nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20180730-095958-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 180728s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20180730-095958-0 doi eng 342 23 Scheppele, Kim Lane Author aut Rule of Law Retail and Rule of Law Wholesale: The ECJ’s (Alarming) “Celmer” Decision Scheppele, Kim Lane Verfassungsblog 2018-07-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier A craving for the rule of law can be satisfied in two ways.   You can invoke it legally through a case-by-case checking of its presence in any particular instance (though of course, retail assessment means you’re at the mercy of the court near you) or you can better guarantee a steady and plentiful delivery by contracting wholesale, thus providing a legal constraint on the supplier’s ability to deviate.   This week’s decision of the European Court of Justice in the “Celmer” case (Case C-216/18 PPU, Minister for Justice and Equality v LM) tells us that the rule of law is now available retail in the European Union, but it is not now – and probably can never be – available wholesale.   funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/rule-of-law-retail-and-rule-of-law-wholesale-the-ecjs-alarming-celmer-decision/ raw object