Basic Community cases, 2nd ed.

Basic Community cases, 2nd ed.:
This is the second edition of a highly regarded casebook of important judgments of the European Court of Justice. The editors suggest that their aim was not to attempt a comprehensive digest of European case-law but rather to adopt the three tactics of selection, explanation and concentration. Only leading cases are chosen, that is to say those decisions which contain within themselves far more law than may appear from the brief ruling of the judgment's final operative part.

For each case chosen the editors provide an introduction which outlines who instigated the action and what they wanted, the facts of the case and the legal issues concerned. There then follows extracts of the judgment, and some final comments from the editors bringing out the implications of the judgment.

The cases are divided into the following categories: Constitutional balance; Internal Market affairs; External Market affairs; Community problems: bananas. The last section is included as the editors feel that the large number of cases involving bananas provides examples of almost every conceivable cause of action in the ECJ.

Rudden, Bernard/ Phelan, Diarmuid Rossa
Basic Community cases, 2nd ed.
Oxford University Press, 1997
ISBN: 0-19-876439-1 (Hbk)/ 0-19-8764383 (Pbk)
Price: £45.00(Hbk)/ £14.99 (Pbk)