Revista Jurídica Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

SUPER LEAGUE AGAINST UEFA: THE MATCH FOR THE CONTROL OF EUROPEAN FOOTBALL

2025-02-10T08:11:17+01:00

FIFA and UEFA have been the associations in charge of organizing football competitions in Europe for years. On 18 April 2021, twelve major European clubs announced the creation of a new competition, the European Super League, bypassing the requirement to seek prior authorisation under the FIFA and UEFA Statutes. The sanctioning reaction of these bodies and the defence of some of the founders have given rise to a dispute that has reached the Court of Justice of the EU. The judgment, dated 21 December 2023, declared that UEFA's pre-authorisation rules (as submitted to the CJEU) were contrary to competition law. This judgment is likely to change the way sport relates to competition law, with the basic principles of the so-called «European Model of Sport» at stake. The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, it seeks to present a clear analysis of the Court's reasoning, in contrast to the Advocate General's Opinion in this case. On the other hand, it aims to analyse the context in which this judgment is framed and the impact it may have on the «European Model of Sport», which seems to be a socially desirable element for the EU institutions.

STRAWBERRY FIELDS AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION: CIRCULAR MIGRATION THROUGH THE NARRATIVE OF MOROCCAN WOMEN IN HUELVA

2025-02-10T08:04:51+01:00

This paper focuses on the relationship between international migration flows and the feminization of labor in agriculture, specifically in the strawberry sector in Huelva, Spain. It examines a particular recruitment system at origin, which recruits young, rural, Moroccan women with family responsibilities. The study uses qualitative methods to analyze the assumptions behind this recruitment system and to assess whether the selection criteria encourage women to return to their country of origin. This article contributes to the debate on the «ideal model of orderly migration» by questioning its rationale and effects. It provides valuable information for policymakers and raises public awareness of a largely ignored issue, highlighting the gender implications of labor migration and the need for more informed and equitable migration policies.

DATA PROCESSING FOR CREDIT SCORING AND SECONDARY USE OF DATA. EXAMINATION OF THE PRESUMPTION OF COMPATIBILITY OF ART. 5.1.B GDPR

2025-02-10T07:52:51+01:00

The analysis of the borrower's creditworthiness through credit scoring models is a legal obligation for credit institutions when granting loans. These institutions comply with this requirement by carrying out solvency profiling of their customers, which will entail the processing of personal data subject to the GDPR. Therefore, the correct identification of the purpose of the processing will make it possible to define the possibilities for processing the data and the secondary uses that credit institutions may make of them. The regulatory analysis of the issue leads to defining the purpose of the processing in a broad sense as the assessment of creditworthiness for the prevention of over-indebtedness and the maintenance of the health of the financial market. This will have an impact on subsequent uses which may be considered compatible. This could allow credit institutions to increase the range of possible processing of these data.

THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A NORMATIVE POWER IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD: DREAM OR REALITY?

2025-02-10T08:13:40+01:00

The European Union (EU) is considered a normative power today. It has achieved a prominent position in international trade and has consolidated itself as one of the main markets worldwide, factors that have allowed it to have a global influence in normative terms, making its norms taken as reference models. The global role of the EU has been analyzed based on its power components and its dimensions of influence, being considered a soft, civil or normative power, mainly due to its ability to influence through persuasion and attraction, rather than coercion. However, the influence of the EU as a normative power, in a globalized and increasingly uncertain world, remains a topic of debate and controversy, as some question whether the EU really has the capacity to influence, in an effective way, the global normative framework. Therefore, the purpose of this writing is to shed light on that debate, with the aim of defining and reflecting the degree of normative influence that the EU has at the international level.

INCORPORATING «TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE» INTO POLITICS: SOME REFLECTIONS ON TECHNOCRACY AND TECHNOCRATS

2025-02-10T08:08:05+01:00

Many voices argue for technocracy as the ideal solution to periods of political turmoil. It is at such times that citizens demand the expertise, capability and objectivity endowed, in principle, by technocrats. While it seems difficult to contest the benefits of a technocratic system, a deeper analysis reveals that, at its highest level, technocracy could not only undermine the democratic standards of a country but even obliterate democracy itself.

THE DISTORTED JUDICIALIZATION OF POLITICS: THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT CASE

2025-02-10T08:01:41+01:00

In any State governed by the Rule of Law, public authorities must be subject to limits and controls. The action of unconstitutionality is a way to channel the judicial review of the activity of the legislator, being a tool to which political minorities usually have access. Otherwise, there is also a tendency identified by the doctrine which consists of settling political conflicts through the courts. Here, the problem of abusive and illegitimate use of the control mechanisms will be analyzed, as well as the risks to democratic quality implicit in this dynamic.

«DECIR LA VERDAD»: ¿UNA MISIÓN IMPOSIBLE PARA LA HISTORIOGRAFÍA?

2025-02-19T09:40:48+01:00

Can historians tell what really happened in the past? This is the question that this work seeks to answer. Through a detailed journey through the different moments of thought in the 19th and 20th centuries, the author shows the tempestuous difficulties that this question posed and continues to pose, leading the reader to the real challenge that the response contains: perhaps historiography cannot tell what really happened, but it cannot renounce telling the truth, the only raison d'être that legitimises it, justifies it and gives it meaning.