From Single Market to Economic Union. Essays in Memory of John A. Usher

The path from single market to economic union is a continuing, and controversial, story; raising questions about the present and future regulation, structures, and purpose of economic union within the broader objectives of the EU legal and political order. This collection focuses on the evolution and regulation of the EU as an economic union, in tribute to the scholarship of the late Professor John A Usher.

The process of treaty reform within the EU has now reached fruition and attention is being re-focused on substantive aspects of EU law and policy. The essays in the collection consider the EU internal market in its broadest sense: the fundamental free movement provisions remain at the core, but the concept of the transnational market must also accommodate competing interests to which the EU is committed but the implications of which can nonetheless distort, and thus need to be carefully balanced within, the basic free trade framework (for example, intellectual property rights and the protection of innovation, and also the implementation of social policy objectives). The collection also situates the market in its broader politico-economic context. The global economic climate remains precarious and questions about optimal financial and fiscal regulation, and monetary stability, remain critically significant, especially in a transnational context given the degree of inter-dependency generated by the EU integration project.

The essays in the collection offer in-depth reflections on different 'parts' of this evolving transnational economic union, linked together as a whole by cross-cutting thematic concerns about competence and regulation, and about where and how the economic law of the EU fits within the broader integration narrative. Together, these different elements of the proposed collection demonstrate the different facets of EU economic law and its regulation; and this approach, in turn, reflects the extraordinary breadth of John Usher's remarkable contribution to scholarship.

Readership: Academics and advanced students studying EU law, lawyers practising in the area, government and EU officials seeking to understand developments in the field

Table of Contents:

PART I: ECONOMIC AND MONETARY LAW AND POLICY
1: Fabian Amtenbrink: Denationalizing Monetary Policy: Reflections on 60 Years of European Monetary Integration
2: Andrew Scott: Does Economic Union Require a Fiscal Union?
3: Takis Tridimas: Financial Supervision and Agency Power: Reflections on ESMA

PART II: THE INTERNAL MARKET: EVOLUTION AND REGULATION
4: Laurence Gormley: Some Problems of the Customs Union and the Internal Market
5: Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère: Betting, Monopolies, and the Protection of Public Order
6: Amandine Garde: Freedom of Commercial Expression and Public Health Protection: The Principle of Proportionality as a Tool to Strike the Balance
7: Rosa Greaves: A Private Right Conferred Directly by EU Trade Mark Law: An Analysis of the Concept of 'Distinctiveness' under EU Law
8: Thomas Horsley: The Concept of an Obstacle to Intra-EU Capital Movement in EU Law
9: Stephen Weatherill: Maximum versus Minimum Harmonization: Choosing between Unity and Diversity in the Search for the Soul of the Internal Market
10: Noreen Burrows and Muriel Robinson: The Motherhood Penalty: The Contribution of Europe
11: Francesco De Cecco: State Aid and Self-Government: Regional Taxation and the Shifting Spaces of Constitutional Autonomy
12: Dimitry Kochenov: Member State Nationalities and the Internal Market: Illusions and Reality

PART III: COMMON POLICIES
13: Joseph McMahon: Chasing a Moving Target through a Thick Fog: Questioning the Objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy
14: Caitríona A. Carter: Integrating 'Sustainable Development' in the European Government of Industry: Sea Fisheries and Aquaculture Compared

PART IV: EXPANDING HORIZONS
15: Marc Maresceau: Turkey: A Candidate State Destined to Join the Union?
16: Robin CA White: Reshaping the Human Rights Landscape of the European Union
17: Jan Jans: Towards a Draft Common Frame of Reference for Public Law?

PART V: JUDICIAL PROTECTION AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE
18: Francis Jacobs: The Lisbon Treaty, the Court of Justice, and the Rule of Law
19: Richard Plender: Whose Law is to be Applied under the Rome Regulations?
JHH Weiler: Concluding Essay: The Binding of Joseph