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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/cb13eadbe0ff62fe https://verfassungsblog.de/the-crisis-of-critique-in-eu-law/ The “Crisis of Critique” in EU Law Neuvonen, Päivi Johanna eng 2025-05-07 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Critical Legal Studies EU Law EU legislation Europäische Union | Brüssel Straßburg critical thinking Europäische Union | Brüssel Straßburg Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Critique has become one of the latest buzzwords in EU legal studies. Who, after all, would not want to be identified as a critical scholar if the danger is that one’s work might otherwise be labelled as reactionary, unsophisticated, naïve or whatever other signifier could be used to demolish the value of scholarly enterprise? But the down-side of this growing interest in being critical as an EU law scholar is that the idea of critique itself is in danger of becoming inflated.