New Directions in European Public Law

This collection of essays arises from two symposia held at the University of Cambridge, Centre for European Legal Studies, in the spring and summer of 1997. It presents an analysis of issues arising from the EU public law arena, but falls into two interrelated but distinct parts. The first part deals with issues of liability in public law and the availability of remedies in EC and domestic law, including:

member state liability in damages

the role of Article 215

the Community system of remedies

the domestic liability of public authorities in damages, and

tortious liability in EC law

The second part deals with EU public law more broadly, by examining the phenomenon of cross-fertilization among national legal systems in Europe and between national systems and EU law. The essays in this section include:

the cross-fertilization of concepts in constitutional law

cross-fertilization in EU administrative law

transplantation and cross-fertilization

constitutions and judicial power, and

cross-fertilization in Italian administrative law