http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20181005-150136-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/its-about-human-rights-stupid/ It’s about Human Rights, Stupid! Polakiewicz, Jörg Brieskova, Lucia eng 2015-03-12 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Prof. Halberstam’s assessment of the Opinion 2/13 is based on the premise that the EU’s constitutional order is, as he put it, a “deep federal-type structure”. This federalist approach to Opinion 2/13 (and the autonomy of EU law) appears to be influenced by US constitutional experience and thinking. It neglects some important features of Europe's multi-layered human rights protection system as well as the EU's own constitutional order.