A Companion to European Union Law and International Law

The relationship between European Union (EU) law and international law is complex and challenging.  First and foremost, it remains an open question whether the EU can be understood as an international organization or some form of state order. A Companion to European Union Law and International Law will be a critical tool for those seeking to untangle this complexity, presenting an authoritative collection of essays addressing a broad range of important contemporary topics in the field. Featuring contributions from leading international experts in the fields of EU and international law, this indispensable companion reveals both points of contact and critical differences. Seamlessly integrating the fields, these expert essays explore current jurisprudential debates in EU law and international law as they relate to such topics as: trade, the European Court of Justice, human rights, the EMU, the environment, criminal law and many more. Timely and thought–provoking, A Companion to European Union Law and International Law sheds important new light on our current understanding of the complex legal relationship between the EU law and international law and the very nature and function of legal powers.

List of Contributors

Preface

I. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND EU LAW

1. Sui Generis? The EU as an International Organization    
Jan Klabbers

2. The Nature of International Law
Anna Södersten and Dennis Patterson                     

3. The Development of European Integration and EU Constitutional Reform
Michael Dougan

4. The Relationship between EU Law and International Law
Katja S. Ziegler

5. The Effect of EU Law
Anthony Arnull

II. EU POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND DECISION MAKING

6. EU Competences
Paul Craig

7. The Decision–Making Process
Bruno de Witte
8. The EU and Executive Power
Deirdre Curtin

9. New Modes of Governance     
Mark Dawson

10. EU and Democracy
John Erik Fossum
III. THE COURT

11. EU Procedural Law
Andrea Biondi and Ravi S. Mehta

12. The Court of Justice of the European Union as a Self–Made Statesman
Loïc Azoulai and Zane Rasnaèa

13. The Preliminary Rulings Procedure     
Allan Rosas

IV. ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF THE EU

14. The Construction of the Internal Market          
Catherine Barnard

15. Free Movement of Goods
Miguel Poiares Maduro and Pedro Caro de Sousa

16. Freedom of Establishment
Frank S. Benyon

17. Free Movement of Capital
Sideek Mohammed Seyad

18. The European Economic Constitution and Its Transformation through the Financial Crisis
Christian Joerges

19. European Private Law
Hans–Wolfgang Micklitz
20. Consumer Protection
Stephen Weatherill

21. The Economic and Monetary Union
Roland Bieber

22. EU Competition Law in a Global Context         
Giorgio Monti

23. EU State Aids Law
Piet Jan Slot

24. Statecraft, States and the Regulation of Commerce
Ari Afilalo

V. THE EU AND THE EXTERNAL WORLD

25. EU External Relations and the Law
Marise Cremona

26. Common Foreign, Security and Defense Policy
Ramses A. Wessel

27. European Union Law and International Humanitarian Law
Marco Sassòli and Djemila Carron

28. Emergence of EU Maritime Law
Baris Soyer

VI. HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIAL ISSUES, AND THE ENVIRONMENT

29. International Human Rights Law
Martin Scheinin

30. The EU and Human Rights
Sionaidh Douglas–Scott

31. EU And Social Policy
Silvana Sciarra

32. EU Citizenship
Elspeth Guild

33. The International Law of Economic Migration
Joel P. Trachtman

34. EU Immigration and Asylum Law
Steve Peers

35. International Criminal Law
Roger S. Clark
36. EU Criminal Law
Valsamis Mitsilegas

37. EU Environmental Law
Maria Lee

Index

Anna Södersten is a Research Associate at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, and a former researcher at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS) in Stockholm.

Dennis Patterson is Board of Governors Professor of Law and Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Jersey; Chair in Legal Philosophy and Legal Theory, European University Institute, Florence; and Chair in Jurisprudence and International Trade at Swansea University, Wales, U.K. He has published widely in legal theory, commercial and trade law.