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The Relation between the Charter's Fundamental Rights and the Unwritten General Principles of EU Law: Good Administration as the Test Case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2013

Herwig C.H. Hofmann  and
C. Mihaescu
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Abstract

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU – Multiple sources of fundamental rights in the EU legal system – Non-hierarchical, pluralistic understanding of their interrelationship – Case study: the right to good administration – Difficulties in defining the scope of the right to good administration under the Charter and that of the right to good administration as a general principle of EU law – Adoption of a pluralistic understanding of the EU fundamental rights’ sources allows for a clarification and improved understanding of the individual's rights in the EU legal system

Keywords

European UnionCharter of Fundamental RightsEuropean Convention on Human RightsPluralism of fundamental rightsGood administration
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Articles
Information
European Constitutional Law Review , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 73 - 101
Copyright
Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press and the Authors 2013

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