Synopses & Reviews
This book is part of the Oxford EC Law Library. The aim of this series is to publish important and original studies of the various branches of European Community Law. Each work provides a clear, concise, and original critical exposition of the law in its social, economic, and political context, at a level which will interest the advanced student, the practitioner, the academic, and government and Community officials.
The European Court of Justice is a controversial institution. Its supporters see it as having played a central and positive role in shaping a polity which has given its Member States an unprecedented degree of peace, stability, and prosperity. To its detractors, it has ignored the Treaties from which it derives its powers in order to pursue an agenda of its own about the political shape of Europe. The purpose of this book is to record and analyse the contribution the Court has made to shaping the legal framework within which the European Union operates.
It examines the case law of the Court on the scope of its own powers and important constitutional questions with which it has been confronted: the relationship between Community law and national law, the impact of Community law on national remedies, the development of general principles of law and the place of fundamental rights.
This book also looks at the case law of the Court in certain key areas of substantive law: the free movement of goods, persons and services, competition and equal treatment for men and women. The final section comprises a discussion of some general questions relating to the Court's overall approach. To what extent has it varied with the passage of time? What has been its relationship with other institutions of the Union and the national courts of the Member States? Should we regard the central role the court has undoubtedly played in the Union as legitimate? What is likely to be the effect on the Court of the latest set of amendments to the Union treaties contained in the Treaty of Amsterdam? The European Union and its Court of Justice will be an important source of work for practitioners, scholars and students interested in European Union law.
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Review from previous edition
"The value of Arnull's work lies in its clear approach to the important questions of substantive and constitutional Community law through an examination of the Court's case law in a single volume. ... Arnull touches upon all the current problems relating to the Court's role in the development of Community law and now even European Union law. In this respect, the book will prove to be of interest to practitioners and scholars in the field of European law."--Columbia Journal of European Law
Review from previous edition
"Easy to understand; suitable for undergraduate students, up-to-date and well-developed"--Dr K Bromek-Broc, University of Hull
Review from previous edition
"A solid work in the genre and should be available to any researcher in EU legal and political affairs...rich in references to cases and to secondary material."--CHOICE
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"A solid work in the genre and should be available to any researcher in EU legal and political affairs." --
J.H. Eastby, CHOICESynopsis
The European Court of Justice has played a major role in the development of what is now the European Union, but the way the Court has used its powers have been highly controversial. The new edition of this book examines the contribution of the Court in shaping the legal framework within which the EU operates. It considers the Court's place among the Union's institutions; its organization and working methods; what its powers are; how it has used those powers to resolve important questions of both constitutional and substantive law; and certain general questions relating to its overall approach. Throughout, the implications of the Union's Constitutional Treaty, signed by the Member States in Rome in October 2004 are taken fully into account.
About the Author
Anthony Arnull is Professor of European Law and Director of the Institute of European Law at the University of Birmingham. In 1994 he was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission. Professor Arnull is joint Editor of the European Law Review and sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, the International Advisory Board of the Irish Journal of European Law and the Advisory Board of the Common Market Law Reports. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and of that Board's Community Law Section.
Table of Contents
1. Europe's Judges
2. The Infringement Procedure
3. The Action for Anulment
4. The Preliminary Rulings Procedure
5. Modernising the Union's Judicial Architecture
6. Treaty provisions and National Law
7. The direct effect of Union legislation
8. Direct effect and Primacy: the National Reception
9. European Rights, National Remedies
10. General Principles of Law and Fundamental Rights
11. Free Movement and Citizenship
12. Equal Treatment for Men and Women
13. Methods of Interpretation
14. Precedent
15. Judging Europe's Judges