European Parliament Litigation Case Study on Rule of Law Enforcement, 2021 Onwards

A single-case study from 2021 onwards examining the European Parliament's use of litigation against the European Commission regarding rule of law enforcement. The dataset, authored by Andreína Victoria Hernández-Ross and last updated in 2026, includes documentary evidence and interview data. It analyzes the political conditions under which the Parliament chose to sue the Commission for failure to act.

Use Cases

• Analyzing strategic litigation as a political tool based on the study of institutional marginalization and blocked political channels.
• Modeling the conditions for judicial action in supranational governance based on the concurrence of reputational stakes, blocked channels, and legal basis.
• Studying the enforcement of the rule of law conditionality mechanism in the EU based on the documented case of Commission underenforcement.

Strengths

• Includes primary source material such as documentary evidence and interviews with EP policy-makers and officials.
• Focuses on a specific, recent period of institutional conflict from 2021 onwards.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent, limiting suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small at 4.5 MB, suggesting a limited scope of primary data.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and structure require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Andreína Victoria Hernández-Ross via figshare

Collection Method

Likely contains qualitative data from documentary analysis and interviews, as described in the study.

Time Range

Focuses on litigation events from 2021 onwards.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 23:27:02; freshness should be verified.

Geography

European Union institutions.