SepaRope – Separation of Powers for 21st Century Europe
Short description
SepaRope is the first empirically-grounded and comparative project rethinking the theory and practices of Separation of powers in present-day European Union. Separation of powers, the classic model of decision-making, entrusts different state functions to different branches (legislative, executive, judiciary) and serves the double purpose of ensuring collective will-formation and control of those in power. The polyarchic and multilevel nature of the EU is not easily reconciled with the separation-of-powers-model, either at EU or national level. SepaRope demonstrates in combined horizontal and vertical inquiries how recent economic and political developments affect the EU’s institutional framework and the anchoring of EU decision-making in national legitimacy.
Publications
C Eckes, P Leino-Sandberg and A W Ghavanini (eds), The Dynamics of Power in the European Union. Oxford: Hart 2024, ISBN: 9781509971596
A Ronkainen, A W Ghavanini, and P Leino-Sandberg, “The House Always Wins – a systematic analysis of CJEU case law relating to the Economic and Monetary Union (2010-2020)” 9 European Papers – A Journal on Law and Integration 2024 (accepted/in press)
A Östlund, “A Review Review: Mapping Judicial Scrutiny in the Fields of Migration, Trade and the EMU” 30 European Public Law 2024, pp 133–156
A Wallerman Ghavanini, “The CJEU's Give-and-Give Relationship with Executive Actors in Times of Crisis”, 2 European Law Open 2023, pp 284–301
M Westlund, "The Road Less Travelled in EU Asylum Law: The CJEU’s Restrictive Way of Reasoning and How a Different Approach Could Strengthen Human Rights”, 6 Nordic Journal of European Law 2023, 34–50
Team Gothenburg
Anna Wallerman Ghavanini, Associate Professor of EU Law, Project Leader
Allison Östlund, Ph.D. and Lecturer
Martin Westlund, Doctoral Student in EU Law
Hannes Lenk, Assistant Professor of Law