Landmark Cases in EU Law, Volume 1: Constitutional Cases [Hardcover]

From Van Gend en Loos and Costa v ENEL to Cassis de Dijon and Consten and Grundig,Landmark Cases in EU Lawexplores the most important and well-known EU law cases in two volumes.

These volumes show how the European Court of Justice has played a fundamental role in the construction of the European Union in the past 70 years. Many EU 'landmark' cases have been controversial, yet no-one can deny that they have been essential in defining the Union legal order as we find it today.

Volume 1 explores the 'constitutional' cases that have come to define the legal nature and competences of the Union, its judicial architecture as well as its fundamental rights system. Each of the twenty cases within this volume is placed in its historical and doctrinal context, and each chapter also presents the history of its reception by the Court and academia.

Paul Craigis Emeritus Professor of English Law at St John's College, Oxford, UK.
Robert Sch?tzeis Professor of European Union and Comparative Public Law at Durham University, UK, and LUISS (Rome), Italy.

Introduction,Paul Craig (University of Oxford, UK) and Robert Sch?tze (Durham University, UK)

Part A: The Nature of European Union Law
1.Van Gend en Loos:A Star is Born,Koen Lenaerts andJos? Gutierrez-Fons (Court of Justice of the European Union,Luxembourg)
2.Costaand the Supremacy of Union Law,Bruno de Witte (Maastricht University, the Netherlands)
3.Internationale Handelsgesellschaftand the General Principles of EU Law,Takis Tridimas (University of Luxembourg)
4.Van Duynand the Nature of Directives,Sacha Prechal (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
5.Von Colsonand the Principle of 'Indirect Effect',Sara Drake (Cardiff University, UK)

Part B: EU Competences: Vertical and Horizontal
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