ABSTRACT
The phrase ‘global reach’ has long had connotations of ‘world reach, success or influence’, in a commercial context.1 Understandings of the reach of law globally traditionally have had a high Anglo-American rather than European content and relate predominantly to the extra-territoriality of US law.2 Nevertheless, from areas as diverse as the internal market,3 EU refugee law,4 data protection,5 EU environmental law, EU banking and financial services and taxation law,6 to EU competition law,7 it is now perceived as a commonplace occurrence of EU law that it has global reach in whatever form. In legal accounts, the global reach of EU law is usually considered as a phenomenon relative to its subject areas, perhaps less so as to its causation or its constitutional significance.8
