The Importance of Being Earnest: Spelling of Names, EU Citizenship and Fundamental Rights
Journal: Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy
Year: 2015

Names are central elements of people’s identities: they distinguish them from other individuals and play an important role in human self-determination. Names and their spelling reach, from time to time, national and European courtrooms. The European Union is no exception in this respect, as the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice proves. Unlike the European Court of Human Rights, the Luxembourg court avoids looking at the right to one’s name through the prism of fundamental rights but opts for