European Union and Human Rights - Law and Policy

EU commitment to human rights policies has grown following the Lisbon Treaty. Taking stock of those developments, this book describes the framework, actors, policies, and strategies of human rights across the EU and how their impact is felt. Contributed to by scholars from across the EU, this provides an in-depth and holistic view of the issues.

List of contents

• Forward: a union of values


• The European Union and human rights: law and policy - an introduction


• Framework


• 1: Jan Wouters: From an economic community to a union of values: the emergence of the EU's commitment to human rights


• 2: Eva Maria Lassen: Factors enabling and hindering the promotion and protection of human rights by the EU


• 3: Lorena Sosa and Alexandra Timmer: Conceptual underpinnings of the EU's commitment to human rights


• 4: Chiara Altafin, Karin Lukas, Manfred Nowak: The normative framework of the EU's commitment to human rights: the Treaties, the Charter, Member States' constitutional traditions, and international law


• 5: Monika Mayrhofer: The EU's institutional human rights architecture


• Actors


• 6: Jan Wouters: The EU's engagement with its Member States on human rights


• 7: Anna-Luise Chané: The EU's engagement with the United Nations on human rights


• 8: Jakub Jaraczewski, Wladyslaw Józwicki, Zdzislaw Kedzia: The EU's engagement with the Council of Europe and the OSCE on human rights


• 9: Elizabeth Salmon and Magnus Killander: The EU's engagement with non-European regional organizations on human rights


• 10: Pál Dunay: The EU's engagement with the Eastern Partnership on human rights


• 11: T. Jeremy Gunn and Alvaro Lagresa: The human rights encounter between the EU and its Southern Mediterranean partners


• 12: Francisca Costa Reis, Weiyuan Gao, Vineet Hedge: The EU's engagement with foreign powers on human rights: Brazil, China and India


• 13: Jeff Kenner, Katrina Peake, Stuart Wallace: The EU's engagement with civil society on human rights


• 14: Mary E. Footer: The EU's engagement with business on human rights


• Policies


• 15: Beata Huszka and Zsolt Körtvélyesi: EU enlargement policy and human rights


• 16: Nicolas Hachez and Axel Marx: EU trade policy and human rights


• 17: Brecht Lein: Human rights in EU development cooperation


• 18: Carmen Marquez Carrasco: Human rights in the EU's common security and defence policy


• 19: Elina Pirjatanniemi and Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso: EU migration policy and human rights


• 20: Elina Pirjatanniemi and Mikaela Heikkilä: EU security and counterterrorism policies and human rights


• 21: Cristina Churruca Muguruza and Felipe Gómez Isa: EU human rights and democratization policy


• 22: Wolfgang Benedek: The EU's engagement with human rights defenders


• Strategies


• 23: Markus Möstl, Maddalena Vivona, Isabella Meier, Klaus Starl: EU practices on measuring human rights


• 24: Manfred Nowak and Karolina Podstawa: The EU's (strategic) use of human rights tools and instruments


• 25: Lisa Ginsborg and Graham Finlay: Towards ever greater coherence? Human rights policies in the evolving EU


• 26: Nicolas Hachez: Conclusion: delivery, coherence and effectiveness - a triple challenge for the EU's commitment to human rights

About the author

Jan Wouters is Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance, and founding Director of the Institute for International Law and of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, an interdisciplinary research centre with the status of both a Jean Monnet and KU Leuven Centre of Excellence, at KU Leuven. He is also President of KU Leuven's Council for International Policy. He is a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po (Paris), Luiss University (Rome) and the College of Europe (Bruges), and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. A member of the Brussels Bar and of Belgium's Royal Academy, he has published widely on international law, EU law and global governance. He was Coordinator of the FRAME project (2013-2017) and is Coordinator of the RECONNECT project (2018-2022). and a Member of the Belgian Royal Academy.

Manfred Nowak is Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights, based in Venice, and Professor for International Human Rights at the University of Vienna. He served as UN Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2004 to 2010 and served as Vice-Chairperson of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency between 2012 and 2017. In October 2016, he was appointed as independent expert leading the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty. He is author of over 600 books and articles in the field of human rights.

Anna-Luise Chané is a Research Fellow at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and at the Institute for International Law (KU Leuven), and Project Manager of the large-scale Horizon 2020 Project RECONNECT ("Reconciling Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and Rule of Law"). Her research focuses on the relationship between multilateral organizations, in particular the United Nations and the EU, on the EU and human rights, and on human dignity in the case law of international courts and tribunals. Anna-Luise studied law at the University of Cologne and the University of Leuven and passed her First and Second Juridical State Examination with distinction. She holds a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School, where she was an ERP Scholar of the German Ministry of Economy and Technology and the German National Academic Foundation.

Dr Nicolas Hachez was the manager of the FRAME project (www.fp7-frame.eu) from 2013 to 2017. Nicolas is currently Associate Fellow at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and was previously Lecturer in EU and international law at KU Leuven (2017-2018), Senior Researcher at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies (2008-2018), and Associate Attorney in the Brussels office of an international law firm (2004-2008). Nicolas' research lies at the intersection between international economic law and international human rights law and is featured in numerous international books and journals.

Summary

EU commitment to human rights policies has grown following the Lisbon Treaty. Taking stock of those developments, this book describes the framework, actors, policies, and strategies of human rights across the EU and how their impact is felt. Contributed to by scholars from across the EU, this provides an in-depth and holistic view of the issues.

Product details

• Authors: Jan (Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam Wouters
• Assisted by: Anna-Luise Chané (Editor), Nicolas Hachez (Editor), Hachez Nicolas (Editor), Manfred Nowak (Editor), Nowak Manfred (Editor), Jan Wouters (Editor), Wouters Jan (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2020
• EAN: 9780198814191
• ISBN: 978-0-19-881419-1
• No. of pages: 704
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Civil Rights, EU (European Union), International institutions, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, EU & European institutions