The Use of Extra-Legal Arguments in the Judicial Interpretation of European Contract Law: A Case Study on Aziz v Catalunyacaixa (CJEU, 14 March 2013, Case C-415/11)

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Publication date 2015
Journal Law and Forensic Science
Event 5th Annual International Conference on Comparative Law: “Contract Law and Other Normative Systems”, Warszawa, Poland
Volume | Issue number 10
Pages (from-to) 7-26
Organisations
  • Faculty of Law (FdR) - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
Abstract
The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) is well known for its preference for extra-legal legal arguments over intra-legal ones. Indeed, in the CJEU’s interpretive practice, as a rule, linguistic arguments give way to systemic and teleological ones, and the Court’s prevalent approach favours policy arguments (i.e. extra-legal ones) over linguistic interpretation (i.e. a paradigmatic form of the deployment intra-legal arguments). The object of this study is a single decision of the CJEU, namely its judgment of 14 March 2013 in Case Aziz v Catalunyacaixa (Case C-415/11) in scope of proportion and significance of extra-legal and intra-legal arguments.
Document type Article
Note In special issue: Materials from the 5th Annual International Conference on Comparative Law
Language English
Published at http://lawforensics.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/LFS-vol.-10.pdf
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