Legal Constraints on EU Member States in Drafting Accession Agreements

Narin Idriz is a researcher and co-leader of the Global Europe project at the T.M.C. Asser Institute where she specializes in EU external relations law. Narin has Master degrees in International Human Rights Law (Essex University) and European Business Law (Leiden University). She worked as a PhD fellow at the Europa Institute of Leiden University where she defended her doctoral thesis in May 2015. Before joining the T.M.C. Asser Institute in September 2017, Narin worked as an Assistant Professor in the European Law department of Utrecht University. She is currently a member of the Human Rights Committee of the Advisory Council on International Affairs to the Dutch government and parliament.

• 1. General Introduction.- Part I: Legal Constraints flowing from EEC-Turkey Association Law. 2. Association as a stepping-stone to membership.- 3. The Ankara Association Law.- Part II: Legal Constraints Flowing from the Accession Process. 4. Procedural Constraints.- 5. Substantive Constraints.- Part III: Legal Constraints Flowing from the Constitutional Foundations of the Union. 6. Constitutional Foundations of the Union as a Constraint on Primary Law Making.- 7. The Principle of Equality as Part of the Constitutional Foundations of the Union: A Case Study.- 8. General Conclusion.