Oxford Handbook of European Union Law

Beset by disagreement and challenges to its legitimacy and effectiveness, the European Union could be said to be at a crisis point. The debates are myriad and complex, the literature vast and conflicting. This Oxford Handbook provides an invaluable guide to understanding the critical debates in the field, pointing the direction for future research.

List of contents

• Part I: Conceptualizing EU Law


• 1: Neil Walker: The Philosophy of European Union Law


• 2: Jan Komarek: Legal Reasoning in EU Law


• 3: Jan Klabbers: Straddling the Fence: The EU and International Law


• Part II: The Architecture of EU Law


• 4: Robert Schutze: EU Competences: Existence and Exercise


• 5: Deirdre Curtin and Tatevik Manucharyan: Legal Acts and Hierarchy of Norms in EU Law


• 6: Christoph Hillion: Accession and Withdrawal in the Law of the European Union


• 7: Michal Bobek: The Court of Justice of the European Union


• 8: Monica Claes: Primacy and the National Reception


• 9: Dorota Leczykiewicz: Direct Effect, Effective Judicial Protection, and State Liability


• 10: Andrew Williams: Human Rights in the EU


• 11: Panos Koutrakos: Common External Policies: Common Commercial Policy, Common Foreign and Security Policy, Common Security and Defence Policy


• Part III: Making and Administering EU Law


• 12: Damian Chalmers: The Democratic Ambiguity of EU Law-Making and its Enemies


• 13: Alexander Turk: Comitology


• 14: Melanie Smith: The Evolution of Infringement and Sanction Procedures: Of Pilots, Diversions, Collisions, and Circling


• 15: Anthony Arnull: Judicial Review in the European Union


• 16: Takis Tridimas: Dialogue with National Courts


• 17: Paul Craig: Accountability and Representation in EU Law


• Part IV: The Economic Constitution and the Citizen


• 18: Eleanor Spaventa: The Free Movement of Workers in the 21st Century


• 19: Niamh Nic Shuibhne: The Developing Legal Dimensions of Union Citizenship


• 20: Kenneth Armstrong: Goods


• 21: Zoe Adams and Simon Deakin: Establishment


• 22: Gareth Davies: The Law on the Free Movement of Services: Powerful, but not always Persuasive


• Part V: Regulation of the Market Place


• 23: Loïc Azoulai: The Complex Weave of Harmonization


• 24: Okeoghene Odudu: Competition and Merger Law and Policy


• 25: Alison Jones: Competition Law Enforcement


• 26: Andrea Biondi and Elisabetta Righini: An Evolutionary Theory of State Aid Control


• 27: Catherine Seville: EU Intellectual Property: Exercises in Harmonization


• Part VI: Economic, Fiscal, and Monetary Union


• 28: Fabian Amtenbrink: The Metamorphosis of European Economic and Monetary Union


• 29: Niamh Moloney: Financial Markets Regulation


• 30: Thomas Horsley: Death, Taxes, and (Targeted) Judicial Dynamism: The Free Movement of Capital in EU Law


• 31: Paul Farmer: Direct Taxation and the Fundamental Freedoms


• Part VII: The Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice


• 32: Christopher Harding: EU Criminal Law under the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice


• 33: Nadine El-Enany: EU Migration and Asylum Law under the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice


• 34: Richard Fentiman: The Harmonization of Civil Jurisdiction


• Part VIII: Beyond the Regulatory State?


• 35: Elise Muir: Pursuing Equality in the EU


• 36: Phil Syrpis: The EU and National Systems of Labour Law


• 37: Mark Dawson and Bruno De Witte: Welfare Policy and Social Inclusion


• 38: Maria Lee: Experts and Publics in EU Environmental Law

About the author

Anthony Arnull, Barber Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Birmingham, Damian Chalmers, Professor of EU Law, London School of Economics and Political Science

Summary

Since its formation, the European Union has expanded beyond all expectations; this seems set to continue as more countries seek accession and the scope of EU law expands, touching more and more aspects of its citizens' lives. The EU has never been stronger and yet it now appears to be reaching a crisis point, beset on all sides by conflict and challenges to its legitimacy. Nationalist sentiment is on the rise and the Eurozone crisis has had a deep and lasting impact.
The European Union has the complexity and depth of a mature legal system, albeit one which is constantly in flux and whose content and foundations are constantly contested. Its law has developed beyond the single market and institutional matters into many other fields including environmental, fiscal, labour, immigration and criminal law. It is studied at undergraduate and postgraduate level throughout the Member States and beyond; an understanding of it is essential to those who study the EU from other disciplinary perspectives as well as to legal practitioners and policy-makers.
The Oxford Handbook of European Union Law comprises eight sections examining how we are to conceptualise EU law; the architecture of EU law; making and administering EU law; the economic constitution and the citizen; regulation of the market place; economic, monetary and fiscal union; the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice; and what lies beyond the regulatory state. Each chapter summarises, analyses and reflects on the state of play in a given area, and suggests how it is likely to develop in the foreseeable future. The resulting collection provides a vivid and provocative tapestry which will be widely used both inside and outside academia by those who are interested in the law underpinning the EU and its policies.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Arnull, Anthony (Barber Professor of Jurisprudence Arnull, Anthony Chalmers Arnull
• Assisted by: Anthony Arnull (Editor), Anthony (Barber Professor of Jurisprudence Arnull (Editor), Damian Chalmers (Editor), Damian (Professor of EU Law Chalmers (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780199672653
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967265-3
• No. of pages: 1072
• Series: Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law