Judge-made standards of national procedure in the post-Lisbon constitutional framework

The principle of effective judicial protection in EU law imposes ever more stringent and far-reaching positive obligations on national jurisdictions and legislators. This article analyses, in the light of the post-Lisbon EU constitutional settlement, to what extent national civil procedure has been operating under increasingly intensified EU law scrutiny. Taking the Court of Justice's case law as a starting point in this regard, it proposes a way forward when reflecting on the notion of national procedural autonomy in EU law.