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Pringle: Legal Reasoning, Text, Purpose And Teleology, Paul Craig
Pringle: Legal Reasoning, Text, Purpose And Teleology, Paul Craig
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The CJEU's judgment in Pringle saved the European Stability Mechanism from invalidity. The result was unsurprising, given that the contrary conclusion would have precipitated further crisis in the financial markets. The judgment is nonetheless highly interesting and not merely for those concerned with this aspect of EU law. This is because it contains much that is of more general relevance for the very nature of legal reasoning, and the blend of text, purpose and teleology that informs legal discourse. This article addresses two of the central claims made in the case.
The first was that the ESM was in reality …