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Remedying European legal pluralism: the FIAMM and Fedon litigation and the judicial protection of international trade bystanders

Dani, Marco (2010) Remedying European legal pluralism: the FIAMM and Fedon litigation and the judicial protection of international trade bystanders. European Journal of International Law, 21 (2). 303 -340. ISSN 0938-5428

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Identification Number: 10.1093/ejil/chq026

Abstract

In FIAMM and Fedon the European Court of Justice has ruled that Community firms hit by US trade sanctions authorized by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body are not entitled to compensation from EC political institutions. The article discusses the cases in the background of current debates on the attitude of the Court of Justice towards international law and, more broadly, on European legal pluralism. From this standpoint, it provides a critical assessment of the legal issues involved in this litigation - internal status of WTO obligations, scope for manoeuvre of EC political institutions in international trade relations, liability for unlawful and lawful conduct - and offers a comparative analysis of its possible solutions, suggesting that a finding of liability for lawful conduct would have been a preferable outcome in both theoretical and substantive terms.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www.ejil.org/
Additional Information: © 2010 EJIL
Divisions: European Institute
Subjects: J Political Science > JX International law
J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
Date Deposited: 27 Aug 2010 13:19
Last Modified: 08 Oct 2024 22:00
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/29017

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