The eighth edition of EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials provides clear analysis of all aspects of European law in the post Lisbon era. This edition looks in detail at the way in which the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty have worked since the Treaty 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 eighth 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. Brexit is the rationale for the decision to have a separate UK version of the book. 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, primacy, or free movement are relevant in post-Brexit UK. Law students in the UK need to know this, law students in the EU and elsewhere do not.



TABLE OF CONTENTS



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