MCEL Master's Thesis Series
The MCEL Master's Thesis Series seeks to give excellent Master students the opportunity to publish their final thesis and to make their work accessible to a wide audience.
Outstanding Master theses in the field of European Law may be selected for publication on this page of the website, subject to the conditions for publications.
Master's Thesis Series
Merle Sandhop (2026) - Between Leadership and Legal Obligation: The EU Deforestation Regulation and the Principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities
Sébastien Barbe (2026) - Legal Recognition and Governance of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) From Code Based Communities to Legal Entities
Chiel van Burken (2026) - The Crisis and Force Majeure Regulation: Will the EU’s Latest Attempt at Addressing Migrant Crises Live Up to Expectations?
Lena Herzog (2026) - Article 72 TFEU in the Context of Migration Instrumentalization: Opening the Door to Restrictions of the Right to Asylum?
Wiktoria Kula (2026) - The Right of Residence of Posted Third-Country Nationals in the European Union
Rita Passô Soares Ribeiro (2026) - The Price of Convenience: Rethinking the Classification of Wage-Fixing and No-Poach Agreements as Restrictions by Object under Article 101(1) TFEU
Cristina Pérez Escolar (2026) - Of Prejudice and Protection: Assessing Spanish Judicial Compliance vis-à-vis Key EU Asylum Law Standards in SOGIESC-Based Claims
Carmen Pilz (2026) - Domestic Violence and International Protection in European Asylum Law
Tânia Ribeiro Coelho (2026) - Frontex’s Accountability for Fundamental Rights Violations: Redressing the Action for Damages as a Fundamental Rights Remedy
Nikolay Simeonov (2026) - Frontex before the Court: How to Ensure Judicial Review of Frontex’s Conduct
Martina Vitiello (2026) - Understanding the EU Constitutional Core through the Case Law on the Common Foreign and Security Policy
Majella Votta (2026) - Autonomy in the Age of Transparency: Examining User Rights Through Conceptual Analysis Under the Digital Services Act
Aurora Canova (2025) - Adult Suspect Vulnerability in European Criminal Procedure: (At Least) 5 Reasons Why it is Time for the EU to Take the Stage
Estelle Herbiet (2025) - Dark Patterns and Privacy Rights in the Digital Age: Evaluating the GDPR and DSA's Regulatory Responses to Deceptive Designs
Letizia Comel (2025) - Scoring Systems in the General Data Protection Regulation and Artificial Intelligence Act: A Critical Appraisal
Francisca Németh-Trocado (2025) - Courts as Engines of the ‘More Economic Approach’? Revolutions Realised and Aborted
Jakob Piep (2025) - Restoring the Polish Constitutional Tribunal's Judicial Independence without Breaching the Legal Obligations emanating from the Rule of Law
Mariana Militão Baptista (2024) - The Practice of Temporary Loss of EU Citizenship: Questioning Renunciation Prior to Acquisition of Nationality
Enrico Macciotta (2023) - On the discretion of EU Institutions in science-based policymaking: the case of nuclear energy in the Complementary Climate Delegated Act to accelerate decarbonisation
Yasmina Bajaj (2023) - The absence of EU-wide set maximum and minimum amounts of vitamins and minerals in the EU legislation on food supplements: Is a balance between public health and free movement of goods possible?
Sofia Camorani (2023) - The rise of alternative proteins: legal challenges
Guido Bellenghi (2022) - 116 Ways to Get Rid of Unanimity: Exploring the Potential of the Market Distortion Legal Basis
Mateus Correia de Carvalho (2021) - Mutual Trust amidst the Rule of Law Backsliding Crisis: a Janus-faced principle?
Emma Pessotto (2021) - To What Extent Does the Conclusion of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement Demonstrate That EU-only Conclusion Can be Legally Obligatory in Cases of Facultative Mixity?
Alexander Merkulov (2021) - European Union Competition Law and Environmental Policy: Is there a place for environmental considerations in contemporary European Competition law? If not, what are the possible ways of filling the sustainability gap?
