Alezini Loxa is a 2025-2026 Emile Noël Fellow at NYU and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in EU law at Lund University, Sweden. She is the managing editor of the Nordic Journal of European Law and a board member of the European Law Moot Court Society. She has published widely in the field of migration law and EU social rights, and she is the author of the monograph Sustainability and EU Migration Law: Tracing the History of a Contemporary Concept (Cambridge University Press 2025). At Lund University, she has been teaching courses on EU Constitutional Law and European Fundamental Rights.Luigi Lonardo is a Lecturer in EU law at University College Cork and adjunct faculty at Sciences Po Paris. His areas of expertise and research are the law and politics of EU foreign policy, as well as EU constitutional law more broadly. He is the author of two monographs, EU Common Foreign and Security Policy after Lisbon: Between Law and Geopolitics (Springer 2022) and Russia's 2022 War against Ukraine and the Foreign Policy Reaction of the EU: Context, Diplomacy, Law (Palgrave 2023).

• 1: Alezini Loxa and Luigi Lonardo: Introduction: Rationale and Criteria for a Normative Assessment of the Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU Part I. A Question of Paradigm? 2: Joxerramon Bengoetxea andLuigi Lonardo: Quality of the Judgments of the Court of Justice: Coherence, Efficiency, and the Context of Explanation 3: Dorota Leczykiewicz: Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU: Challenging the Interpretation Framework Part II. Normative Indeterminacy and Justificatory Premises 4: Emily Hancox: A Normative Case for the Principle of Lex Specialis in EU Law 5: Luke Dimitrios Spieker: Primary Law as Pyramid: The Case for Substantive Hierarchies in EU Primary Law 6: Davor Petri'c: Between Values and Self-Preservation in the Interpretation of EU Law 7: Luigi Lonardo: An Assessment of the Reasoning by Implied Hierarchy in the Case Law of the Court of Justice in Common Foreign and Security Policy Part III. Formal Logic and Consistency 8: Emiliya Bratanova van Harten: The Road Not Taken: Applying the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights to Migration and Asylum Cases 9: Alezini Loxa: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Limits of Analogous Interpretation in the ECJ Case Law 10: Annegret Engel: The CJEU's Centre of Gravity Theory in Legal Basis Litigation: A Flawed Concept 11: Menelaos Markakis: The Legal Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Area of Economic and Monetary Union: A Normative Assessment Part IV. Procedural Fairness and Internal Processes 12: Niamh Nic Shuibhne: How Does the Court of Justice Deal with Its Own Previous Case Law in the Field of Union Citizenship? Assessing and Refining Methods of Communicative Reasoning 13: Alexandros Politis: The Omnipotent Legislature in the Interpretation of Primary Law by the Court of Justice in the Fields of EU Citizenship and Direct Taxation 14: Graham Butler: Deciding Not to Decide: Dismissal, Narrowing, and Relinquishment at the Court of Justice of the European Union 15: Nathan Cambien: The Different Institutional Roles of the General Court and the Court of Justice and their Impact on the CJEU's Reasoning in the Field of EU Competition Law 16: Alezini Loxa: Conclusion: On the Horizon of Possibilities for Normative Assessments

Alezini Loxa is a 2025-2026 Emile Noël Fellow at NYU and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in EU law at Lund University, Sweden. She is the managing editor of the Nordic Journal of European Law and a board member of the European Law Moot Court Society. She has published widely in the field of migration law and EU social rights, and she is the author of the monograph Sustainability and EU Migration Law: Tracing the History of a Contemporary Concept (Cambridge University Press 2025). At Lund University, she has been teaching courses on EU Constitutional Law and European Fundamental Rights.Luigi Lonardo is a Lecturer in EU law at University College Cork and adjunct faculty at Sciences Po Paris. His areas of expertise and research are the law and politics of EU foreign policy, as well as EU constitutional law more broadly. He is the author of two monographs, EU Common Foreign and Security Policy after Lisbon: Between Law and Geopolitics (Springer 2022) and Russia's 2022 War against Ukraine and the Foreign Policy Reaction of the EU: Context, Diplomacy, Law (Palgrave 2023).

