How should EU law be taught in the present day, with the European Union’s post Brexit reality, a continental conflict in Ukraine, and a new digital market?The answer is provided by this important new textbook. With a unified analytical voice, it provides a comprehensive overview of European Union law. It expertly explains the EU’s constitutional foundations, institutional framework, and substantive policies, with a welcome simplicity of tone, without sacrificing analytical rigour. Where other books can place too much emphasis on the constitutional elements, it places similar weight on the economic dimensions of the EU, particularly its new digital market. The author’s standing as both a scholar and practising lawyer infuses the book with a practical tone, taking the subject out of the abstract and into the everyday, allowing for students’ full engagement. Its approach and tone will map particularly well on continental courses, where the next generation of EU lawyers are emerging from. This is a landmark publication in the field of EU law teaching.
Daniel Sarmiento is Professor of EU and Administrative Law, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
1. Theories and Evolution of European Integration2. Definition, Values and Reform of the Union3. The Institutions, Bodies, Offices and Agencies of the Union4. The Vertical Distribution of Powers: Competence of the Union5. The Horizontal Distribution of Powers: Legal Basis, Delegation and Differentiation6. Citizenship and Fundamental Rights7. The Sources of Union Law (i)8. The Sources of Union Law (ii)9. Union Law in National Legal Systems (i) - Applicability and Direct Effect10. Union Law in National Legal Systems (ii) – Primacy11. Judicial Protection in the European Union (i)12. Judicial Protection in the European Union (ii)13. The Internal Market (i) - The Fundamental Freedoms14. The Internal Market (ii) - The Fundamental Freedoms15. The Internal Market (iii) - Competition and State Aid16. The Union’s External Action17. Economic and Monetary Union18. The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice