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Maria Patrin's
Collegiality in the European Commission offers a critically needed examination of collegiality - the core legal principle governing the Commission's internal decision-making process. The novel study combines theory and empirical practice to advance an innovative framework for assessing the Commission's institutional role and power.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: The Collegial Governance of the European Commission
- Part I: The Legal Substance of the Principle of Collegiality
- 2: Origins and Evolution of Collegiality in the Commission
- 3: The Legal Sources of Collegiality Between Legal Rules and Institutional Practices
- 4: The Legal Nature of the Principle of Collegiality: What Kind of Principle?
- 5: Collegiality in the Making: The Actors on Stage and Behind the Scenes
- Part II: The Institutional Practice of the Principle of Collegiality
- 6: Internal Decision Making and Functional Fragmentation
- 7: Legislative Initiative: The Revision of The Posting of Workers Directive
- 8: Executive Rulemaking: The Approval of Glyphosate
- 9: The Commission as the Watchdog of EU Law: Competition and Infringements
- 10: The Commission's Functions in Economic Governance
- Conclusions
- 11: Collegiality: The Commission's Holy Grail?
About the author
Maria Patrin is a lecturer and research fellow at the University of Florence. She holds an LLM and a PhD in law from the European University Institute (EUI) and a postgraduate master's degree from the College of Europe in Bruges. She has been Research Associate at the Academy of European Law and at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the EUI. Her main research interests lie in EU institutional law, EU legal history, and EU integration. Prior to her academic career, Dr Patrin worked for several years in Brussels as a Director in the EU Public Affairs Agency, Grayling.
Summary
Maria Patrin's Collegiality in the European Commission offers a critically needed examination of collegiality - the core legal principle governing the Commission's internal decision-making process. The novel study combines theory and empirical practice to advance an innovative framework for assessing the Commission's institutional role and power.
