Three years ago, the editors of REALaw decided to extend the reach of legal scholarship on European and comparative administrative law to the blogosphere. Since then, the blog has published over 170 posts and attracted more than 60,000 views.

During the past academic year, the blog published nearly fifty posts on various administrative law topics. Alongside individual contributions, we also featured three series of posts. The first series presented chapters from the edited volume “Legal Effects of EU Soft Law“. The second series covered the so-called “beach concessions saga,” with posts discussing the CJEU’s judgment in the Italian case “Comune di Ginosa” and examining the status of beach concessions in other Member States. Lastly, we provided a platform for authors to present their chapters from the recently published edited volume “Codification of Administrative Law: A Comparative Study on the Sources of Administrative Law.“

Outside the blog series we curated this past academic year, artificial intelligence, EU soft law, and proportionality seem to have been the most captivating topics for our readers. The most read posts on the blog in the past academic year were:

1. Supervision of Artificial Intelligence in the EU and the Protection of Privacy, by J Chamberlain and J Reichel

2. The legal effects of EU soft law: An introduction, by Petra Lea Láncos and Luis Arroyo Jiménez

3. The breakthrough of proportionality review in the Netherlands, by Raymond Schlössels

If you missed the posts when they were first published, be sure to read them now!

The blog also features recordings of the online discussions from the series called “European administrative law dialogues”. Do watch them, if you missed the original streaming.

We are also happy to inform you that the most read articles in the Review of European Administrative Law itself were the following ones:

1. When European Instances apply National Rules transposing Directives: the Direct Effect in an Atypical Situation, by Javier Esteban Ríos

2. Judicial Protection for Natural Persons Sanctioned under the Single Supervisory Mechanism: Stuck in between Jurisdictions?, by R.P.A. Kraaijeveld, M.B.J. van Rijn, L. Wissink

3. Automated Uncertainty: A Research Agenda for Artificial Intelligence in Administrative Decisions, Marco Almada, and

4. State aid assessment for renewable energy support schemes: deconstructing the Guidelines on State aid for Climate, Environmental Protection and Energy, in view of the recent major crises, by Theodoros G. Iliopoulos

You may feel tempted to add them to your summer reading list!

For the upcoming academic year, we prepare a series on board of agencies and on remedies for human rights violations in the European Union. Stay tuned. The next European Dialogue will revisit the question raised by Professor Chiti in his ELJ “Is EU Administrative Law Failing in Some of Its Crucial Tasks?“ (the date to pencil in the diary is 14th October). The following one will be devoted to local government in Europe. Do follow us on Twitter/X or on LinkedIN for the details.

We welcome proposals for online book discussions or series on a specific topic. As ever we are happy for all contributions related to any aspects of European or comparative administrative law. Furthermore, in order to expand the comparative focus of our blog, we particularly encourage submissions concerning administrative law issues in the following:

• Nordic countries;
• Eastern and Central European countries;
• Countries in the accession process to the EU;
• Small jurisdictions on the European territory.

We would like to express our gratitude to all our authors and readers. The REALaw blog will take a break for the summer and will start publishing weekly posts again in September.

Enjoy the summer break!

Pavlina Hubkova and Yseult Marique