Notes about key judgments of the European Court of Justice

Abstract

This article provides a list of some of the key and most fundamental judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU, presenting and introducing them in a clear and simple manner. The selection favours an institutional and constitutional approach to the jurisprudence of the Court, but some of the most important substantive judgments have also been included. Given limitations of space and length the presentation and comments on the judgments have not delved into the detailed facts of the cases, opting rather for the presentation of the ratio and the legal principles following from the judgments and showing how these have become «leading cases» of Union law, sometimes even gibing way to secondary legislation. The latter evolution and impact of these leading cases is also incorporated into each of them, considering them to be true jurisprudential benchmarks.