The idea of the future is a vastly subjective exercise and the search for predictions of the future is a highly composite exercise here in EU law. The distinctiveness of EU law from a methodological perspective as a relatively recent subject with a highly dominant court is worth of significant attention. However, the limitations of a court-centric subject have been increasingly manifesting themselves. An innatetendency towards inte...

The paper explores the relationship between judicial dialogue, mutual trust and independence within the EU legal order. That relationship is governed by mutually-reinforcing dynamics, as there can only be an effective judicial dialogue between the European Court of Justice (the ‘ECJ’) and national courts, as well as between courts of different Member States, where those courts trust each other, and in order for those courts to trus...

Digital technologies have undoubtedly changed the outline of the organization of the modern society and indicated an emergence of the new era of its governance. Such manifestations of digitalization as social media, platform economy, big data, AI, fintech, blockchain and internet of things have become an integral and sometimes even unnoticeable part of our life having brought up, on the one hand, new solutions to the long-running p...