Subjects:

EU Law, External LLB Titles

Contents:

Preface

Table of Cases

Table of Legislation

Table of Treaties

PART ONE:

STRUCTURES

1 The European Union in Search of an Identity

2 Institutional Structures: Legislative and Executive

3 Law Making and Democracy in the EU

4 The Division of Powers Between the Community and Member States:

Embryonic Federalism

PART TWO:

THE EUROPEAN COURTS, THE NATIONAL COURTS AND CONSTITUTION

1 The European Courts: Law, Policy and Judicial Activism

2 Preliminary References Under Article 234:

Cooperative Partnership or Proto-Federalism?

3 Supremacy, Sovereignty and Pluralism

4 Direct Effect: Foundation of the Constitutional Order?

5 Remedies in the National Courts: The Effectiveness of EC Law on Trial

PART THREE:

DIRECT ACTIONS: A LACK OF INDIVIDUAL JUSTICE?

1 Controlling the Community Institutions: Judicial Review

2 Controlling the Community Institutions: Actions for Damages

3 Controlling the Member of States

PART Four:

THE DEVELOPING CONSTITUTION

1 The EU and Human Rights

2 In search of Union Citizenship

3 A Constitution for Europe?

Constitutional Law of the European Union offers a clear, new introduction to the constitutional and institutional law of the European Union. It takes a critical, contextual approach to European integration, looking to political theory, philosophy, international relations, as well as to law. In this way, it provides a clearer understanding of the often complex EU processes and is thus a more intelligible and interesting guide to EU law, locating it in its dynamic historical and political context.

The book deals with vital changes which are crucial for the understanding of contemporary Europe and includes references to the Convention on the Future of Europe. Constitutional Law of the European Union offers: Comprehensive textbook coverage of the constitutional and institutional structures of the EU and general principles of EU law A scholarly, critical account, set in an historical context, and informed by other disciplines A coherent narrative treatment, more accessible to students than detailed standard authorities Undergraduate and postgraduate students of European Union Law, postgraduate Diploma students, and non-law students of international relations, political science and busin