The Iraq war and EU asylum law: the CJEU’s answers are blowin’ in the wind

Steve PeersNearly twelve years since the conflict began, the Iraq war is still controversial, with many believing that Tony Blair and George W. Bush launched an ‘illegal war’. For these critics, the only satisfying result would be the trial of Bush and Blair on war crimes charges. I think this will happen one day – on the condition that the jury consists of flying pigs. (Perhaps they flew off with the mythical weapons of mass destruction). For now,...

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What remedies do asylum-seekers have in the Dublin system? Details of new case

Steve Peers Here are the questions and background information in a new Dutch reference to the CJEU, the first case concerning the latest version of the EU's asylum responsibility rules (known as the 'Dublin III Regulation'). It's a rough, unofficial translation from the original. Thanks to Flip Schuller, lawyer at Prakken D'Oliveira, for this. Preliminary questions from the court The Hague (Den Bosch) Case number: AWB 14/12282 Brief summary...

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EU copyright law: Is the REDA report a leap forward for the parody exception?

 By Sabine Jacques In mid-January, Julia Reda(Pirate Party MEP) communicated a draft of her reporton the implementation of the Information Society Directive(‘InfoSoc Directive) 2001/29/EC (it’s lengthy, but a summary can be found here). Described as ‘the most progressive official EU document on copyright since the first cat picture was published on the web’, but also as being ‘surprisingly extreme’ and even being ‘inacceptable’, this report...

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Opinion 2/13 on EU accession to the ECHR: looking for the silver lining

Catherine Barnard, Trinity College, CambridgeIntroductionOpinion 2/13 is a judgment for lawyers, not politicians, albeit one with major political ramifications. It engages in a detailed legal analysis of the relevant provisions of the Draft Accession Agreement (DAA), as well as key principles of EU law. This does not always make it an easy read. Others have helpfully explained the Opinion (see the Editorial comments in (2015) 52 Common Market Law...

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