http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20181005-150101-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/opinion-213-and-the-elephant-in-the-room-a-response-to-daniel-halberstam-2/ Opinion 2/13 and the ‘elephant in the room’: A response to Daniel Halberstam Douglas-Scott, Sionaidh eng 2015-03-13 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Halberstam is right to highlight the CJEU’s focus on autonomy. But in so doing so we are missing something far more important. Human rights are here the elephant in the room. Accession to a human rights treaty should not be primarily about the autonomy of the EU legal order. It should be primarily about how best to protect human rights.