EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (7th edition)

Summary:

The seventh edition of this textbook provides an analysis of all aspects of European Union (EU) law in the post-Lisbon era. It looks in detail at the way in which the provisions of the Lisbon Treat have worked since it became operational, especially innovations such as the hierarchy of norms, the different types of competence, and the legally binding Charter of Rights. The coming into effect of the new Treaty was overshadowed by the financial crisis, which has occupied a considerable part of the EU’s time since 2009.

The EU has also had to cope with the refugee crisis, the pandemic crisis, the rule of law crisis and the Brexit crisis. There has nonetheless been considerable legislative activity in other areas, and the EU courts have given important decisions across the spectrum of EU law. The seventh edition has incorporated the changes in all these areas. The book covers all topics relating to the institutional and constitutional dimensions of the EU. In relation to EU substantive law there is detailed treatment of the four freedoms, the single market, competition, equal treatment, citizenship, state aid, and the area of freedom, security and justice.

Table of Contents:

1. The development of European integration
2. EU Membership: tensions and challenges
3. The institutions
4. Competence
5. Instruments and the hierarchy of norms
6. Legislation and decision-making
7. Decision-making and new forms of governance
8. The nature and effect of EU law: direct effect and beyond
9. The application of EU law: remedies in national courts
10. The relationship between EU law and national law: supremacy
11. EU international relations law
12. Human rights in the EU
13. Enforcement action against Member States
14. Preliminary rulings
15. Review of legality: access
16. Review of legality: grounds of review
17. Damages actions and money claims
18. The single market
19. Free movement of goods: duties, charges, and taxes
20. Free movement of goods: quantitative restrictions
21. Free movement of capital and economic and monetary union
22. Free movement of workers
23. Freedom of establishment and to provide services
24. Citizenship of the European Union
25. Equal treatment and non-discrimination
26. AFSJ: EU criminal law
27. Competition law: Article 101
28. Competition law: Article 102
29. Competition law: mergers
30. The state and the common market

Further information:

This publication has a version published in the United Kingdom (UK) only, and another version published outside of the UK. Brexit was the rationalise for this decision, and there is no difference in the chapters between the two versions, insofar as the explication of the EU law is concerned. The difference resides in the fact that in the UK version there is an extra short section at the end of each chapter explaining how, for example, direct effect, supremacy or free movement are relevant in post-Brexit UK.