EVOLUTION OF THE SCHOLARSHIP ON THE TELEOLOGICAL METHOD OF LEGAL INTERPRETATION BY THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU: SOME OF THE MOST PROMINENT VOICES REVIEWED2
Keywords:
Methods of legal reasoning, CJEU/ECJ, teleological interpretation, normative significance of the method, combined application of legal interpretative methodsAbstract
This paper reviews in a chronological order two seminal works of the distinguished authors from a considerably rich scholarship dedicated to the teleological method of legal interpretation of the CJEU. The purpose is to highlight how the research on this subject evolved over time. Writing extra-judicially, the authors of the reviewed papers are Advocate General Nial Fennelly as well as the Vice-President of the Court of Justice of the European Union Koen Lenaerts and the Legal Secretary at the Cabinet of the Vice-President José A. Gutiérrez-Fons, which once read together takes the shape of a thought-provoking dialogue and gives a profound insightful insight from inside the Luxembourg Court about the place of teleological interpretative method in 90s and almost a decade later.