TY - JOUR N2 - This article attempts to discover the key elements of the democratic principle, as described by the judges sitting in Luxembourg and Strasbourg, whose case law reveals the underlying idea of democracy at the supranational level. Until recently the debate on democracy was limited to the national level. But things are changing, and this article shows the gradual emergence of a process led by supranational courts, in which the application of the democratic principle finds multiple grades and variations. In this way the supranational/international courts have opened a new chapter in the process of constitutionalization of international law. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/106633/PDF-MASTER/06_Ninatti.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/106633 PY - No XXXV DO - 10.7420/pyil2015f KW - CJEU KW - democracy KW - European Union KW - Court of Justice of the European Union KW - European Convention on Human Rights KW - European Court of Human Rights A1 - Ninatti, Stefania A1 - Arcari, Maurizio PB - Institute of Law Studies PAS PB - Committee on Legal Sciences PAS DA - 2016.01.01 T1 - Patterns of Democracy in the Case Law of the EU Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/106633 T2 - Polish Yearbook of International Law ER -