Jasper Nebel (2021) - Constitutional Pluralism in the aftermath of the PSPP judgment: Reflections on the enhancement of judicial dialogue in the EU.
Thomas Mileville (2020) - From economic crisis to existential crisis and back: How has the role of the European Stability Mechanism in the reformed EMU been shaped through economic challenges?
Julie Dorval (2020). The Principle of Mutual Trust Between Member States in the Context of the Rule of Law Crisis.
Eva Bukaiova (2020). Horizontal application of the Charter after Bauer - Is wider recognition by the Court of Justice of the EU possible?
Florian Ockenfuss (2019). EASO’s Role in Supporting Member States. Hotspots as Incubators of an Integrated European Asylum Policy.
Monique Frederikke Lundh (2019). The forgotten EU dimension in the Urgenda Case and the applicability of the Charter.
Phoebe Cox (2019). The Contribution of the Fundamental Rights Agency to Fundamental Rights Protection in the European Union.
Felix Peerboom (2019). The safe third country principle and the EU/Turkey deal. To what extent is the current application of the safe third country concept under EU law in compliance with international human rights law?
Sarantis Niotis (2018). The Birth of the EMF - Integrating the ESM into the EU Legal Order: 'Constitutional' Challenges.
Thomas Devine (2018). The End of the European 'Delaware': UK Limiteds in the EU after Brexit.
Nikolaos Papadopoulos (2018). Austerity-based Labour Law Reforms in Greece vs Fundamental Rights during the European Debt Crisis: An evaluation through the lens of supranational and national bodies' jurisprudence.
Priscilla Tollini (2018). The Era of Big Data: The Interplay Between Competition Law and Data Protection.
Juncal Montero Regules (2018). Disinformation and Freedom of Expression - A Study on the Regulation of 'Fake News' in the European Union.
Florence Wautelet (2018). Intersectionality theories and headscarf cases before the ECtHR and the CJEU.
Britt Beliën; Ellil Zachari; Valerie Govers (2018). State Aid and Public Procurement - The Evolution of State Aid to Banks: A Post Crisis Review.
Matthias Hasler (2018). The Legal Classification of ESM – MoUs in the Ledra Decision: At Odds with the Union Principle of the Rule of Law?
Katrin Bungart (2018). The European Chemicals Agency and its Compliance with the Meroni Doctrine: Do the powers of the European Chemicals Agency go beyond the scope of what is permissible under the Meroni doctrine (as modified by Case C-270/12)?
Christine Recker (2018). Banking Resolution Under the SRM Regulation and the Single Resolution Board: An assessment of the limits to the delegation of powers to EU agencies - The Single Resolution Board and its compliance with the Meroni doctrine.
Jasmin Hiry (2018). Fitting national social security benefits into European categories: Are long-term care benefits exportable within the framework of Regulation 883/2004?
Eline Vancraybex (2018). Innovation in the EU Merger Control Battlefield: In Search for Best Practices.
Chris Mondschein (2017). The Regulation of Targeted Behavioural Advertising in the European Union
Sarah Wagner (2017). The Future of Transatlantic Data Flows: Privacy Shield or Privacy Sieve? An adequacy assessment by reference to the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Kortese, L (2016). Assessing the Coherence of Mechanisms for the Recognition of Qualifications: Discerning Dimensions to a Multilevel Challenge.
Leonie Kijewski (2015). Protecting Borders, People and Rights at Sea? An Analysis of Frontex’s Approach to Human Rights.
Koen Orbons (2015), EU Accession to the ECHR:Is it still worth pursuing after Opinion 2/13.
Nina Stoffel (2015). Quo Vadis Impact Assessment? An Evaluation of the European Commission’s New Better Regulation Agenda.
Nina Ferreira (2015). The European Parliament’s Practice in the Adoption of International Trade Agreements: The Creation of an Institutional Parallelism to the Unilateral Dimension?
Giulia Giardi (2015). Fighting the European Ecomafia: Organised trafficking in waste and the need for a criminal law response from the EU.
