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The ECJ recognises the right of same-sex spouses to move freely between EU Member States: the Coman ruling
(Sweet & Maxwell, 2019)
In its recent Coman ruling, the European Court of Justice held that the term “spouse” includes the same-sex spouse of a Union citizen, for the purpose of the grant of family reunification rights in free movement cases. ...
Introductory note to Relu Adrian Coman and others v. Inspectoratul General Pentru Imigrari and Ministerul Afacerilor Interne (C.J.E.U.)
(American Society of International LawCambridge University Press, 2019)
On June 5, 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU or Court) delivered its judgment in the case of Coman. In this important ruling, the Court made it clear that under EU law, the same-sex spouse of an EU ...
EU law and the right of rainbow families to move freely between EU Member States
(Routledge, 2020)
EU citizens and – through them – certain of their family members, derive from EU law the right to move between EU Member States and reside in the Member State of their choice. When rainbow families (i.e. families comprised ...
Cross-border recognition of parenthood in the EU: Comments on the Commission Proposal of 7 December
(Springer, 2023)
This article aims to analyse the Commission’s proposal for a Regulation on the cross- border recognition of parenthood. After presenting the problem of non-recognition of parenthood and analysing the main provisions of the ...
The ECJ recognises the right of rainbow families to move freely between EU Member States: The V.M.A. ruling
(Sweet and Maxwell, 2022)
Three years after its landmark ruling in the case of Coman, concerning the cross-border legal recognition of same-sex marriages for the purposes of EU free movement law, the Court of Justice delivered its ruling in the VMA ...
EU free movement law and the children of rainbow families: children of a lesser God?
(Oxford University Press, 2019)
EU citizens and—through them—certain of their family members, derive from EU law the right to move between EU Member States and reside in the Member State of their choice. This right is enjoyed by all Union citizens ...
Positive state obligations under European law: a tool for achieving substantive equality for sexual minorities in Europe
(Eleven International Publishing, 2020)
This article seeks to examine the development of positive obligations under European law in the specific context of the rights of sexual minorities. It is clear that the law should respect and protect all sexualities and ...
Rainbow families and EU free movement law
(Intersentia, 2019)
This chapter examines the position of the children of rainbow families (i.e. families comprising a same-sex couple and their children) in cases where such families move between European Union (EU) Member States and include ...
The EU top court rules that married same-sex couples can move freely between EU Member States as “spouses”: case C673/16, Relu Adrian Coman, Robert Clabourn Hamilton, Asociaţia Accept v Inspectoratul General pentru Imigrări, Ministerul Afacerilor Interne
(Springer, 2019)
In the Coman case, the European Court of Justice was asked whether the term “spouse”—for the purposes of EU law—includes the same-sex spouse of an EU citizen who has moved between EU Member States. The ECJ answered this ...