European (EC) Law

This book presents a collection of essays on key topics and new perspectives on the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ).As the AFSJ becomes more and more intertwined with ‘mainstream’ EU law, this edited collection provides a timely analysis of the merger between the two. Showcasing a ..

This groundbreaking new study shows how the process of creating an ever closer European Union affects not only the policy-making, but also the politics and polity of the Member States...

This book critically examines EU law and policy in counter-terrorism from across the three distinct EU pillars, as well as addressing external relations of the EU in counter-terrorism. The book will bring greater clarity and critical analysis to the legal framework currently in force and suggest pos..

This book critically examines EU law and policy in counter-terrorism from across the three distinct EU pillars, as well as addressing external relations of the EU in counter-terrorism. The book will bring greater clarity and critical analysis to the legal framework currently in force and suggest pos..

Taking into account legal, societal, operational and democratic perspectives, this collection connects theoretical and practical perspectives to produce an interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder study of how we might measure and understand the impact, legitimacy and effectiveness of EU counter-terr..

Taking into account legal, societal, operational and democratic perspectives, this collection connects theoretical and practical perspectives to produce an interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder study of how we might measure and understand the impact, legitimacy and effectiveness of EU counter-terr..

The objective of European integration serves as an ideal of the legal order of the European Union and invites reconsideration of law’s conceptual features. This book critically assesses the legal order of the European Union, focusing on the operative aspects of the Union constitution with particular..

This book examines the concept of political legitimacy within the European Union through the principles of legal rationality, focusing in particular on the European Union’s policy towards third country nationals. For Community legal doctrine to be rational it must display the requirements of formal,..

A right to equality and non-discrimination is widely seen as fundamental in democratic legal systems. But failure to identify the human interest that equality aims to uphold reinforces the argument of those who attack it as morally empty or unsubstantiated, and weakens its status as a fundamental hu..

This book explores the main developments and challenges for the right to family life in the context of European integration. Examining the right to family life in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the interplay between family life, citizenship, and free movement, it analyzes the combined impa..

Despite, or perhaps because of, the rejection of the EU Constitutional Treaty eventually leading to the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty, the debates concerning the European Union’s constitutional framework continue. This book builds on the discourse in European Union constitutionalism in order to offe..

_x005F_x000D_ With the developing landscape of a European criminal justice sphere comes an increasing imperative for scholars and practitioners to gain some insight into the diversity that exists in the criminal justice systems of European Union Member States. This book explores the mutual admissibi..