• 1: Alezini Loxa and Luigi Lonardo: Introduction: Rationale and Criteria for a Normative Assessment of the Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU Part I. A Question of Paradigm? 2: Joxerramon Bengoetxea andLuigi Lonardo: Quality of the Judgments of the Court of Justice: Coherence, Efficiency, and the Context of Explanation 3: Dorota Leczykiewicz: Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU: Challenging the Interpretation Framework Part II. Normative Indeterminacy and Justificatory Premises 4: Emily Hancox: A Normative Case for the Principle of Lex Specialis in EU Law 5: Luke Dimitrios Spieker: Primary Law as Pyramid: The Case for Substantive Hierarchies in EU Primary Law 6: Davor Petri'c: Between Values and Self-Preservation in the Interpretation of EU Law 7: Luigi Lonardo: An Assessment of the Reasoning by Implied Hierarchy in the Case Law of the Court of Justice in Common Foreign and Security Policy Part III. Formal Logic and Consistency 8: Emiliya Bratanova van Harten: The Road Not Taken: Applying the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights to Migration and Asylum Cases 9: Alezini Loxa: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Limits of Analogous Interpretation in the ECJ Case Law 10: Annegret Engel: The CJEU's Centre of Gravity Theory in Legal Basis Litigation: A Flawed Concept 11: Menelaos Markakis: The Legal Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Area of Economic and Monetary Union: A Normative Assessment Part IV. Procedural Fairness and Internal Processes 12: Niamh Nic Shuibhne: How Does the Court of Justice Deal with Its Own Previous Case Law in the Field of Union Citizenship? Assessing and Refining Methods of Communicative Reasoning 13: Alexandros Politis: The Omnipotent Legislature in the Interpretation of Primary Law by the Court of Justice in the Fields of EU Citizenship and Direct Taxation 14: Graham Butler: Deciding Not to Decide: Dismissal, Narrowing, and Relinquishment at the Court of Justice of the European Union 15: Nathan Cambien: The Different Institutional Roles of the General Court and the Court of Justice and their Impact on the CJEU's Reasoning in the Field of EU Competition Law 16: Alezini Loxa: Conclusion: On the Horizon of Possibilities for Normative Assessments

Alezini Loxa is a 2025-2026 Emile Noël Fellow at NYU and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in EU law at Lund University, Sweden. She is the managing editor of the Nordic Journal of European Law and a board member of the European Law Moot Court Society. She has published widely in the field of migration law and EU social rights, and she is the author of the monograph Sustainability and EU Migration Law: Tracing the History of a Contemporary Concept (Cambridge University Press 2025). At Lund University, she has been teaching courses on EU Constitutional Law and European Fundamental Rights.Luigi Lonardo is a Lecturer in EU law at University College Cork and adjunct faculty at Sciences Po Paris. His areas of expertise and research are the law and politics of EU foreign policy, as well as EU constitutional law more broadly. He is the author of two monographs, EU Common Foreign and Security Policy after Lisbon: Between Law and Geopolitics (Springer 2022) and Russia's 2022 War against Ukraine and the Foreign Policy Reaction of the EU: Context, Diplomacy, Law (Palgrave 2023).

• 1: Alezini Loxa and Luigi Lonardo: Introduction: Rationale and Criteria for a Normative Assessment of the Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU Part I. A Question of Paradigm? 2: Joxerramon Bengoetxea andLuigi Lonardo: Quality of the Judgments of the Court of Justice: Coherence, Efficiency, and the Context of Explanation 3: Dorota Leczykiewicz: Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU: Challenging the Interpretation Framework Part II. Normative Indeterminacy and Justificatory Premises 4: Emily Hancox: A Normative Case for the Principle of Lex Specialis in EU Law 5: Luke Dimitrios Spieker: Primary Law as Pyramid: The Case for Substantive Hierarchies in EU Primary Law 6: Davor Petri'c: Between Values and Self-Preservation in the Interpretation of EU Law 7: Luigi Lonardo: An Assessment of the Reasoning by Implied Hierarchy in the Case Law of the Court of Justice in Common Foreign and Security Policy Part III. Formal Logic and Consistency 8: Emiliya Bratanova van Harten: The Road Not Taken: Applying the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights to Migration and Asylum Cases 9: Alezini Loxa: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Limits of Analogous Interpretation in the ECJ Case Law 10: Annegret Engel: The CJEU's Centre of Gravity Theory in Legal Basis Litigation: A Flawed Concept 11: Menelaos Markakis: The Legal Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Area of Economic and Monetary Union: A Normative Assessment Part IV. Procedural Fairness and Internal Processes 12: Niamh Nic Shuibhne: How Does the Court of Justice Deal with Its Own Previous Case Law in the Field of Union Citizenship? Assessing and Refining Methods of Communicative Reasoning 13: Alexandros Politis: The Omnipotent Legislature in the Interpretation of Primary Law by the Court of Justice in the Fields of EU Citizenship and Direct Taxation 14: Graham Butler: Deciding Not to Decide: Dismissal, Narrowing, and Relinquishment at the Court of Justice of the European Union 15: Nathan Cambien: The Different Institutional Roles of the General Court and the Court of Justice and their Impact on the CJEU's Reasoning in the Field of EU Competition Law 16: Alezini Loxa: Conclusion: On the Horizon of Possibilities for Normative Assessments