EU Private International Law

harmonization of laws

This book focuses on harmonization of conflict laws at the European Community level, which has been driven by the introduction of a series of conventions and regulations. It offers critical assessment of these advances across four main areas of concern: civil jurisdiction and judgments; the ...

Companion to the European Union

This book provides information and analysis on the key developments and policies of the EU. The book also includes features such as biographies of key personalities, maps, a detailed guide to further reading, and 35 tables that provide accessible information relating to the EU. This ...

Understanding EU policy making

EU policies and policy-making have taken on an increasing significance as a consequence of the deepened integration process over the last 20 years. The most important EU policies include competition, single market, economic and monetary, agricultural, social, environmental, immigration and common foreign and security policies ...

General principles of community Law

This is the stage whereby the general principles are created as a result of the influence of Member States law, as well as the influence of international instruments, e.g. the European Convention on Human Rights. This stage is clearly related to the use of ...

Democracy in Europe

the EU and national polities

Seeks to explore the impact of the EU on national democracies Theoretically innovative, developing new terms to explain democracy across the EU.Breaks new ground, arguing that the EU is a regional state Contains detailed case-studies of Britain and France (as 'simple' polities) and Germany ...

From Rome to Nice in a wheelchair

the development of a european disability policy

This inaugural lecture gives an overview of the steps that have been taken by the European Union to develop a policy relating to disability and disabled people since its foundation. Initiatives in the period prior to the adoption of the Amsterdam Treaty were characterised by ...

Historical dictionary of the European Union

Over half a century old and continuing to grow in strength and authority, the European Union consists of 25 member states#with more on the waiting list#and a population of 450 million people. Its influence in foreign and domestic affairs and human rights and ...

El control de ayudas al Estado

Esta obra analiza las ayudas de Estado reguladas por el Tratado de Roma, o Tratado CE, con un enfoque fundamentalmente práctico y de una forma sencilla y clara. Aunque trata la definición y las clases de ayudas, la obra centra su atención en el control ...

Explaining decisions in the European Union

Explaining outcomes of decision-making at the European level has occupied scholars since the late 1950s, yet analysts continue to disagree on the most important factors in the process. Arne Niemann examines the interplay of the supranational, governmental and non- governmental actors involved in EU integration ...

Approaching the EUropean federation?

The European project has within only 52 years achieved a surprising momentum, and the European Union (EU) is now approaching full statehood. The Convention on the Future of Europe has finished its work and handed over a proposal for a constitutional treaty to the Heads ...

Alegato por Europa

Estos últimos treinta años han sido los mejores de España y también de Europa. De ahí la perplejidad ante los tiempos que nos ha tocado vivir. Con el Gobierno de Rodríguez Zapatero hemos pasado en poco tiempo del seguidismo del eje Chirac Schröder a la ...

The shape of the new Europe

Eds. Ralf Rogowski and Charles Turner. The European Union and European identity were until recently the objects of separate branches of scholarship and inquiry. With the entry of Central and Eastern European members into the EU, it has become clear that the future of the ...

Instituciones de Derecho comunitario

ÍNDICE: 1. El proceso de integración europea. 2. La Unión Europea. 3. La Unión Europea y los estados miembros. 4. El sistema competencial de la Unión Europea. 5. La ciudadanía y los derechos fundamentales en la Unión Europea. 6. El sistema institucional de la Unión ...

Diritto dell'Unione e delle Comunità Europee

SOMMARIO: Introduzione: L'Unione europea, le Comunità europee e la loro disciplina giuridica - La normativa internazionale convenzionale relativa all'Unione europea e alle Comunità europee - Le norme relative alla struttura istituzionale dell'Unione europea e delle Comunità europee - Le norme emanate dalle istituzioni comunitarie - I ...

The general principles of the EC Law

The European Court of Justice has profoundly influenced the development of the legal order of the European Community through the elaboration of unwritten general principles of law. The general principles derive from the fundamental values underlying the national legal systems. This fully revised and updated ...

Procedural Law of the European Union

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part One - The Judicial Organization Of The European Union. Part Two - Enforcement of Community Law. Part Three - Protection against Acts of the Institutions. Part Four - Special Forms of Procedure. Part Five - Procedure before the Court of Justice and the Court of First ...

EU administrative governance

This unique contribution to the contemporary understanding of structures underlying European government and the exercise of governance will be of great interest to scholars in the fields of administrative law, EU law and administrative sciences.

The EC merger control regulation

a critical analysis of DG COMP practice and community courts´jurisprudence

Merger control constitutes a well-established pillar of EU competition law. However, the drafters of the Community competition merger legislation, in view of the need to attain the imperative goal of market integration, put more emphasis on the clarification of the substantive rules applied by the ...

The concept of legislation in European Community Law

a comparative perspective

A notable trend in recent scholarship on the nature of the European Union and its democratic legitimacy focuses on the concept of `legislation and its employment within the European Community s legal system. In this remarkable work of synthesis, Alexander T rk exposes and elucidates ...

European Union Law

Horspool and Humphrey's European Union Law provides an overview of both the European institutions and main areas of substantive law in a concise volume. The authors convey clearly to the reader the key facts and principles of European Union law, making it an ideal ...