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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Judgment That Wasn’t (But Which Nearly Brought Poland to a Standstill)	18
From Militant Democracy to Normal Politics? How European Democracies Respond to Populist Parties	12
The First Episode in the Romanian Rule of Law Saga: Joined Cases C-83/19, C-127/19, C-195/19, C-291/19, C-355/19 and C-397/19, Asociaţia ‘Forumul Judecătorilor din România, and their follow-up	11
Proportionality Means Proportionality	8
External Border Control Techniques in the EU as a Challenge to the Principle of Non-Refoulement	8
The Ultra Vires Ruling: Deconstructing the German Federal Constitutional Court’s PSPP decision of 5 May 2020	8
Infringement Actions 2.0: How to Protect EU Values before the Court of Justice	5
Greece: A Procedural Defence of Democracy against the Golden Dawn	5
Citizens’ Actions against Non-liberal-democratic Parties	5
Decriminalising Assisted Suicide Services: Bundesverfassungsgericht 26 February 2020, 2BvR 2347/15	4
Nature versus Nurture: ‘Sex’ and ‘Gender’ before the Romanian Constitutional Court	4
The Italian Constitutional Court in its Context: A Narrative	4
Mixed Judicial Selection and Constitutional Review: Evidence from Spain	4
The Hypocrisy of Authoritarian Populism in Poland: Between the Facade Rhetoric of Political Constitutionalism and the Actual Abuse of Apex Courts	4
Sometimes Even Easy Rule of Law Cases Make Bad Law	4
Asylum in the EU: One of the Many Faces of Rule of Law Backsliding?	4
Protection of the Rule of Law and ‘Competence Creep’ via the Budget: The Court of Justice on the Legality of the Conditionality Regulation	4
BPost and Nordzucker: Searching for the Essence of Ne Bis in Idem in European Union Law	4
A Homeless Bill of Rights as a New Instrument to Protect the Rights of Homeless Persons	3
Who Safeguards the Guardians? A Subjective Right of Judges to their Independence under Article 6(1) ECHR	3
The Hungarian Constitutional Court and the Central European University Case: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied	3
The Polish Constitutional Tribunal Crisis from the Perspective of the European Convention on Human Rights	3
Thinking EU Militant Democracy beyond the Challenge of Backsliding Member States	3
Human Dignity in Legal Argumentation: A Functional Perspective	2
Freedom and Power of European Constitutional Scholarship	2

Constitutional Adjudication and Constitutional Politics in the United Kingdom: The Miller II Case in Legal and Political Context	2
Legal Methods for the Study of EU Institutional Practice	2
Is It Polexit Yet? Comment on Case K 3/21 of 7 October 2021 by the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland	2
The National and EU Targets for Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Infringe the ECHR: The Judicial Review of General Policy Objectives	2
Deconstructing Hirsi: The Return of Hot Returns	2
Saving Judicial Independence: A Threat to the Preliminary Ruling Mechanism?	2
Whose Freedom is it Anyway? The Fundamental Rights of Companies in EU Law	2
Radical-right Parties in Militant Democracies: How the Alternative for Germany’s Strategic Frontstage Moderation Undermines Militant Measures	2
The Role of Judicial Craft in Improving Democracy’s Resilience: The Case of Party Bans in Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia	2
Extraterritorial Bulk Surveillance after the German BND Act Judgment	2
The European Court of Justice Allows Third Countries to Challenge EU Restrictive Measures	2
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	2
References for Preliminary Rulings Submitted in a priori Constitutional Review. Insights from Romania in Light of Decision No. 137 of 13 March 2019 of the Romanian Constitutional Court	2
FBF: On the Justiciability of Soft Law and Broadening the Discretion of EU Agencies	2
Controlling the Narrative: Hungary’s Post-2010 Strategies of Non-Compliance before the European Court of Human Rights	1
Freedom or Feardom of Expression of Judges? Exploring the ‘Chilling Effect’ on Judicial Speech	1
The Making of an Imagined ‘Community of Law’: Law, Market and Democracy in the Early Constitutional Imaginaries of European Integration	1
Spain, Judicial Independence, and Judges’ Freedom of Expression: Missing an Opportunity to Leverage the European Constitutional Shift?	1
The Political Impact of the Case Law of the Court of Justice of the European Union	1
National Security and Retention of Telecommunications Data in Light of Recent Case Law of the European Courts	1
A New Presumption for the Autonomous Concept of ‘Court or Tribunal’ in Article 267 TFEU	1
Militant Democracy, Populism, Illiberalism: New Challengers and New Challenges	1
The Merkel Court: Judicial Populism since the Lisbon Treaty	1
Preserving the ‘Essence’ of Fundamental Rights under Article 52(1) of the Charter: A Sisyphean Task?	1
Balancing Competences? Proportionality as an Instrument to Regulate the Exercise of Competences after the PSPP Judgment of the Bundesverfassungsgericht	1
Rule of Law Backsliding and Memory Politics in Hungary	1
The Law and Norms of the European Central Bank as Sovereign Lender of Last Resort: Crystallising Endogenous Authority	1
The Grand Gala of PNR Litigations: Case C-817/19, Ligue des droits humains v Conseil des ministers	1
No Longer Marginal? Finding a Place for Lobbyists and Lobbying in EU Law Research	1
Nationality and Equal Political Rights: A Necessary Link?	1
Judicial Independence in European Constitutional Law	1
Political Constitutionalism under a Culture of Legalism: Case Studies from Ireland	1
Migrating with Dignity: Conceptualising Human Dignity Through EU Migration Law	1
The Foundations of EU Administrative Law as a Scholarly Field: Functional Comparison, Normativism and Integration	1
EU Trade Policy between Constitutional Openness and Strategic Autonomy	1
Constitutionalising the end of history? Pitfalls of a non-regression principle for Article 2 TEU	1
Directive Principles, Political Constitutionalism, and Constitutional Culture: the Case of Ireland’s failed Directive Principles of Social Policy	1