EU constitutional law: an introduction

EU constitutional law: an introduction

EU constitutional law: an introduction

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Edition Details

  • Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): Allan Rosas
  • Language: English
  • Jurisdiction(s): England
  • Publication Information: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2010
  • Type: Book
  • Other titles: European Union constitutional law
  • Permalink: http://books.lawlegal.eu/eu-constitutional-law-an-introduction/ (Stable identifier)

Short Description

XVII, 260 pages ; 24 cm

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, EU constitutional law: an introduction is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

  • Responsable Person: Allan Rosas and Lorna Armati.
  • Publication Date: 2010
  • Country/State: England
  • Number of Editions: 25 editions
  • First edition Date: 2010
  • Last edition Date: 2012
  • General Notes: Revised table of cases inserted.
  • Languages: English
  • Library of Congress Code: KJE4445
  • Dewey Code: 342.24
  • ISBN: 9781841139173 1841139173
  • OCLC: 316826645

Main Contents

What constitution? A rose by any other name
An elephant that cannot be defined? What the EU is, and is not
Who is the boss? In search of a master of the treaties
Looking past the trees to see the wood: construing a hierarchy of norms
Into the estuaries and up the rivers: Union law in the national legal orders of the member states
A lot more than Brussels bureaucrats: the institutional framework
A suprematist composition? Differentiation and flexibility
What deficit? The EU system of democracy
Civis Europeus Sum: the evolving concept of Union citizenship
Taking rights more seriously? The EU system of fundamental rights
Broadening horizons? The area of freedom, security and justice
The internal market: liberal, social or green?
An elephant trumpeting loud and clear or a gaggle of geese? EU external relations
Covenants of no strength to secure a man at all? Issues of enforcement and control
The elephant in the room? Concluding remarks.

Summary Note

This book explores the idea that the absence of a single constitutional document for the European Union does not imply the absence of a constitution.

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