nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200429-044548-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200428s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200429-044548-0 doi eng 342 23 Scholtes, Julian Author aut On Doctrinal Contortions and Legal Fetishes - A Sceptical Response to Christophe Hillion Scholtes, Julian Verfassungsblog 2020-04-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier There seems to be a belief – especially persistent among some EU legal scholars – that even the largest political problems can be solved through the law. It suggests that any balance of authority and legitimacy between the EU and the Member States is, in fact, a mere technicality of institutional configuration, and a mere doctrinal sleight of hand would suffice to tip the scale of authority one way or another. This belief also seems to be underlying a recent blogpost by Christophe Hillion. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Art. 50 TEU Legal Fetishism Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/on-doctrinal-contortions-and-legal-fetishes/ raw object