Respected as the definitive textbook on the subject, this is the stand-alone guide to EU law. The world-renowned authors offer the ideal balance of commentary, key cases, and materials to provide the most authoritative coverage and analysis.

The definitive EU law textbook: the most authoritative coverage, including extracts from all key cases and materials, from a world-renowned author team.

Respected as the definitive textbook on the subject, this is the stand-alone guide to EU law. The world-renowned authors offer the ideal balance of commentary, key cases, and materials to provide the most authoritative coverage and analysis.

Key Features

• If you are studying EU law in the UK, please see EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials UK Version, ISBN 9780198915485.
• Written by leading scholars on European Union law and provides an insightful analysis of the subject.
• Succinct and clear commentary sets out the law, illuminates the accompanying materials, and delivers critical and contextual analysis of all the legal and political aspects of EU law and policy.

New to this edition

• The eighth edition has been updated to include expanded discussions of key topics, including:
• A revised chapter on membership, now including issues relating to entry, as well as Member State obligations and exit
• Adjusted chapters on legisation, decision-making, and democracy, allowing fuller treatment of the complex issues concerning governance and democracy within the EU
• Separate and expanded discussions of free movement of capital and economic monetary union
• Inclusion of important new case law on areas such as: competence, preliminary rulings, State aids, human rights, citizenship, competition, direct effect, freedom of establishment, and international relations law

Digital formats and resources
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Autorentext

Paul Craig, QC, FBA, is Emeritus Professor of English Law at St John's College, Oxford. Paul is one of the foremost scholars on European law and administrative law and has published extensively in these areas.

Gráinne de Búrca is the Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law and Director of both the Hauser Global Law School and Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice at New York University. Gráinne is a leading expert on European Union law, European human rights law, and European and transnational governance and has written widely in these areas.

Inhalt

• 1: The development of European integration

• 2: Membership: Entry, Obligations and Exit

• 3: The Tnstitutions

• 4: Competence

• 5: Instruments and the Hierarchy of Norms

• 6: Legislation and Decision-making

• 7: Legislation, Decision-making and Democracy

• 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: Primacy

• 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

• 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: On the Grounds of Sex, Race, Disability, Religion or Belief and Age

• 26: Economic and Monetary Union

• 27: AFSJ: EU Criminal Law

• 28: Competition law: Article 101

• 29: Competition law: Article 102

• 30: Competition law: Mergers

• 31: The State and the Common Market