I'm not a big fan of making grand theories to explain institutional behavior.

I think that it all comes down eventually to human beings. Welcome back to Europa Felix.

I'm Felix Ronkers Aegebeke.

My guest in this episode is Daniel Sarimiento.

He's the editor-in-chief of EU Law Live,

an online platform launched in 2020

that has taken the world of EU law by storm, but he's also a lawyer and a

professor whose academic writing is very much informed by his work as a legal practitioner.

We talk about how the Court of Justice changes its mind, about silent judgments and judicial

minimalism, and about the impact of the Charter of Fundamental Rights

of the European Union.

What ties all these different topics together is a basic insight that I think quietly underpins

all of Daniel's work, namely that law is made of practice, not of theory.

Here is Daniel Sarmiento.

Daniel, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me, Felix.

Many listeners will know you as the chief editor of EU law live,

but for those who do not know it,

would you mind explaining what EU law live is and how it came about?

Sure.

EU law live is the result of my own frustrations because I used to work at the Court of Justice as a refender.

And I remember being very frustrated with a lot of the academic production coming out of the time, either because

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