http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20190803-201101-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/on-the-rule-of-law-turn-on-kirchberg-part-i/ On the Rule of Law Turn on Kirchberg – Part I Koncewicz, Tomasz Tadeusz eng 2019-08-03 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 jurisprudence Rule of Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 What came to be generically known as “the rule of law crisis” in the European Union has led the European Court of Justice to add a new chapter to its own jurisprudential tradition. Since 2017, the Court has been laying the foundations for a jurisprudential paradigm shift in order to defend the integrity of the EU legal system and it can thereby rely on the functions that the EU Treaties confer upon it.