ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gavin Barrett

Gavin Barrett is a professor of law in the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, where he teaches European Union constitutional law and Eurozone law. He is the editor or author of several books mainly in the EU constitutional law field and has published in all of the major English-language EU law journals.
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POSTS BY Gavin Barrett

21 June 2024

Gavin Barrett

Rule of Law Chickens Coming Home to Roost

Ongoing assaults by Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz administration on the rule of law in Hungary have produced manifold reactions, generally of depressingly limited effectiveness. Last week, on 13 June 2024, in Case C-123/22 European Commission v Hungary, the Court ordered a record lump sum payment of €200,000,000 and a penalty payment of €1,000,000 per day of delay until an earlier 2020 Court ruling is complied with. Hungary thus received a stinging reminder that the Court of Justice is not toothless when it comes to the rule of law. Continue reading >>

22 March 2023

Gavin Barrett

Constitutional Identity, Ireland and the EU

Costello v. Government of Ireland and others is one of the most significant recent Irish Supreme Court rulings concerning EU law. The case involved a member of parliament seeking to restrain the Irish government from ratifying the 2014 EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) on grounds of alleged unconstitutionality. Costello’s most long-lasting impact is likely to be its introduction of the concept of constitutional identity into Irish constitutional jurisprudence. Continue reading >>