The Oxford Handbook of EU Law

- A comprehensive reference in the field of European Union law, providing a road map to the current state of research for all those working in the discipline - Gives invaluable insights into key debates and controversies surrounding the scope and effect of EU law - Leading commentators offer a guide to the laws underpinning the EU and its policies Since its formation the European Union has expanded beyond all expectations, and this expansion seems set to continue as more countries seek accession and the scope of EU law expands, touching more and more aspects of its citizens' lives. The EU has never been stronger and yet it now appears to be reaching a crisis point, beset on all sides by conflict and challenges to its legitimacy. Nationalist sentiment is on the rise and the Eurozone crisis has had a deep and lasting impact. EU law, always controversial, continues to perplex, not least because it remains difficult to analyse. What is the EU? An international organization, or a federation? Should its legal concepts be measured against national standards, or another norm? The Oxford Handbook of EU Law illuminates the richness and complexity of the debates surrounding the law and policies of the EU. Comprising eight sections, it examines how we are to conceptualize EU law; the architecture of EU law; making and administering EU law; the economic constitution and the citizen; regulation of the market place; economic, monetary, and fiscal union; the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice; and what lies beyond the regulatory state. Each chapter summarizes, analyses, and reflects on the state of play in a given area, and suggests how it is likely to develop in the foreseeable future. Written by an international team of leading commentators, this Oxford Handbook creates a vivid and provocative tapestry of the key issues shaping the laws of the European Union. Readership: Legal academics and political scientists, advanced students, and policy makers working in the field of EU law and policy

Part I: Conceptualizing EU Law 1: Neil Walker: The Philosophy of European Union Law 2: Jan Komarek: Legal Reasoning in EU Law 3: Jan Klabbers: Straddling the Fence: The EU and International Law Part II: The Architecture of EU Law 4: Robert Schutze: EU Competences: Existence and Exercise 5: Deirdre Curtin and Tatevik Manucharyan: Legal Acts and Hierarchy of Norms in EU Law 6: Christoph Hillion: Accession and Withdrawal in the Law of the European Union 7: Michal Bobek: The Court of Justice of the European Union 8: Monica Claes: Primacy and the National Reception 9: Dorota Leczykiewicz: Direct Effect, Effective Judicial Protection, and State Liability 10: Andrew Williams: Human Rights in the EU 11: Panos Koutrakos: Common External Policies: Common Commercial Policy, Common Foreign and Security Policy, Common Security and Defence Policy Part III: Making and Administering EU Law 12: Damian Chalmers: The Democratic Ambiguity of EU Law-Making and its Enemies 13: Alexander Turk: Comitology 14: Melanie Smith: The Evolution of Infringement and Sanction Procedures: Of Pilots, Diversions, Collisions, and Circling 15: Anthony Arnull: Judicial Review in the European Union 16: Takis Tridimas: Dialogue with National Courts 17: Paul Craig: Accountability and Representation in EU Law Part IV: The Economic Constitution and the Citizen 18: Eleanor Spaventa: The Free Movement of Workers in the 21st Century 19: Niamh Nic Shuibhne: The Developing Legal Dimensions of Union Citizenship 20: Kenneth Armstrong: Goods 21: Zoe Adams and Simon Deakin: Establishment 22: Gareth Davies: The Law on the Free Movement of Services: Powerful, but not always Persuasive Part V: Regulation of the Market Place 23: Loïc Azoulai: The Complex Weave of Harmonization 24: Okeoghene Odudu: Competition and Merger Law and Policy 25: Alison Jones: Competition Law Enforcement 26: Andrea Biondi and Elisabetta Righini: An Evolutionary Theory of State Aid Control 27: Catherine Seville: EU Intellectual Property: Exercises in Harmonization Part VI: Economic, Fiscal, and Monetary Union 28: Fabian Amtenbrink: The Metamorphosis of European Economic and Monetary Union 29: Niamh Moloney: Financial Markets Regulation 30: Thomas Horsley: Death, Taxes, and (Targeted) Judicial Dynamism: The Free Movement of Capital in EU Law 31: Paul Farmer: Direct Taxation and the Fundamental Freedoms Part VII: The Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice 32: Christopher Harding: EU Criminal Law under the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice 33: Nadine El-Enany: EU Migration and Asylum Law under the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice 34: Richard Fentiman: The Harmonization of Civil Jurisdiction Part VIII: Beyond the Regulatory State? 35: Elise Muir: Pursuing Equality in the EU 36: Phil Syrpis: The EU and National Systems of Labour Law 37: Mark Dawson and Bruno De Witte: Welfare Policy and Social Inclusion 38: Maria Lee: Experts and Publics in EU Environmental Law