Christophe Eckes
Biographic Data
| ID | 375496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christophe Eckes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christophe |
| FAMILY NAME | Eckes |
| SIGNATURE | ECKES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2131-0123 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ecologies of justice in the climate crisis
Climate litigation before the European Court of Human Rights, the International Court of Justice, and national courts reveals the gap between States’ proclaimed climate ambitions and their actual emission reductions. It compels governments to justify inaction and engages them in processes of public reason-giving. This contribution argues that such judicial engagement plays a vital democratic role in Europe’s response to the climate crisis. By est…
Dissensus in Europe
Democracies in Europe fail to take adequate climate mitigation measures. In response, not only legal, but also illegal acts of climate protesters are multiplying in Europe. This paper examines the criminalisation of climate protests in France, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. Against the overarching concept of dissensus to which this special issue is dedicated, this contribution reflects on the role of judges who deprive the disobedient from the…
Strategic Climate Litigation before National Courts
The climate emergency is unfolding. Efforts to reduced greenhouse gas emissions globally, including the efforts of the European Union and the Member States, are severely insufficient to hold global warming below the 1.5°C temperature limit. In light of this public institutional failure, civil society actors increasingly resort to strategic climate litigation. However, the EU has very restrictive standing requirements for direct actions against ge…
“It’s the democracy, stupid!” in defence of KlimaSeniorinnen
Small numbers of litigants asking a small number of unelected judges to impose limits on majoritarian decision-making stands at least prima facie in tension with majoritarianism as a central legitimizing principle of democracy in Europe. In KlimaSeniorinnen , the European Court of Human Rights required the Contracting Parties to quantify a fair share national carbon budget. Several aspects of the ruling demonstrate great deference to the national…
Treaty-Making by Afterthought
This article examines the Joint Instrument relating to the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement (AA). EU free trade agreements (FTAs) are increasingly met with political opposition. Generally, the mantra that free trade benefits all is under pressure. To solve the ratification difficulties that EU trade agreements, the EU Commission has started to deploy a new strategy, which we call treaty-making by afterthought. The EU-Mercosur Joint Instrument is…
The EU‐UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement – Exceptional Circumstances or a new Paradigm for EU External Relations
In the final days of 2020, the European Union and the United Kingdom concluded a Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) covering a broad range of policy areas, including cooperation of law enforcement authorities and social security systems. The EU‐UK TCA is unique as concerns the circumstances of its negotiation and adoption, as well as its substance. However, contrary to the argument of the EU institutions, the agreement will have broad implicat…
Captivité et consécration scientifique
Cet article s’intéresse aux phénomènes de captivité de guerre et de consécration scientifique à travers l’exemple du mathématicien Jean Leray (1906-1998) qui fut prisonnier dans l’Oflag XVII A de 1940 à 1945. Une première partie synthétise l’enquête archivistique ayant permis de reconstituer sa trajectoire. Sont ensuite isolées les conditions matérielles de possibilité d’une pratique savante en captivité. La position de Leray dans le champ mathém…
EU global human rights sanctions regime
On 7 December 2020, the EU Foreign Affairs Council adopted an ‘EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime’ (EU HRSR). The EU HRSR is an example of a transnational response to a fundamental security-related challenge. Both its adoption and its specific institutional set-up are a continuation of the move towards stronger supranational practices in the area of sanctions. Further supranationalising the EU’s sanctioning practices, as one of its most deve…
Individual sovereignty' in pandemic times - A contradiction in terms
La réception de la théorie unitaire de Weyl par Meyerson et Bachelard
Eckes Christophe. La réception de la théorie unitaire de Weyl par Meyerson et Bachelard. In: Cahiers Gaston Bachelard, n°16, 2020. La rupture. pp. 71-89
La théorie de l'ordre de poinsot à bourgoin
L'enjeu de cet article est d'appréhender la dynamique de la théorie de l'ordre au XIXe siècle et de mettre au jour une approche spécifique des mathématiques, des sciences, de la philosophie et de l'art ornemental dans laquelle l'ordre joue un rôle prééminent. Nous reviendrons sur la signification singulière que Poinsot assigne à l'ordre dans les sciences mathématiques, avant de décrire la circulation de ses écrits sur l'ordre au XIXe siècle. Poin…
Individuals in a pluralist world
Counterterrorist sanctions against individuals are a prime example of pluralism. Multiple claims of constitutional authority (in resolutions of the UN Security Council, under European Union law, and national law) assume to govern the same legal situation. Choosing between these different authorities has great implications for the legal situation of individuals. This paper analyses the legal position of individuals facing this plurality of claims …
EU Accession to the ECHR
After the European Union's accession to the European Convention on Human Rights the EU will become subject to legally binding judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Rights ( ECtHR ) and participate in statutory bodies of the Council of Europe (Parliamentary Assembly; Committee of Ministers) when they act under the Convention. Convention rights and their interpretation by the ECtHR will be directly enforceable against the EU institution…
Individual sovereignty' in pandemic times - A contradiction in terms
The EU‐UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement – Exceptional Circumstances or a new Paradigm for EU External Relations
In the final days of 2020, the European Union and the United Kingdom concluded a Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) covering a broad range of policy areas, including cooperation of law enforcement authorities and social security systems. The EU‐UK TCA is unique as concerns the circumstances of its negotiation and adoption, as well as its substance. However, contrary to the argument of the EU institutions, the agreement will have broad implicat…
EU global human rights sanctions regime
