EU justice and home affairs law

Book abstract:

This book is one of Longman's European Law Series, a series of topic-based books on EC law from leading authorities in their field. The intention of the series is to enable students, lecturers and practitioners to 'mix and match' topics which they find to be of interest.

The subject matter of 'EU Justice and Home Affairs Law' falls largely within the original scope of the third pillar of the European Union on justice and home affairs. The book examines the institutional development of policies in this area, from their inception in the 1960s to the new roles for the political and judicial institutions and the new types of law that apply after the Amsterdam Treaty, which also led to the integration of the Schengen Convention. The incorporation of the convention itself into the first-pillar European Community treaty has had far-reaching legal consequences hence two chapters of the book are specifically devoted to an analysis of the institutions and instruments before the Amsterdam Treaty and after it.

The next six chapters offer a systematic and critical analysis of the development of substantive EU rules on visas, internal and external border controls, immigration law, asylum law, criminal law, and policing and customs. Finally, the important human rights and civil liberties implications of the EU's justice and home affairs law are considered.

The author, Steve Peers, is a Reader in Law at the Humans Right Centre and Director of the Centre for European Commercial Law at the University of Essex.

A second edition of this title was published in 2006 by Oxford University Press.