The Europeanisation of law.The legal effects of European integration

Book abstract:

This is a collection of interrelated essays by many past and present members of the European University Institute (EUI) Law Department. They address such issues as the effects of integration upon certain national laws, the elaboration of EU law to provide a new framework for or replacement for national laws, the piece-meal development of specific legal strands of EU law and their intertwining with national or international laws, and the indirect and sometimes unintended consequences of European integration with regard to national, EU or international law.

The book marks and illustrates the significant contribution of the European University Institute Law Department to contemporary legal scholarship. It is intended to indicate the kind of legal research which has been done and is being done today at EUI. It also aims to make more widely known the themes, approaches, and methods pioneered in the EUI Law Department, including its European and international focus and its comparative approach and its generally contextual method.

After an introduction by the editor, Francis Snyder, the book is split into four parts with sixteen further contributions. The parts are: Part I. Juridification of politics; Part II. Changes in the structure of governance; Part III. Partial convergence of national legal systems; Part IV. Unintended consequences.

Francis Snyder is Professor of European Community Law at the European University Institute, Florence; Professor of Law at the College of Europe, Bruges; and Honorary Visiting Professor of Law at University College London. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the European Law Journal.