From Single Market to Economic Union

Niamh Nic Shuibhne is Professor of European Union Law at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests span various aspects of EU Law, and she is working primarily at present on the principles that underpin the application and development of EU free movement law. She has published widely on the free movement of persons and the legal regulation of EU citizenship. She is joint editor of the European Law Review.Laurence Gormley was appointed to the Chair of European Law in the Law Faculty at the University of Groningen in September 1990. He also holds a Jean Monnet Chair awarded to the Faculty in 1995 and leads the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Groningen, recognised by the European Commission in 1999. Professor Gormley's principal publications are in the field of European Union Law, with the main emphasis being in the areas of the free movement of goods; customs law; public procurement; taxation, and the internal market, although he has also published a number of articles on the judicial architecture of the EU and judicial review.

• Preface ; Introduction ; PART I: ECONOMIC AND MONETARY LAW AND POLICY ; 1. Denationalizing Monetary Policy: Reflections on 60 Years of European Monetary Integration ; 2. Does Economic Union Require a Fiscal Union? ; 3. Financial Supervision and Agency Power: Reflections on ESMA ; PART II: THE INTERNAL MARKET: EVOLUTION AND REGULATION ; 4. Some Problems of the Customs Union and the Internal Market ; 5. Betting, Monopolies, and the Protection of Public Order ; 6. Freedom of Commercial Expression and Public Health Protection: The Principle of Proportionality as a Tool to Strike the Balance ; 7. A Private Right Conferred Directly by EU Trade Mark Law: An Analysis of the Concept of 'Distinctiveness' under EU Law ; 8. The Concept of an Obstacle to Intra-EU Capital Movement in EU Law ; 9. Maximum versus Minimum Harmonization: Choosing between Unity and Diversity in the Search for the Soul of the Internal Market ; 10. The Motherhood Penalty: The Contribution of Europe ; 11. State Aid and Self-Government: Regional Taxation and the Shifting Spaces of Constitutional Autonomy ; 12. Member State Nationalities and the Internal Market: Illusions and Reality ; PART III: COMMON POLICIES ; 13. Chasing a Moving Target through a Thick Fog: Questioning the Objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy ; 14. Integrating 'Sustainable Development' in the European Government of Industry: Sea Fisheries and Aquaculture Compared ; PART IV: EXPANDING HORIZONS ; 15. Turkey: A Candidate State Destined to Join the Union? ; 16. Reshaping the Human Rights Landscape of the European Union ; 17. Towards a Draft Common Frame of Reference for Public Law? ; PART V: JUDICIAL PROTECTION AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE ; 18. The Lisbon Treaty, the Court of Justice, and the Rule of Law ; 19. Whose Law is to be Applied under the Rome Regulations? ; Concluding Essay: The Binding of Joseph

The collection will be of great interest to academics and practitioners involved in any and all aspects of the single market specifically, and the European project generally. Individual chapters are likely to become standard reference points for future work and will enrich the existing literature... The collection offers new insights into the process of market integration and continues a rigorous tradition of cutting edge research into the European legal order pioneered and championed by, among others, John Usher.