nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200921-091136-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200920s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200921-091136-0 doi eng 342 23 Lawful composition – the EFTA Court’s approach Verfassungsblog 2020-09-20 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 10 September 2020, the British Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Eleanor Sharpston, was replaced by the Greek lawyer Athanasios Rantos. Most of the commentators of the incident, which stirred up a great deal of dust, focus on the question whether the termination of Ms. Sharpston’s mandate on 10 September 2020 was lawful. The following considerations, on the other hand, examine the legal situation in the event that her expulsion from the ECJ was after Brexit in line with EU law. A precedent of the EFTA Court in 2016 may be relevant in this context. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 brexit ECJ EFTA Eleanor Sharpston Judicial Selection Process Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/lawful-composition-the-efta-courts-approach/ raw object