Law and Governance in an Enlarged European Union

This book''s principal aim is to critically address the institutional and substantive legal issues resulting from European enlargement, chiefly those relating to the legal foundations on which the enlarged Union is being built. The accession of new Member States creates the potential for a stronger and more powerful Europe. Realising this potential, however, will depend on the ability of the EU to develop functional and effective governance structures, both at the European level and at the level of the individual Member States. While the acquis communautaire will ensure that formal laws in the new Member States will be aligned with those of existing members, the question remains as to how effective institutions will be in implementing changes, and what effects the imposed changes will have on the legitimacy of the new legal framework.This book, containing the work of leading scholars in law and social sciences, examines the current and future legal framework for EU governance, and the role that new members will - or will not - play in the creation of that framework, paying particular attention to the specific challenges membership in the EU poses to the acceding states of Central and Eastern Europe. It is a book which will contribute to and influence debates over constitutionalism and legal harmonisation in the EU.>

About the author

George A. Bermann is Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law at Columbia Law School.Katharina Pistor is Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School.

Product details

• Authors: George A Bermann, George Pistor Bermann, Katharina Pistor
• Assisted by: George Bermann (Editor), George A. Bermann (Editor), Bermann George A. (Editor), Francois Buscot (Editor), Katharina Pistor (Editor), Pistor Katharina (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2004
• EAN: 9781841134260
• ISBN: 978-1-84113-426-0
• No. of pages: 536
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 42 mm
• Series: Essays in European Law; Essays in European Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / Constitutional, EU (European Union), International institutions, EU & European institutions, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general