstul
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Abstract

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) uses a chamber system to more efficiently decide cases. To what extent, and under what conditions, does the CJEU ’ s chamber system undermine the consistency of the Court ’ s application of EU law? This paper contributes to the literature on the internal organization of collegial courts by presenting a computational formal model that predicts (a) that hearing cases in smaller chambers undermines the consistency of the Court ’ s application of EU law and (b) that the magnitude of this effect is larger when judges ’ preferences are more heterogeneous and smaller when plaintiffs strategically bring cases. Based on these findings, I use machine learning and empirical data on CJEU judgments in infringement cases to estimate the degree to which we should expect the chamber system to undermine the consistency of the CJEU ’ s application of EU law in practice.
欧洲法院分庭制度如何破坏法院适用欧盟法律的一致性
欧洲联盟法院(CJEU)使用分庭制度来更有效地裁决案件。在何种程度上,在何种条件下,欧洲法院的分庭制度破坏了法院适用欧盟法律的一致性?本文通过提出一个计算形式模型,为有关合议庭内部组织的文献做出了贡献,该模型预测(a)在较小的分庭审理案件会破坏法院适用欧盟法律的一致性;(b)当法官的偏好更加异质时,这种影响的幅度会更大;当原告战略性地提起案件时,这种影响会更小。基于这些发现,我使用机器学习和欧洲法院在侵权案件中判决的经验数据来估计我们应该期望分庭制度破坏欧洲法院在实践中适用欧盟法律的一致性的程度。
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