EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials

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All chapters have been comprehensively updated to reflect the extensive legal developments that have taken place since the publication of the sixth edition, including a new chapter on Brexit and other challenges taking place within the EU. This UK version also includes sections at the end of relevant chapters covering how the principles apply or don't apply to the UK post-Brexit. This version of the textbook is only available in the UK. If you are studying law outside of the UK please see EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials, ISBN 9780198856641.**

All chapters have been carefully structured and designed to enhance student learning at all levels, laying the foundations of the subject while building analysis of more complex areas and cutting edge debates. Each chapter opens with a concise overview of the 'central issues', providing valuable context, before drawing together key analysis in a comprehensive chapter conclusion to provide a clear yet complete picture of the subject.Institutional balance is not however self-executing. It presumes by its very nature a normative and political judgment as to which institutions should be able to partake of legislative and executive power, and what constitutes the appropriate balance between them. These normative underpinnings have altered over time in the EU, and continue to do so. These changes will be charted throughout the subsequent analysis and form the underlying theme of the chapter, which is divided into four temporal periods. The seventh edition has been comprehensively updated to reflect the extensive developments that have taken place since publication of the sixth edition including: Drawing on their wealth of experience both teaching and writing in this area, Paul Craig and Grainne de Burca provide a comprehensive and enhanced account of their classic text. Working closely as an author team for over twenty years, they succeed in bringing together a unique mix of illuminating commentary and well-chosen extracts from a wide range of cases, legislation and academic articles. The initial period runs between the Rome Treaty and the Single European Act 1986. The discussion begins with the initial disposition of institutional power in the Rome Treaty, in which it was primarily divided between the Council and Commission, with the latter holding many of the ‘legal’ trump cards. The underlying theme that the institutional balance shifted, such that Member State influence in the Council and European Council over primary legislation, secondary legislation and the direction of Community policy increased. The analysis includes the ECJ’s role, and how integration through law inter-related with integration through the political process.

Written by leading scholars on European Union law, EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials provides an insightful analysis of the subject. The EEC, now the EU, has passed its half-century. The sixty plus years have witnessed development, change and evolution that will be charted in the chapters of this book. This chapter seeks to lay the groundwork for later discussion by considering two related issues. Important new case law on areas such as: competence; human rights; citizenship; supremacy; direct effect; freedom of establishment; international relations law Respected as the definitive textbook on the subject, this is the stand-alone guide to EU law. The world-renowned authors offer the ideal balance of commentary, key cases, and materials to provide the most authoritative coverage and analysis. Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning supportIncludes well-designed learning features to guide the reader through each topic, including concise 'central issues' and helpful 'conclusions' in each chapter, as well as detailed further reading advice.

Contains a new chapter on current challenges facing the EU, including Brexit and the rule of law crisis. Features carefully chosen extracts from a wide range of sources including case judgments, EU legislation, and academic articles providing easy access to the materials that are key to understanding this dynamic and diverse area of law. Building on its unrivalled reputation as the definitive EU law textbook, the seventh edition provides clear and comprehensive analysis of all aspects of European Union law.The fourth period runs from the advent of the Lisbon Treaty to the present. It was hoped that after a decade of Treaty reform, in which institutional issues dominated the agenda, that the EU could give closer attention to substantive issues. This aspiration was qualified by reality. The EU was beset by a series of crises, which had implications for the powers of the respective EU institutions and the institutional balance between them. The financial crisis, Brexit, the rule of crisis, immigration, and the pandemic all tested the EU institutional machinery and wrought changes thereto. Contains new sections at the end of relevant chapters covering how the principles apply or don't apply to the UK post-Brexit. If you are studying EU law in the UK, please see the UK version of this textbook: EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials UK Version, ISBN 9780198859840. These tensions were readily apparent in the third period, which covers the Constitutional Treaty and the Lisbon Treaty. Treaty reform is a continuation of politics by other means. It is not therefore surprising that institutional issues from the previous decade dominated debates on more comprehensive Treaty reform, including the appropriate distribution of legislative power, coupled with contestation as to the locus of executive power. These were the prominent themes in the debates on Treaty reform. It is clear that while most believed in institutional balance, they differed markedly as to what this should entail. Keywords: data law, data protection law, data governance, data ownership, access to data, non-personal data, data infrastructures, GDPR, Brussels Effect