Reinforcing Rule of Law Oversight in the European Union

Part I. Establishing Normative Foundations: 1. Reinforcing EU monitoring of the rule of law: normative arguments, institutional proposals and the procedural limitations Carlos Closa; 2. Beyond legality - before democracy: rule of law caveats in the EU two-level system Gianluigi Palombella; 3. Overseeing the rule of law in the EU: legal mandate and means Christophe Hillion; 4. Protecting democracy inside the EU: on article 7 TEU and the Hungarian turn to authoritarianism Bojan Bugaric; Part II. Proposing New Approaches: 5. Enforcing the basic principles of EU law through systemic infringement actions Kim Lane Scheppele; 6. Mutual trust: the virtue of reciprocity – strengthening the acceptance of the rule of law through peer review Ernst Hirsch Ballin; 7. The rule of law and the role of fundamental rights: seven practical pointers Gabriel N. Toggenburg and Jonas Grimheden; 8. The potential of the EU charter of fundamental rights for the development of the rule of law indicators Martin Scheinin; 9. The EU charter of fundamental rights as the most promising way of enforcing the rule of law against EU member states András Jakab; 10. Protecting the rule of law (and democracy!) in the European Union: the idea of a Copenhagen Commission Jan-Werner Müller; 11. From Copenhagen to Venice Kaarlo Tuori; Part III. Identifying Deeper Problems: 12. EU democratic oversight and domestic deviation from the rule of law: sociological reflections Paul Blokker; 13. Why improve EU oversight of rule of law? The two-headed problem of defending liberal democracy and fighting corruption Milada Anna Vachudova; 14. The missing EU rule of law Dimitry Kochenov; Epilogue: living in a glass house: Europe, demoracy and the rule of law J. H. H. Weiler.