Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 History of European integration
- 2 The institutional framework
- 3 The making of Community law
- 4 The effect of Community law
- 5 Judicial control within the Community
- 6 Protecting fundamental rights within the Community
- 7 The free movement of goods
- 8 The free movement of persons
- 9 EC competition law
- 10 Selected Community policies
- 11 The EC and the EU as international actors
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 History of European integration
- 2 The institutional framework
- 3 The making of Community law
- 4 The effect of Community law
- 5 Judicial control within the Community
- 6 Protecting fundamental rights within the Community
- 7 The free movement of goods
- 8 The free movement of persons
- 9 EC competition law
- 10 Selected Community policies
- 11 The EC and the EU as international actors
- Index
Summary
This little book owes its existence to a number of factors, most importantly the persistent requests of my students both at the Bologna Center of Johns Hopkins University and at Bocconi University in Milan for a simple and readable, and preferably short, introduction to the law of the European Union. It was, and remains, a particular challenge to teach EU/EC law in institutions with mostly economics and political science students, who are not always wholly enthusiastic about learning the law. That made me realise that there is a lack of available academic resources for this particular purpose. Of course, there are the excellent treatises by Craig and De Burca on EU Law, now already in its fourth edition (2008), and the European Union Law by Chalmers, Hadjiemmanuil, Monti and Tomkins (2006), as well as a number of other first-rate law books – needless to say, not always a light fare even for law students. The students at my home law school at the University of Vienna equally demanded access to learning the law in a most time-efficient manner.
Being brief on EU law is, of course, like squaring the circle, with the additional, hermeneutic complication that it is almost impossible to understand anything fully without first understanding everything, at least a little. This book has been written against all these odds.
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- Essential Questions in EU Law , pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009