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Understanding the Implications of Article 2 of the Northern Ireland Protocol in the Context of EU Case Law Developments (2022)
Journal Article
Frantziou, E., & Craig, S. (2022). Understanding the Implications of Article 2 of the Northern Ireland Protocol in the Context of EU Case Law Developments. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 73(S2), 65-88. https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v73is2.1059

Conscious of the careful balance stemming from the Rights, Safeguards and Equality of Opportunity provisions of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement 1998, it was clear that human rights guarantees underpinned by EU law would be a pivotal aspect of the P... Read More about Understanding the Implications of Article 2 of the Northern Ireland Protocol in the Context of EU Case Law Developments.

The Horizontal Effect of Human Rights after Brexit: A Matter of Renewed Constitutional Significance (2021)
Journal Article
Frantziou, E. (2021). The Horizontal Effect of Human Rights after Brexit: A Matter of Renewed Constitutional Significance. European Human Rights Law Review, 2021(4), 365-388

This article examines the implications of Brexit for the application of human rights to disputes between private actors (‘horizontal effect’). The presence of EU law within the domestic legal system had created a remedially more favourable environmen... Read More about The Horizontal Effect of Human Rights after Brexit: A Matter of Renewed Constitutional Significance.

The Horizontal Effect of the Charter: Towards an Understanding of Horizontality as a Structural Constitutional Principle? (2020)
Journal Article
Frantziou, E. (2020). The Horizontal Effect of the Charter: Towards an Understanding of Horizontality as a Structural Constitutional Principle?. The Cambridge yearbook of European legal studies, 22, 208-232. https://doi.org/10.1017/cel.2020.7

This article analyses the main debates over the application of the Charter to disputes between private parties and assesses the ways in which the case law over the last ten years has responded to them. The article goes on to propose an alternative sc... Read More about The Horizontal Effect of the Charter: Towards an Understanding of Horizontality as a Structural Constitutional Principle?.

Constitutional Reasoning in the European Union and the Charter of Fundamental Rights: In Search of Public Justification (2019)
Journal Article
Frantziou, E. (2019). Constitutional Reasoning in the European Union and the Charter of Fundamental Rights: In Search of Public Justification. European Public Law, 25(2), 183-203. https://doi.org/10.54648/euro2019013

This article argues that the CJEU’s use of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in situations falling within the scope of EU law needs to be supplemented by clearer constitutional reasoning about the role of fundamental rights in the public order of... Read More about Constitutional Reasoning in the European Union and the Charter of Fundamental Rights: In Search of Public Justification.

Brexit and Article 50 TEU: a constitutionalist reading (2017)
Journal Article
Eeckhout, P., & Frantziou, E. (2017). Brexit and Article 50 TEU: a constitutionalist reading. Common Market Law Review, 54(3), 695-733

This article considers the constitutional requirements and implications of Article 50 TEU for the EU. It argues that it is essential to read Article 50 in light of the features of the Treaty of which it forms part together with its drafting context,... Read More about Brexit and Article 50 TEU: a constitutionalist reading.

The Horizontal Effect of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: Rediscovering the Reasons for Horizontality (2015)
Journal Article
Frantziou, E. (2015). The Horizontal Effect of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: Rediscovering the Reasons for Horizontality. European Law Journal: Review of European Law in Context, 21(5), 657-679. https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12137

This article analyses the horizontal effect of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Horizontal effect has been an integral part of the Union's application of fundamental rights, especially in the field of equality. However, the co... Read More about The Horizontal Effect of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: Rediscovering the Reasons for Horizontality.

Case C-176/12 Association de Médiation Sociale: Some Reflections on the Horizontal Effect of the Charter and the Reach of Fundamental Employment Rights in the European Union (2014)
Journal Article
Frantziou, E. (2014). Case C-176/12 Association de Médiation Sociale: Some Reflections on the Horizontal Effect of the Charter and the Reach of Fundamental Employment Rights in the European Union. European Constitutional Law Review, 10(02), 332-348. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1574019614001205

On 15 January 2014, the Court of Justice (hereafter ‘the Court’) delivered its judgment in Association de Médiation Sociale (hereafter ‘AMS’). AMS brought for the first time before the Court the issue of horizontal applicability in relation to a prov... Read More about Case C-176/12 Association de Médiation Sociale: Some Reflections on the Horizontal Effect of the Charter and the Reach of Fundamental Employment Rights in the European Union.