Denys DE BÉCHILLON - Conflicts of Verdicts Between Judges

Pouvoirs n°96 - Les cours européennes. Luxembourg et Strasbourg - janvier 2001 - p.107-122

A widely-shared idea claims that European Courts are not the judges of French law. A critical examination indicates that, from a strictly legal point of view, this is not so, and that a stiff competition opposes, at least potentially, the various classes of French and European judges on this point. In addition, French law does not seem to offer the necessary resources to solve such conflicts of verdicts. For this reason and also in view of the political, theoretical and symbolic stakes involved in these conflicts, the author argues against letting the judges themselves find a solution, and therefore in favor of a repolitisation of the debate concerning this issue. Résumé

Référence électonique : Denys DE BÉCHILLON, "Conflicts of Verdicts Between Judges", Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°96, 2001, . Consulté le 01-06-2012. URL : http://www.revue-pouvoirs.fr/Conflicts-of-Verdicts-Between.html