On 7 December 2020, the EU Foreign Affairs Council adopted an ‘EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime’ (EU HRSR). The EU HRSR is an example of a transnational response to a fundamental security-related challenge. Both its adoption and its specific institutional set-up are a continuation of the move towards stronger supranational practices in the area of sanctions. Further supranationalising the EU’s sanctioning practices, as one of its most deve…
EU Accession to the ECHR
After the European Union's accession to the European Convention on Human Rights the EU will become subject to legally binding judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Rights ( ECtHR ) and participate in statutory bodies of the Council of Europe (Parliamentary Assembly; Committee of Ministers) when they act under the Convention. Convention rights and their interpretation by the ECtHR will be directly enforceable against the EU institution…
Individuals in a pluralist world
Counterterrorist sanctions against individuals are a prime example of pluralism. Multiple claims of constitutional authority (in resolutions of the UN Security Council, under European Union law, and national law) assume to govern the same legal situation. Choosing between these different authorities has great implications for the legal situation of individuals. This paper analyses the legal position of individuals facing this plurality of claims …
EU Accession to the ECHR
After the European Union's accession to the European Convention on Human Rights the EU will become subject to legally binding judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Rights ( ECtHR ) and participate in statutory bodies of the Council of Europe (Parliamentary Assembly; Committee of Ministers) when they act under the Convention. Convention rights and their interpretation by the ECtHR will be directly enforceable against the EU institution…
La théorie de l'ordre de poinsot à bourgoin
L'enjeu de cet article est d'appréhender la dynamique de la théorie de l'ordre au XIXe siècle et de mettre au jour une approche spécifique des mathématiques, des sciences, de la philosophie et de l'art ornemental dans laquelle l'ordre joue un rôle prééminent. Nous reviendrons sur la signification singulière que Poinsot assigne à l'ordre dans les sciences mathématiques, avant de décrire la circulation de ses écrits sur l'ordre au XIXe siècle. Poin…
La réception de la théorie unitaire de Weyl par Meyerson et Bachelard
Eckes Christophe. La réception de la théorie unitaire de Weyl par Meyerson et Bachelard. In: Cahiers Gaston Bachelard, n°16, 2020. La rupture. pp. 71-89
Captivité et consécration scientifique
Cet article s’intéresse aux phénomènes de captivité de guerre et de consécration scientifique à travers l’exemple du mathématicien Jean Leray (1906-1998) qui fut prisonnier dans l’Oflag XVII A de 1940 à 1945. Une première partie synthétise l’enquête archivistique ayant permis de reconstituer sa trajectoire. Sont ensuite isolées les conditions matérielles de possibilité d’une pratique savante en captivité. La position de Leray dans le champ mathém…
EU global human rights sanctions regime
On 7 December 2020, the EU Foreign Affairs Council adopted an ‘EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime’ (EU HRSR). The EU HRSR is an example of a transnational response to a fundamental security-related challenge. Both its adoption and its specific institutional set-up are a continuation of the move towards stronger supranational practices in the area of sanctions. Further supranationalising the EU’s sanctioning practices, as one of its most deve…
Individual sovereignty' in pandemic times - A contradiction in terms
The EU‐UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement – Exceptional Circumstances or a new Paradigm for EU External Relations
In the final days of 2020, the European Union and the United Kingdom concluded a Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) covering a broad range of policy areas, including cooperation of law enforcement authorities and social security systems. The EU‐UK TCA is unique as concerns the circumstances of its negotiation and adoption, as well as its substance. However, contrary to the argument of the EU institutions, the agreement will have broad implicat…
Treaty-Making by Afterthought
This article examines the Joint Instrument relating to the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement (AA). EU free trade agreements (FTAs) are increasingly met with political opposition. Generally, the mantra that free trade benefits all is under pressure. To solve the ratification difficulties that EU trade agreements, the EU Commission has started to deploy a new strategy, which we call treaty-making by afterthought. The EU-Mercosur Joint Instrument is…
Strategic Climate Litigation before National Courts
The climate emergency is unfolding. Efforts to reduced greenhouse gas emissions globally, including the efforts of the European Union and the Member States, are severely insufficient to hold global warming below the 1.5°C temperature limit. In light of this public institutional failure, civil society actors increasingly resort to strategic climate litigation. However, the EU has very restrictive standing requirements for direct actions against ge…
“It’s the democracy, stupid!” in defence of KlimaSeniorinnen
Small numbers of litigants asking a small number of unelected judges to impose limits on majoritarian decision-making stands at least prima facie in tension with majoritarianism as a central legitimizing principle of democracy in Europe. In KlimaSeniorinnen , the European Court of Human Rights required the Contracting Parties to quantify a fair share national carbon budget. Several aspects of the ruling demonstrate great deference to the national…
Dissensus in Europe
Democracies in Europe fail to take adequate climate mitigation measures. In response, not only legal, but also illegal acts of climate protesters are multiplying in Europe. This paper examines the criminalisation of climate protests in France, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. Against the overarching concept of dissensus to which this special issue is dedicated, this contribution reflects on the role of judges who deprive the disobedient from the…
Ecologies of justice in the climate crisis
Climate litigation before the European Court of Human Rights, the International Court of Justice, and national courts reveals the gap between States’ proclaimed climate ambitions and their actual emission reductions. It compels governments to justify inaction and engages them in processes of public reason-giving. This contribution argues that such judicial engagement plays a vital democratic role in Europe’s response to the climate crisis. By est…
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · European union (8 works) · International trade (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Environmental law and policy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)